Awbee

Hopefully a yay for proxies and a big yay for Frogboy and his team.

You guys must have your own starbucks in your building. If not I guess that would be a good investment :P Thanks for the updates.

Just wanted to add my 2 cents I have nearly the same setup as the OP just I have a Geforce 8800 GTS 640 mb or something like that and a core 2 duo e6700. And I have the same problem the game runs fine in single player no matter how many bots or which map but in mp. The game perfomance goes down to like 30-40%. I know that the hardware has to work different because of the network components but it shouldn't weight this heavy on the system.

Does that mean the proxy servers might be ready for the monday update?

Great news! Not just because its awesome for you guys but like ToJKa said, it proves that DRM is just a costly way of screwing with your customer. I know this may be the wrong thread for it but any new info on the planned "betapatch/patch" for today?

[quote who="zooplibob" reply="18" id="2169528"] Then why are they charging $50 for it? If you are going to concede that they are a crappier company, then they should be charging $5 for the game. Then I wont be complaining. But if they charge the same as Blizzard for a game that doesnt work, they have no excuses. Reading these journal entries, it sounds like a group of friends working on a late night project before the deadline. Taking the weekend off is by no means a "well des

[quote who="zooplibob" reply="5" id="2168146"]This is the biggest noob company I've ever dealt with. As a DOTA player for 2 years, I've come to expect the quality and reliability from Blizzard and the DOTA map designers. I never hear them whining about taking a weekend off leaving a game unplayable that so many people have already paid for. The best word to describe my entire experience with this company is "unprofessional." I'd understand if some of my friends we

[quote who="MrPipe" reply="12" id="2164227"] EDIT: Quote from fatalend: There's alot of strategy that goes into buying base upgrades vs. personal items. When you have your priests, angels, and catapults rolling through, and you're stuck at war rank 8 and your opponent is war rank 10 and gets giants and you have no way to counter, it's over. Like other people already stated this is not true.

Its definitly a bug that occurs on nearly every ability. It is really annoying if you can't save a teammate because your character decides to watch him/her die.

Usually the legit games have the version number mentioned in the channel description.

I agree with DoKTa_T. Not enough legit players are using this tool and way too many pirates aren't capable of reading chan descriptions :P. About the concerns with Vista and Gameranger. I'm using Vista 64bit and have no problems with Gameranger and this game. Sometimes it crashen when the host is starting the game but thats like 1 out of 10 times. And slightly off-topic: Sorry about the screenshoted Game dokta_t. Luckily the bug was gone after the next game start. <p

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="2166774"]Anyway guys, seriuosly, I'm going home now. I'm not going to be online this weekend. [/quote] And don't dare to work at home, same goes for your employees!

I agree with what the others are saying. Your status reports are really great. They were a huge factor for me in deciding if I should buy this game or not. Sure I love this game but your company finally treats customers like... customers even after people bought the game. I really hope you guys continue on doing what you are doing in form of community communication.

[quote who="HorseRadish" reply="12" id="2164031"] Yes some great matches and my Teammate Dalzk you the Man!!!!!!![/quote] Now seeing you guys comming as far as you did I feel half as bad about losing *jk* Hope there will be more Cups in the future it was fun.

[quote who="CariElf" reply="19" id="2162303"]We are also very close to fixing the favor point bugs. The new queuing system that we're working on will make the NAT code a lot better as it will eliminate a lot of the timing issues, and the proxy servers will allow you to connect to people you previously wouldn't have been able to connect to so getting into a game should go much more smoothly. As for those of you who cannot connect to the facilitator at all, we're wor

They have a clock displayed on their site I guess you can just add/substract the difference between your and their timezone.

The most important thing is not to win but to participate. :D

Me and my friends are currently using Gameranger and its really a great solution for now. Getting a game running is relatively stressless except for the pirates who are too stupid to read channel descriptions even if they say "original/legit version only .93" but well.

Still Simspeed sometimes works pretty odd. I have a fairly decent pc and can run the game smoothly with everything maxed till the last moments of the battle even with a mass amount of Units on the screen. (Nearly no fps drop). Yet my simspeed is pending between 3 and 5. Now in different games people accuse me of lagging their game because of my low sim speed (we all have low pings 50-80), because mine is displayed as the lowest. Sometimes there is some kind of frequent lag in onlin

I usually miss it when people use the chat because of the fontcolor. The Game is so bright so the white is easy to miss most of the time. When its time for the "gg" I usually see how many senteces/questions I have missed :P