Will the possible lack of MP support affect your decision to buy Civ 3?

[blackice]

Put another way if you did not have a sucky connection or are planning to upgrade would you not want a complete game? Or is it complete AI and all Make it complete please wishy washy we have seen already...

[Deity Dude]

Where did this rumor come from and how reliable is it. I won't buy it w/o multiplayer. Whats the point - we'll have the AI figured out in about a month - then it will be all about gimmicks.

[korn469]

Deity Dude

i don't think that this rumor will pan out...but if it does then it is like a dark cloud on the horizon

[TCO]

Originally posted by Rasputin



I am not advocating DL the Game I am advocating Stealing the Patch... No game not Software should be released and then have people have to pay for the patches !!!! The fact that they know the players want MP they think they can charge what they want....

I hope any software programmer reasding this takes note and releases bug free programmes or free patches.. Dont remove part of the software because you not sure if it will work or not and then charge more for it .....

Geeze Ras...are you this childish? Firaxis has every right to sell the game SP and then charge for MP. Just like they have every right to charge $200 for the game. If you don't like it, don't buy it. if you pirate it, you're a theif. And a miserable self-justifying whiney little spoiled computer geek of a thief.

[SlowwHand]

SP is so easy compared to MP.
You SP players are sheltered babies.

[monkspider]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
SP is so easy compared to MP.
You SP players are sheltered babies.

Obviously

[aaglo]

I propably wouldn't even have time for MP, so SP will do fine for me. I know it

[Hydey]

I would still buy the game as long as I know that MP is coming . I always play the games single player before advancing on to humans.

[Tiberius]

Hot-seat

I'm not really interested in MP, so a SP only version is OK for me.

On the other hand, a hot-seat feature would be nice!

[Guynemer]

SP is so easy compared to MP.

You SP players are sheltered babies.

Gosh Slowwhand, when you put it that way... by gum, you're right. I can't believe I've been wasting my time with SP, when I could be playing MP with such pleasant, friendly people like yourself. I've been such a fool.

Troll.

[SlowwHand]

SP is bush league.

[FrostyBoy]

I never play MP, but I know bad publicity. Once you look bad in the eyes of the players, your future sales with future games will drop and continue to drop until you are bankrupt. This is exactly what has been happening to so many other game developers out there just recently.

Firaxis, all I will say to you now is that us gamers are not stupid at all. You need to DO good in order to LOOK good, if you don't look good, then I can guarantee you now, you will lose respect, very very quickly. No respect = No money.

The gaming industry is rapidly changing, especially the players themselves, their attitudes towards games can change within a matter of a few news snippets and word of mouth. Suddenly you have the majority of the gamers on the Internet laughing and KNOWING what that company is now like - and from the Internet to the rest of the world.

I don't play MP at all, I never think of it. But that is totally irrelevant. If you can't include MP in a FULL RELEASE of CIV3, and then THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY with selling MP as an 'addon'. - WELL, you'd be lucky to get away with that, VERY LUCKY. - This is like firing a gun at Firaxis and hoping there's no bullet inside.


I can think of one company that I respect most and that is Blizzard. I don't even play their games or take interest in the type of stuff they produce. But I RESPECT them. Whenever I hear Blizzard, I ALREADY KNOW its going to be good. This is the BEST type of publicity you could ask for. If I was interested in Orcs, goblins, rts, etc I would actually buy their games, all of them!

But I would never buy anyone else's, because I simply don't respect and trust that they deliver good software. I will just download it to be safe. Because who wants to buy a bad game? YOU?
Do I feel guilty about it? Hell No! I want to rid the world of bad game developers and support the good. Who wouldn't?

It makes me believe that Blizzards PR guy/girl is probably just some nobody who knows lots of people and never studied PR in his/her life. - The Best PR person you could get. Like I said, we're not stupid.

Bottom line, Civ3 without MP is like a TV with one channel and then expecting us to buy another TV just to get a second channel.

[lockstep]

Originally posted by Sn00py
If you can't include MP in a FULL RELEASE of CIV3, and then THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY with selling MP as an 'addon'. - WELL, you'd be lucky to get away with that, VERY LUCKY.

Perhaps I´m too optimistic, but there´s also the possibility that Firaxis releases a MP upgrade as a free patch.

[Mahdimael]

I'm not too concerned about multiplayer. I'd much rather have an innovative style of MP a month later than the same boring 15-hour game MP that's available. MP doesn't work with TBS in most cases.

I forget who posted earlier, but they're correct. I don't need 12 year olds kicking me from a game because I don't trade them iron, or people dropping connections when they start losing or whatever. I'd prefer the computer. Civ1, Civ2, MOO, Star Control 2..all my favorite games, and none had network multiplayer. I don't need to wait 10 minutes for the one guy who's idled out.

Even if it does ship with MP, I probably won't use it much, if at all.