The Update

[Fisherking]

It is no longer daily; so a new thread should be in order....

and here we are.

7th November:

Hi guys,

I have received a lot of questions asking about the status of our Multiplayer Campaign Beta for Empire: Total War. I can confirm that the latest code went out to our Beta Group last night and we are making good progress in testing. Additionally, I can confirm that our Battle AI blog will be posted next week.

Have a great weekend,

Mark O'Connell
(aka SenseiTW)

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic/53425?page=5

[Owen Glyndwr]

That's very good news.

[antisocialmunky]

Do you think that the Battle AI blog is going to blame us and Sega? :-p

[Monsieur Alphonse]

12 November:

Dear All,

For those of you wondering where the Multiplayer Campaign BETA for Empire is, it's still in test.
As it's a BETA product there are also legal and technical issues around distribution to you all which we need to solve prior to release.

It shouldn't be too much longer now, we are still working on it alongside Napoleon, so please do stay with us.

On another note we've just returned from Russia and are due to head to the US next week to show Napoleon to a number of leading websites and journals there, which should yield plenty of new info for fans based in these countries.

Kind regards,
Kieran

So in 2020 they will release it. Or am I too cynical?

[Fisherking]

They say NTW will have a full Multiplayer Campaign, I think...did I miss read it?

Anyway, that means they have to have gotten some of the bugs out before Feb.

Time is creeping up on them.

[Elmar Bijlsma]

As it's a BETA product there are also legal and technical issues around distribution to you all which we need to solve prior to release.

Heaven forfend you release a shoddy and unfinished product.

Ever since RTW The Creative Assembly have been holding their patches to a standard of Q&A clearly not applied to their full game releases.

[gollum]

Originally posted by Kieran Bridgen
As it's a BETA product there are also legal and technical issues around distribution to you all which we need to solve prior to release.

Well pity you announced it as a beta then - you could have gotten around all those issues if you had just said it was a finished product - just like you did with ETW.