It's officially official: NO MULTIPLAYER

[ixnay]

From the updated FAQ on civ3.com:

Will there be multiplayer support for Civ III?
Civ III will not be shipping with multiplayer included. The single-player experience has always been our main focus throughout the development of Civilization III. However, we're working on some cool multiplayer concepts that will take a fresh approach to the challenge of making multiplayer for a turn-based game fun. Once we have more details to report, they'll be posted on this FAQ.

So there you go.

[Pembleton]

Re: It's officially official: No MP

Originally posted by ixnay37
From the updated FAQ on civ3.com:

Will there be multiplayer support for Civ III?
Civ III will not be shipping with multiplayer included. The single-player experience has always been our main focus throughout the development of Civilization III. However, we're working on some cool multiplayer concepts that will take a fresh approach to the challenge of making multiplayer for a turn-based game fun. Once we have more details to report, they'll be posted on this FAQ.

So there you go.

Nah, Cybershy will still find a way around it. Even after the game is released, he will still desperately try to find the MP *button* for weeks until it is not found.

Even though it may say *no MP* on the box, although my guess is that they just won't mention anything at all, he will claim it's a typo and if you look hard enough, that MP is really in the game.

[jones]

I expect a free third-party PBEM ``enabler'' will appear soon after the game hits shelves.

[VetLegion]

what a way to say it

[ColdWizard]

i wish they could've answered sooner, but i'm glad they did answer.

thanks for posting it ixnay, as i wouldn't have seen it otherwise (i don't go to civ3.com much anymore)

[Gramphos]

They will probably have MP strings at least (as in Colonization and Original Civilization II)

[Ironwood]

Well, what do you expect? Civ1 had no multiplayer, but Civ Multiplayer shipped later. Despite this, Civ2 came out with no multiplayer. Multiplayer didn't arrive until the second to last update. SMAC may have had multiplayer, but SMAC wasn't intended to be a huge enduring legacy, but an "all at once" kind of game (or at least, that's my impression). Now, surprise surprise, Civ3 has no multiplayer. I imagine Civ3 Multiplayer Gold Edition will hit the shelves in a few years.

If you ask me, it's good they focused on simply making Civ great, rather than bowing to the wishes of the multiplayer community.

[Zeppy]

I have to admit I am more than a little bummed about this news. Although, it is good to know the real story at last.

At least they made sure that the SP was in good shape. God help them if the AI or SP isn't very good. We may forgive the no MP thing, but if they screw up the parts that were being focused on instead of MP, they will be in the deepest of dung.

[LoD]

Hey, if you wan't someone to organize a protest to have MP included in Civ3, I'm your man .

[Ozymandous]

Originally posted by Ironwood


If you ask me, it's good they focused on simply making Civ great, rather than bowing to the wishes of the multiplayer community.

Not trying to start another uber thread about SP vs. MP, but I don't understand the logic that says "if a game has MP then SP will suck".

Since when does a game have to for-go MP to have a good SP experience or have an abysmal SP story, etc, if it has MP?

There are games that have both. Granted they are relatively few and far between, but these two items/issues are NOT mutually exclusive.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by LoD
Hey, if you wan't someone to organize a protest to have MP included in Civ3, I'm your man .

You could have all those Poles go to the bug report page over at www.firaxis.com and report no MP in Civ3, but that would just slow the MP progress down as they have to read all reports.

I say let them work alone, and let noone in nor out until MP is ready . Also have Mark to ban all of them from Apolyton

Actually I don't care. I can afford buying more then one game, and I’d play SP from the beginning anyway. (But it would be empty without all that money.)

[player1]

Originally posted by jones
I expect a free third-party PBEM ``enabler'' will appear soon after the game hits shelves.

If you think for something like civhack for Civ2, I hope you are right.
Still, since CHEAT-MODE is gone I don't know the way to change techs between human players in that kind of game (in HOTSEAT of course).

[DanS]

Booooo!!!!!!

Perfidious Firaxis.

[Mars]

Oh well. it will come eventaully.

i'm surprised barely anyone has posted on this thread

[dainbramaged13]

Well, its already been discussed so much, that everyone i( including me) is tired of it. except of course for uberkrux, and his annoying-ass multiplayer posts