I've been very supportive of Stardock's efforts over the course of this game, but this is the first time I'm going to raise a stink and openly disagree with you and hope to change your mind on this issue. And I'll approach it in a mature way.

Dash confirmed earlier today that the AI will be able to use the new Demigods, but we cannot. This is completely absurd. Its one thing to be testing for bugs, which post release is not the community's job, but that of QA. But balancing is something GPG can handle. Its their property. Why are you doing this? Adding content we cannot use, but only play against? It would be like saying the Zerg are AI only and we can only play as Terran and Protoss.

GPG did a tremendous job of balancing Demigod out of the box. In recent memory, no strategy game has been as balanced as Demigod.

Community beta testing for GPG is holding their hands through this process. When it comes to balancing in Demigod, I actually have complete trust in the context of Demigod. At this point in Demigod's ongoing development, its almost saying you don't trust the people who made the guys.

We don't want to wait another 3-4 weeks while the AI is using the Demigods, and no one else can. I understand you want to use Ready to Play to contact Demigod community members. But my suggestion is to skip this step, update Impulse with the DLC version, and make them available to the public. This is taking way too long.

We can handle skipping the Ready to Play beta testing, trust me.