Holy S***! NO Multiplayer Until Spring!

[Gramphos]

I go for 5: There will be no developer update this week. They will just update Civ of the Week

[Leonidas]

It's been three days since this "rumour" about no MP. Yet Firaxis has said nothing.

Their silence is deafening - no denial would presumably mean no MP this fall. . .

[Robert]

I think they don't react because they don't care about all those rumors.

conversation at Firaxis:

employee 1: Geeeez, those idiots at apolyton right now claim that we won't put MP in civ3 immediately ! Where do they get it from ???

employee 2: ignore them and let them chill out.

in other words, silence doesn't automaticly mean confirmed.
It just means that it was a rumor, is a rumor and will stay a rumor for a little longer.

[tniem]

But when asked where they got that from they have to answer their own P.R. person so there is some truth in the rumors.

So if it wan't truth then they should have said something by now.

[Alexander's Horse]

Firaxis better clarify this ASAP

[Leonidas]

4th day and still no word. . .

[Rasputin]

i wrote them a nice email and didnt even get a response

[tniem]

Originally posted by Rasputin
i wrote them a nice email and didnt even get a response

Hard to believe it was 'nice' email coming from you Rasputin .

[Sabre2th]

I sent Mike a very polite PM and no answer. It appears that Firaxis is ignoring it. I haven't decided yet if that's good or bad.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Sabre2th
I sent Mike a very polite PM and no answer. It appears that Firaxis is ignoring it. I haven't decided yet if that's good or bad.

Its bad, very deffinatly bad.

We can all be certain that Firaxis knows we are all paniking here about the rumor. They know that panic among the players will only hurt them. If our rumor was untrue they'd quickly come here and set us straight to prevent our panic from doing harm to their reputation. They've done this in the past with other rumors.

It has been many days since this broke, and they have said nothing. No reponse at all. They are allowing the speculation, panic and rumor to persist, obviously the know the truth is even worse.

I can see no logic in ignoring us if we are wrong. I can only imagine we are being avoided because we are right and they are afraid to admit it.

[Inverse Icarus]

too true.

we should start a complete false rumor and see hwo quickly they react.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
I can see no logic in ignoring us if we are wrong. I can only imagine we are being avoided because we are right and they are afraid to admit it.

well, the country is in a state of war after certain events but who cares about these insignificant things, right?

i'm guess they'll have something on tomorrow's update, but then again that's just a guess

[isaac brock]

I agree that they will probably talk about it next update.

Also, if someone trivializes this thread by comparing it in importance to the events of Tuesday, more power to them. Unfortunately, though, you are not a lone fanatic such as myself, you are the administrator. When YOU say it doesn't really matter because it isn't as important as the world trade center, you might as well close up all the threads. If we are losing an argument, we could all say "it isn't important anyway" but that would defeat the purpose of argument. This attack not only kills thousands and horrifies millions, it is stopping the American (and canadian) ways of life. We should continue living life like before, because otherwise terror has won

Also this kind of reminds me of the pointless civ 3 arguments we've had:

By the way this is from the onion, undoubtedly america's finest news source.

Sci-Fi Fans Argue The Better Of Two As-Yet-Unreleased Films
TULSA, OK— Science-fiction fans Pete Carver and Matthew Wynne disagreed sharply Monday on the relative merits of Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone and The Fellowship Of The Ring, neither of which hits theaters for months. "The storyboards for the Quidditch tournament I saw on this one web site look terrible," said the pro-Tolkien Carver. "There's no way that scene can be better than I've heard the Balrog one is." Wynne countered that the set design for the Great Hall of Hogwarts set "will completely blow away" that of the Mines of Moria.

[TCO]

That in no way is an unbeleiveable joke. We had the exact same behavior with SMAC and CTP.

[isaac brock]

I don't think its unbelievable, but should the administrator of a civ site be saying theres no reason to talk about civ after stopping wtc threads? It's curious that he should be keeping the community from continuing with their lives