To say he is busy is an obscene understatement He is always on the forums though, just maybe some more than others.

Mike

Elemental my dear Watson.

Damn, I'm like 3 posts too late to be kinda funny.

I'm sorry for the way I am.

That's pretty good!

I'm around.  I'm just deep in code these days.

I still love Demigod.

And I will keep exerting influence on GPG to let us include mods and get things changed and updated over time in Demigod.

Plus, I have the Impulse team working on virtual lobbies and such (think overlays) so that we can do other stuff.

In another few weeks you should see an announcement on what is possible with this tech in ways that I think will make people very happy.

This makes me one seriously happy camper at the moment.

My biggest objection is to Demigod is that there are almost 40,000 people playing HoN right now, while there are 85 playing Demigod.

Maybe release like, cataract, QoT and Regulas as free content to entice people to play!  Please... do... something besides cash checks.

I like the sound of that. Is it possible we might see such in an expansion, perhaps developed by a different development house since GPG is knee-deep in Supreme Commander 2 and that Knights & Castles (??) game? Maybe contract a European developer to tackle that.

And more maps. Items. Demigods.

Grin.

We don't really have any say on that.  Demigod is GPG's game.  Stardock just publishes it and only in North America (and digitally) at that.

Much of the work we've been doing with things like overlays has been to try to find ways to extend Demigod that doesn't involve GPG doing anything.  The work we're doing will first show up in Elemental but what I want us to be able to do is let people set up lots of different games.

As for HoN having zillions of players, my understanding is that it's in beta and is free.  And frankly speaking, both HoN and LoL have much better multiplayer match making features than Demigod does. I prefer Demigod as a game, but it really needs better online features to be competitive in that area imo. 

I also prefer Demigod as a game to HoN by a longshot.  Which is why it's so frustrating that all my e-friends play HoN while I'm stuck trying to get a decent Demigod game for an hour. ;(

I also agree that it's because it's free right now (due to the extended beta), which is why I'm suggesting making part of Demigod free.
The online features can come after there are online players to actually use them.

This is one of the main things that is hurting demigod right now. The others being lag, connection issues and crashes. If these things were fixed it might be possible to revive Demigod. Unfortunately all my Demigod friends are now playing LoL and it will be very hard to get them to come back. The only way I think a Demigod revival will work is if we get a sequel that has none of the issues Demigod currently has.

Frogboy, there are definitely crashes to desktop that are on Demigod's end. If you play a 5v5 about 80% of the time someone will randomly drop while loading, and the other 20% someone gets an unhandled exception.