Should we have to go beyond our limits to enjoy multiplayer?

[AggonyKing]

Tis a question that I asked myself today after a few days of frustration with this game's MP and wanted to hear your answers.

I sort of disagree with my own question but not completely. Yes, it is true that you yourself as a PC gamer must ensure that your computer meets at least the min specs and that you must know the limitations of what your computer can play.

For a game like TW, this means knowing what graphic settings, if you can do team games, your internet speed, etc. However, I disagree with anything beyond what was covered above because as long as you pay for a game and any dlc that potentially comes out, you are showing support to the developer and its up to the developer to meet certain quality standards to keep the fan base happy and make you a returning customer. Without such support from the developer (such as constant patches) it becomes very hard, but not impossible, to enjoy multiplayer.

Take for example what happened to me tonight when playing NTW(not counting the days before). I tried to start a 2v2 with a clan mate but we could not connect to each other due to a 'No Response from Host' error message. We tried 3 times to fix the problem by switching server regions, but alas, no cigar. Since we could not play, we split up and went separate ways. I then got into a ranked 1v1 and 10 minutes into it the other player dropped as soon as the battle turned my side.

Overall, I spent close to 1 hour trying to play a game and 10 minutes of actual gameplay. Of course, if you have enough friends that play NTW then things like these are not likely to happen, but I doubt that over 1/4 of players of this game are like me who have a huge friends list of players that play ntw and can mostly avoid problems.(except for those days when you are reminded just how bad the quality of mp stability really is)

So then it becomes an issue of why should we have to go beyond our capabilities to truly enjoy multiplayer? Should we not expect to buy a game an immediately be able to jump into multiplayer without having to rely so much in adding enough people to a friends list? Are we not entitled to some sort of quality standard?

I'm afraid that if MP does not chance for Shogun 2, this might simply be my last TW game

[AggonyDuck]

Now, now King; I believe our clan rules state that you're not allowed to quit before I do. :P

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

I know, Ducky been here to long, he needs to enjoy retirement.


I still play MP for S2TW regardless if it bad or not. I think if you truly care about the game you playing MP wise, you do anything for it.

[AggonyKing]

Now, now King; I believe our clan rules state that you're not allowed to quit before I do. :P

dam! busted!

:P

And Warman I do care enough about MP....its just that I think with my wallet sometimes because I'm not gonna spend on something thats broken

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

In that case I would not have brought RTW..... M2TW......ETW.....NTW.... and more then likely AntiWarmanCake would just have been a minor player on the 2.0 unpatched server on VI from 2004 who was 'smart' enought not to move on to other TW MP games and became nothing.

No matter if it broken or not... Ain't going to be fixed if you boycott it. I would have fun anyhow. It's call working with what ya got.

[AggonyKing]

I think you underestimate the power of boycotting

and for reference I bought mtw2 and rtw even though I never played mp on those (only like once) but even that mp was 10x better than what we got now I also played a lot of etw mp, so like the saying goes, fool me once...yadayada...fool me twice...yadayada...not gonna be a third if the etw style mp continues :P

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

In that logic, I been fooled 4 times, from RTW to NTW and still here!

But I understand your point, but even if people boycott, how many will? Maybe 50 or 100? WOW!!!!! So times it by $50 or $60 dollars and they may lose a few thousands bucks, but they can make it up with our SP friends, so why would they care? This isn't WOW. Most people here could do without MP and the ones that do play it only do so occsionally. Us hardcore people are a elite little group Kingy, the Puppet King.