According to their Day one status report, Gas Powered Games has seen 120,000 users logging on to play their new strategy release, Demigod. Unfortunately for them, not all of these members are legitimate, in fact, out of the 120,000 connections seen, roughly 18,000 are legitimate copies.

Comments from the official blog state, “we spent a lot of time today  trying to isolate out the warez users from the legitimate users (it would require a lot of surgery to actually break them and even if we did, there’d be no friendly “ha ha pirate” message which would result in people just saying the game is buggy).  Mind you, the game makes relatively few server calls, it’s just the sheer number of people.”