There are several post about Ventrillo (voice chat servers) that accept decent players with the right attitude. These are what you call premades, just people who got togheter to play.

This game is all about team work and premade's are this games future, not pub/pugs.

Join one m8t, its a much richer game experince. You can still lose, ofc you can. But the chance that somebody just bought the game, or leaves when he/she dies a frustrating death is slim.

Adapt, and enjoy.

XUCH

I wonder how on earth the ragers suggest people to learn playing the ame mulitplaye if we are not allowed to join mulitplayer games.

Playing against the AI is not a way to lern how to beat a human team in this game.

I am pretty new to this game, still in the majority of games I have played my teammate has just quittet without a word after a little while. Probably becasue I have done something he consideres unwise.

And I am left to fight alongside a AI against 2 humans. Ofc that ends with loss.

I never joins games labeled "Only pro'" and suchh. just normal games.

Get 'em Z!

Nope, just a game. Not enough depth to be a hobby. If you have RTS experience, in 1 month you can learn the tricks on the 5 popular maps, learn how to use every dg, learn all of the items, learn all of the favors, learn all of the cit upgrades.

Now, with replays and this forum, learning is even quicker.

Next step is to make a pre, but once you do that, you realize that other pre's won't want to play other organized teams, they prefer to smash pugs because ladder ranking = how many games you can mass, not how good are the players that you beat. Then you find yourself smashing pugs, then it's boring.

Whereas starcraft / warcraft / whatever... guys live in houses together, train 10 hours a day, and play the game for 10 years straight.......... that's probably more than a hobby, that's a lifestyle, but yeah there's not enough depth yet.

Maybe with 2 more demigods, some new maps, new favors, new items, and ladder matchmaking service, it could take 2 months to learn everything...... but yeah not much if you already know how to maneuver you way around a mouse and keyboard.

There's no dexterity involved. You just have 1 unit to control. The only thing you can improve is your decision making ability (knowing the matchups, maps, items, favors, DG's) which comes from experience which is how many games you play.

Cant a game be a hobby ?

To me demigod is a game, but it something fails at procuring me a good gaming experience (because of some crashs, because of some players, because of some lag).

I agree with playground legend : theres only a few 'pure' skill involved in demigod (not so true when it comes to micromanage minions from a general, because the game makes micromanaging hard). And thats exactly why I love this game, and I think it is a volunteer move from the developpers.