I see they lied about multi-player

[Metamorph]

What a surprise. The multi-player add-on for Civ3 will, in fact, cost money, despite promises to the contrary. Do I win a no-prize?

- Metamorph

[Blue Moose]

It is really strange...

Why didn't they just have a simplistic version of multiplayer in the original release? No simultaneous turns, but hotseat, lan, and so forth.....it doesn't seem to me that it would have been that hard to include. Then PTW would have just made it better.

-Moose

[zulu9812]

yes - this has been discussed to death on countless occasions. Time to stop trolling on this one!

[Blue Moose]

Ahh, I didn't know that (though I guess it isn't surprising).

-Moose

[Dinner]

Yes, a large capitalist company lied to us in order to squeeze ever possible cent out of us. The question is why are you surprised?

[ixnay]

Was MP ever actually promised? All I remember hearing was "We're working on some really cool multiplayer ideas; we'll give you more details later."

[JtheJackal]

Instead of giving us a simple, boring multiplayuer in a patch they give this huge complex really nice multiplayer game with a bunch of extras thrown in. How dare Firaxis!

[Blue Moose]

My comment on surprise was regarding how this issue has appearently been hashed out many times before.

Anyhow, they could have given us barely adequate multiplayer, and then improved. Not that it makes much difference at this point.

-Moose

[WarpStorm]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Yes, a large capitalist company lied to us in order to squeeze ever possible cent out of us. The question is why are you surprised?

What large capitalist company are you talking about? Not Firaxis, I hope. Last I looked they only had about 40 people total.

[asleepathewheel]

[WarpStorm]

You're right. No point feeding the trolls.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by ixnay37
Was MP ever actually promised? All I remember hearing was "We're working on some really cool multiplayer ideas; we'll give you more details later."

Everyone who preordered the game was promised MP but three weeks before the release they annonced there would be no MP. No one who bought the game after they were MP was listed as an enclosed feature was offered a refund or a rebate for the missing features.

It seems to be a standard practice by software companies to over promise early on so as to build up the number of preorders then drop a number of features a few days before release. In the retail business that is called "bait & switch" and it is against the law, however, in the software business it is just another tactic to increase sales.

[Apocalypse]

Mine school has done the bait and switch method on occasion when people pick classes. A year and a half ago everyone signed up for Creative Writting with this one cool teacher. Instead we got this semi-ok teacher. We ended up singing happy birthday to her everyday though so it was fun.

I buy every SidGame so I really don't care about this issue.

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Everyone who preordered the game was promised MP but three weeks before the release they annonced there would be no MP. No one who bought the game after they were MP was listed as an enclosed feature was offered a refund or a rebate for the missing features.

Could I get the phrasing or a quote of this promise? I would like to see exactly what was promised to you.

[Wise Ass]

Originally posted by Blue Moose
My comment on surprise was regarding how this issue has appearently been hashed out many times before.

Anyhow, they could have given us barely adequate multiplayer, and then improved. Not that it makes much difference at this point.

-Moose

Barely adequate MP from one of the companies considered to be at the pinnacle of game design...

That would have no effect of future sales or on the reviews the game received.

Seriously Firaxis did the right thing... as a company.