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Id Pay For Multiplayer

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Please make this game multiplayer. I read the post on the case for no multiplayer in GalCiv II, and I must respectfully disagree. I also thought Master of Magic was a great game, but I feel multiplayer could have only enchanced it. To be able to enslave my friends halfling towns and force them into dark rituals is what gaming is all about. To have my spies poison my friends farms so his alien citizens starve. Oh the glory. Beating up on the computer loses its luster too quickly. Its not even a matter of a PC being more challenging (though they are), I feel that multiplayer adds a very personal element to the game that doesnt exist otherwise. Im not a communist. Im happy to pay for a multiplayer supplement. I think you made a very quality game, please add this feature too. Id also like to point out that your customer service is exceptional. Thanks again.
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Reply #51 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
And you can go back to whining until you get the special treatment you like and insulting people who give you answers you don't like.

People don't get flamed for asking about multiplayer. They do get flamed for refusing to accept that a decision has been made, for insulting the skills and intelligence of those who made the decision, and for just not accepting that they're not going to get their own way.

I noticed that you made no response to my suggestion on #34. Of course, that involves more work than just whining until you get what you want...
Reply #52 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The MP-fanboys flame first, calling us half-gamers and saying single player gamers have no friends and crap like that. Please forgive us if we're a little tired of it. Geez...
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Reply #53 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I haven't flamed anyone, but I would like to see where it is the devs say there won't be multiplayer. I've been told over and over again that "According to the devs, there will never be MP"

Reading through the journals, I keep seeing "there will eventually be MP, but we aren't willing to sacrifice other thing for it"

I thought that that meant that there would eventually be multiplayer.
Reply #54 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I haven't flamed anyone, but I would like to see where it is the devs say there won't be multiplayer.


Unless the polls and marketing info suddenly reverse course, there will not be a multiplayer expansion for GC2--the demand is just not there to make it worthwhile. And it would not be added outside the context of an expansion if at all (i.e., it's way too much for a free patch).

Cross your fingers for GC3. If the growth of GC series sales continues at its present rate, there should be sufficient demand to seriously consider adding multiplayer then.
Reply #55 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Scott, as the devs have said several times, resources are limited. They have asked their customers what they want prioritised, and MP wasn't even second on the list. You're asking them to burn off the customers who have paid in favour of those who might pay.

If you want MP so bad, why not set up a web-page with a paypal pledge account. Have everyone who wants MP pledge $10 or whatever, and when the total reaches whatever amount Stardock say is required to break even on a MP expansion, then you're good to go. Then we'll see how many people want MP bad enough to actually pony up for it. SD can sell the expansion for $15 to everyone who didn't pledge and make their (gauranteed) profit on it there.

Then if there really is a huge, untapped market for MP GalCiv2, the deprived thousands can vote with their dollars. If, on the other hand, there are only a few hundred loud-mouths who want their pet feature implemented at the expense of the desires of the majority, you'll know for sure.


Since you insisted (and, no, I wasn't ignoring you, I just hadn't noticed).

A fan totally unaffiliated with Stardock would have about as much luck getting donations via PayPal for multiplayer as he would getting rich off a Nigerian investment scam. You cannot possibly be serious about this.

Let's try a more realistic suggestion. Perhaps Stardock could develop the multiplayer functionality under a paid beta program. A press release is sent out, an announcement is made on the website, and a few interviews are done for the gaming mags. For ten bucks (or twenty or whatever sounds fair), Stardock will allow you to participate in a paid beta testing program for GalCiv MP. No guarantees are made. No deadlines are given. Gamers interested in participating cough up the bucks, and download the software as it is developed. Perhaps at first it's simply PBEM functionality. I dunno. But this would give the fans a chance to vote with their wallets, and help fund the project.



Reply #56 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That seems like a reasonable possibility, but I think you'd have to demonstrate that enough people would want it, and there would have to be quite a few thousand to make it pay. We're told that >100,000 copies of the game have been sold. If we optimistically assume that half of them are still being played regularly, then around 20% of the gaming population would have to be prepared to stump up the $10-20 required with no gauruntee of receiving anything. That's a pretty high proportion!

I guess I'd pay $10 if I knew I was going to get MP that worked well.
Reply #57 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm thinking that there's also a lot of dedicated fans here who would participate even if MP isn't a big priority for them. The community here seems pretty loyal and enthusiastic about the growth of this franchise.