Do you really believe civ3 will be shipped without Multiplayer support ?

[Robert]

Let's be honest, I just don't believe civ3 won't have MP out of the box.
I have a few reasons for this:

- They have officialy stated many times that civ3 would have MP out of the box. (literary)
- If they will have to break their promise, would they do that by emailing just one person, rather than making it a public announcement
- Games like this that will be shipped these days without MP support will for sure get very bad critics
- There isn't any official statement that backs up the idea that the game will be released without MP.

but what do you think..........
is this - no MP out of the box - rumor a hoax or reality ?

[Gramphos]

I hope that all this just is rumors, and that Civ 3 will ship with Multiplayer. Firaxis has said in there FAQ that the game will come with multiplayer all the time, and I don't believe they will change that. (Unless they had enough preorders already )

Still I'm not 100% sure to be realistic.

[Inverse Icarus]

hope and belief are two entities.

i HOPE it ships, but it is QUITE FEASIBLE that it wont.

[MidKnight Lament]

I like to think of myself as more of a glass-half-full guy, but the signs are definitely not good. I don't think we're going to get it out of the box, and when we do get it, yes, we will have to pay for it.

I don't even play MP very much, but I'm pretty disappointed if the rumours turn out to be true. To have good MP-ability a game needs to be built that way from scratch. Adding it later simply is not as good. And it is indeed a bad omen for other parts of the game.

I'm hoping we're worrying over nothing, but I fear that's not the case.

[manofthehour]

Also on Amazon.com they are advertising Civ3 and one of the features is a multiplayer mode. Why would they tell someone in an email and not someone trying to sell there product?

[Slax]

Originally posted by manofthehour
Also on Amazon.com they are advertising Civ3 and one of the features is a multiplayer mode. Why would they tell someone in an email and not someone trying to sell there product?

Oh, gee, I don't know, .............$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ?

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Slax
Oh, gee, I don't know, .............$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ?

If Firaxis informed Amazon that there was MP in Civ 3, but then released Civ 3 without this feature, then Firaxis could be sued... costing mega$$$$$$$$...

[monkspider]

Here's the good word from www.amazon.com

"Full set of integrated, multiplayer options "

Would they really advertise this if the multiplayer won't be available until spring?

Here's the link

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-6854269-1246205

[tniem]

But if MP was going to be included then why don't they just say so. It has been over two days. They have to have heard us by now and still no official word one way or the other. That makes me tend to believe the rumors are probably correct.

[Robert]

maybe they're sick of all those apolyton rumors
and they don't want to show up every time we're running in fear around. After all they're not our nanny.

And besides that, it's weekend and on friday Dan must have been working on the civ3.com update

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by CyberShy
maybe they're sick of all those apolyton rumors
and they don't want to show up every time we're running in fear around. After all they're not our nanny.

Yes, it took them a while to stop the rumor about Nationalism being a government, why would them like to stop a rumor like this quick? It stops us from complaining on other things

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Gramphos
Yes, it took them a while to stop the rumor about Nationalism being a government, why would them like to stop a rumor like this quick? It stops us from complaining on other things

LOL No, not *another* conspiracy theory regarding Firaxis

[Ralf]

Take a good look at the pre-released game-setup screenshoot. Is ther a button somewhere leading to a secondary multiplayer-screen? Now, where would they put a link to this optional MP-screen, if not in a player setup-screen? Above isnt "proof" of course - but its beginning to look like MP is destined to be delayed, and instead added to the expected expansion-pack. And is that such a terrible thing? Im sure they put the delay into good use.

[Gramphos]

Interesting results. It seems to show that we have no clue.
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It follows the theoretic result of what this would be, and shows that we don't have a clue.

[Robert]

[quote]Ralf: Is ther a button somewhere leading to a secondary multiplayer-screen?[quote]

There has never been such a link, not even when they were still intended to include MP months ago.............
I assume MP can be behind "new game"

When you select "New game" the next options appear:
- random world
- earth game
- custom earth
- scenario
- multiplayer

or something.