What is being done to handle the “jerk” factor in Demigod games?
This is a growing issue in online games. As a 38 year old guy who is married with 3 children, I can tell you that it really irritates me to go online after work and have my game ruined by by some kid whose being a jerk. That’s why we’ve been working on Ready to Play: The idea is that people set up a profile of what type of gamer they’re like and what types of people they like to play with and then when they launch a game (not just Demigod but TF2, L4D, WoW, DoW2, etc.) it will broadcast to their friends and their “recommended” friends who can then join them. This way, people can start to get games going with other people who share a similar idea of what is “fun” by doing some basic profile compatibility. Internally, we’ve had fantastic results with Ready to Play already, particularly in helping get groups together on older games (Rise of Legends being an example). Ready to Play is going to go into beta in September but we think Demigod players will particularly benefit from it.
