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Demigod, the first in the recent wave of DotA inspirations, looks doomed to spiral down the path of extinction. Recent server population statistics show that there rarely are more than a 1000 players online at any given time, and to make matters worse… it’s averaging less then 40 games being played at its peak times.
With Heroes of Newerth and League of Legends on the horizon, could this be the first casualty in the DotA clone war?
I’ve played 50+ games, and I must admit I really enjoyed Demigod *ahem*. It was my first foray into the DotA game style. Unfortunately, after playing for a few months, the P2P issues, international player connection issues (if you attempt to connect internationally, you’ll lag and ruin the game for everyone else), and the lack of community generally spoiled the game for me.
Nonetheless, two new Demigods are set to launch shortly, but I fear it may already be too late for a recovery.
Source: Demigod Server Stats
Curtis Takaichi
Looks like they need to pull a World of Goo and have a “Name-Your-Own-Price” sale. That sold 57,000 games in one week!
October 21st, 2009 at 2:33 am
James O’Connor
A friend of mine just bought this the other day. Hope it doesn’t go and die on him!
October 21st, 2009 at 3:27 am
titan7000
While it will be a shame if the game does go down relatively soon after its launch I can’t say that I am surprised really. I bought the game like most people since it was extremely beautiful game and a drastic improvement over the dota game play that inspired it. I have to say though that after around 3-4 weeks I was basically done with the game since I had done basically everything in the game by that point. If they want to avoid failing they will need to find a new “hook” to get players back like introducing two new classes or something along those lines.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:34 am
Anon
I played this at the start when the network issues broke the online play. Then I played it again 2 weeks ago… same issues, same boring and non-linear game play. The game was doomed from the beginning, I’d be trying to get my money back if I was your friend James.
October 21st, 2009 at 5:21 am
Austin Sutton-Jennings
Only 1000 people, that’s less than you’ll find on games that are almost 10 years old like CS
October 21st, 2009 at 5:26 am
Shawn Evans
This is disappointing to hear. I wonder if a DotA style game would do any better of the consoles. It would take some effort to convert the control scheme over properly, but I think it could be done.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:46 am
James Pinnell
@titan
I agree, its an extremely basic game. Even though I loved it on release, I found it hard to get excited over time to keep playing.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:09 am
Spooky
Colin Robinson got some of his facts wrong. The Demigod stats are tracked here btw.: http://dgstats.insidesupcom.de/
October 21st, 2009 at 7:17 pm
leo
played it for 1 hour, then threw it in the corner. most-boring cheap crap ever. where are the grand role playing games today? the last decent thing was neverwinter nights 2+addon, then the wave of stupid wow-like massive damage games hit in and every game i look into proves to be boring nonsense for kids where you just have to press as many buttons as quickly as possible. guess i’ll have to install planescape again…
November 1st, 2009 at 10:04 pm