Well as you may have noticed, I'm posting again on the Demigod forums. The decision internally is that we're simply going to zap trolls in their tracks. No warnings. Just posting priviledges taken away.
As someone else pointed out, Demigod is a different type of game and it has a different demographic than say Sins of a Solar Empire. People who can't control themselves have plenty of other sites they can go to spew venom but here we're going to take a pretty hard line on discussion.
Most people haven't sat down and looked at why most game communities die off in the long run. I mean, really look at it.
That Demigod is going to continue to get updates for a very very long time will help. But also what will help is being able to communicate to every Demigod player out there. We've been, like others, waiting for the v1.2 builds to start coming out before really gearing things back up.
I consider the Replays a pretty big deal. But I also consider having more items (favor items and regular items) added to be as big of a deal as the new Demigods (others may disagree but if you want to keep the game fresh, we need to keep adding more items).
I also think that a lot more needs to be done over time to make it easy for people to get together and play the game easily. That's where things like Ready to Play are pretty important and will expand.
But none of this is going to happen on some tight time schedule. I see people claiming I'm "lying" simply because an ETA I received has come and gone. I can't speak for GPG but on Stardock's internal support schedule, we have Demigod prioritized until well into 2012 and that's with actual bonafide "improvements" that will materially affect the game.
