Mike Breitkreutz, now you're here, can you please say something about MP ?

[Robert]

Mike,
(mr Breitkreutz in this ocasion since we need you sooo much and stay polite for that reason )

can you please give us some information about multiplayer in civ3 ?
Will there indeed be no multiplayer ?
I see you're around right now. (big brother is watching you )

please say at least something ( "we don't know yet" or "I can't tell you yet") so we wouldn't feel that ignored anymore......

CyberShy and 10,000 other apolytoners (and 9,999 that is)

[Robert]

too late,
he's gone already

[Rasputin]

apathy

they obviosuly dont care

[Robert]

tomorrow there's a dev update.
if there's still no word about MP...... than even *I* will start to be woried.

[Leonidas]

It is odd that nothing has been said about MP

[Inverse Icarus]

because there is no multiplayer.

[Steve Clark]

UberKruX, will you stop using that signature, you realize that it was a complete fake, don't you?

Firaxis will announce the details of Civ3 MP at the time they feel it's best.

[Sabre2th]

I sent a nice little PM to Mike about this when he was on yesterday. No answer at all.

[faded glory]

Hey guys,



Im very angry at all this. There is like a cloud of conspiracy and denial around this wole MP issue. A Viel of secrecy and code of silence. Nobody from firaxis is saying anything, and people are speculating everything.

If firaxis does not address MP. I will not buy this game. i refuse, after what happened too CTP2!!!

They pulled the plug on the MP patch because of sales plummeting

[SITS]

When is the last time a Firaxisian posted?

[dainbramaged13]

A long while ago...

I was here a couple months ago, and i started a thread on colonies, which racked up 3 responses from a firaxian (and a mention and interactive animation about colonies on the civ3 site) and the mood was swell. There were many other threadsback then that were also being answered. Since then, there have been less and less answers to our questions. I have two theories as to why this is so, and they are not alternatives, but rather two things workign together.
a). i think that people on apolyton kept getting inflamed about firaxian responses, and even yelling at the firaxians to do this and do that, which kept them from giving us any sort of news, and discouraged them from posting at all. and
b). i think that kelly gilmore may have gotten in a bit of trouble for emailing mister pleasant about the multiplayer issue, and this has discouraged also other firaxians from saying anything, in fear that they too will get in trouble for releasing information that they were not authorized to do so.

the one thing I cant understand is the fact that they havent said anything on their site about the multiplayer. They should let their fans know, in at least SOME way, that there will be no multiplayer, and with some RATIONAL explanation to stop the flaming, or there will be even more falming when the game comes out with no notification. after all, there is such a thing as pre-orders, and they might be returned without multiplayer, which would make the retailers mad, for firaxis told them multiplayer would be included.

[Leonidas]

If Firaxis could give us a definite answer, then at least these topics would die.

But their silence is deafening. . .

[tniem]

Originally posted by Leonidas
If Firaxis could give us a definite answer, then at least these topics would die.

Really all I want them to do. It is what they should do and should have done a long time.

[Swissy]

Since Firaxis will not reply I did some investigating.

MP was one of the"improvements" Firaxis talked up early in the game developement. No specifics, but the spin was "a fully integrated MP system". That WAS bullet point under game features at all the pre-oder sites. Now I look and find EBgames, Gamestop AND the Infogrames sites no longer mention MP. Only amazon has MP listed under games features. I will watch the Amazon pre-order page, but I already expect it to change some time soon. This will be our confirmation, if Amazon drops the MP reference from their pre-order site, MP is out.

[dexter4dxm]

Everything seems to be pointing towards the lack of multiplayer support.

Even look at Firaxis' response in the Civ3 FAQ:

"Will there be multiplayer support for Civ III?
We're working on some unique things with multiplayer, but we're not ready to start talking about it yet. It has always been challenging to make multiplayer really fun in turn-based games and we're looking at new ways of approaching that. "

Not ready to start talking about it yet? You've got to be kidding! The game is set to be released next month, and you're not ready to talk about multiplayer?! Many loyal, and I do mean loyal, Civ fans are vowing not to buy the game because of this b.s., and still, you aren't ready to talk about multiplayer. I sure as hell am not going to pay a single dime for this crap, even if multiplayer comes out 2 weeks after the game.

I still have hope that this whole thing is some sick joke, but every day that passes is making it look more and more like I'm setting myself up for dissapointment.