It's officially official: NO MULTIPLAYER

[Mister Pleasant]

Told you so . . .

[Robert]

c'mon, those Firaxis guys are kidding on us !
They're having a hard laugh, while the game will just ship with MP !

They tricked you into it, this time, didn't they ?
Hey, nothing to worry about, there will be MP ! Immediately !

[after said this CyberShy opens his window, presses the 'submit' button and.........................]

[Mars]

Sorry but i don't think it's a joke. There's no MP, sorry but its true. It'll come though, just have to wait 6 months

[CobraA1]

Hopefully, the new AI (rewritten completely, BTW) should be much better than the old one . . . Maybe it'll keep us busy until MP comes out.

At least we know more now than before, but it took them long enough . Now the forums are filled with MP vs SP, and we've got at least a dozen threads that are specifically about the issue.

I'm getting sick of the issue myself.

Quit whining, for heaven's sake! It's not the end of the world, and you'll be able to get it soon enough.

[Robert]

Sorry but i don't think it's a joke. There's no MP, sorry but its true. It'll come though, just have to wait 6 months

you REALLY think it's not a joke ?
C'mon, they're joking all the time on civ3.com !
In fact the whole civ3-hype is one big joke !
You really expect civ3 to exist ?

nah, MP exists, but civ3 ? naaaaaaah.
they're kidding us ! read my lips !

[VetLegion]

You re losing it Cyber

btw, anyone remembers that someone asked before that now with civ3 they should release civ2 code?

well, if this turns out to be a total disaster (which I doubt) we can try to beg out old code (surely there wont be ToT2. right? right?? ) from whoever has it, fix the few notorious stupidities, implement culture and resources ....

watch out firaxis, we re not harmless!

[Al'Kimiya]

there will be MP...

why else...

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5043

[ixnay]

Umm....that thread was from March...a lot has changed since then

[Wittlich]

Ok so CIV3 will ship without MP capability. Am I disappointed? You bet. Am I devastated? Hardly.

I guess I will use this six-month window before the release of CIV3 Multiplayer Gold - Yes, I full-heartedly believe it will be a game you have to buy (HIT: NOT a download), to brush-up on the inner workings of the Single Player CIV3 game. But hey, this IS America and there are dollars to be made in this game...it's just the nature of the business. Life does and will go on...

[markusf]

Originally posted by Ozymandous


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.

Your about as clueless as they come... I have programmed enough games/applications to know that multiplayer/multiuser support is a trivial thing to add. The only reason they won't add it is a, the game is so buggy there is no way it would work. B. They are trying to milk the consumer. I am inclinded to go with A. They haven't released a single product that was even close to stable, i doubt this will be any different. I guess master of orion 3 is the only game worth waiting for. (civ in space) at least they will include multiplayer!

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by ixnay37
Umm....that thread was from March...a lot has changed since then

It is actually form March last year, and as I said before I believe that they have made those screens already, but not made the MP code.

[pithorr]

It seems to be SUICIDE...

[LoD]

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.

Oh yeah .


Seriously now - in my personal view it is appalling that Civ3 will ship without MP. It is the standard in all modern games, especially strategic. Why strategic? Because, now matter how hard they try, they will not write an AI that would provide for a formidable opponent to a skilled player, without having it cheat.
And, although I'm only an amateur programmer, I can safely say that including an MP feature in the days of DirectX is simple. As markusf suggests, they are trying to make us pay for it, or rather for a future expansion containing it. And I'm not accusing Firaxis without any basis - they have shown how bad their Costumer Relations politics are in the case of SMAC/X.
BTW, I'm betting diamonds against chesnuts that every in every gaming magazine review this will be mentioned as a huge flaw.
Finally - Firaxis, change your attitude towards your customers! If you were forced into this by the distributor, resist! If you were not, reconsider!

[Solver]

Yeees! Celebrate! I'm really happy about lack of multiplayer in the game, and I'm not joking about this.

[LoD]

Admit it. You feel relieved there won't be any need for another PBEM ladder .