Its quite a shame that there is not a single official matchmaking help for people that bought the gog/vault version because the important information wasnt really present.
After all it said multiplayer online, "GOG, Steam, Vault etc... No differences" and so on.
So i thought there would finally be a nice game to look forward to without having to put up with steam,origin,uplay,etc. After buying i had to find out via other sad customers that you practically cant play multiplayer if you dont buy from steam. If i knew that i wouldnt have supported,advertised or let alone looked forward to the title.
The reaction to at least change Larians description to more accurately say what it means to not buy on steam is ok.
But then again it would have been nice to at least make some official forum,chat or what not to supply non-steamers with at least a workaround. Implement the channelid,link or whatnot into the game with a simple text notice and configure a new forum area or irc channel or something else. One days work by some trainee would have been enough to do that.
And of course fixing it that you at least wont have to configure your router if you even find someone to play multiplayer with would have been good.
That would still be pretty lame compared to a simple matchmaking or "server"-list but at least it would have been something. But the way it was released your completely cutting out non-steam-buyers from most of the game. Now the people that had interest in MP either switched to steam or for the most part lost interest already.
Singleplayer is ok and the game itself is very nice but the "AI" is pretty boring once you learn how it works and hardly keeps the game going for more than a couple of hours. Also balance is not worth anything in singleplayer. Especially with the dragon. So the MP part would have been very important.
Im not angry at Larian. Im just really sad that a game i had high hopes for and was looking forward to was such a letdown. And the part im really sad about is that its not because of the game but because of where you buy it from or rather have to buy it from. The game itself would have been good... so close...
Striking the devils deal with steam while still selling it crippled outside of it was maybe good for money and sales of this title but it wasnt good for the game and the name.
Thanks to Zhuinden for making your irc channel and advertising it as good as you can. If they would at least make same sort of notice on the forum about that it would at least get some chance that non-steamers could find someone to play MP with. I dont have high hopes anymore though. Too little too late. But good luck in any case and thanks Zhuinden for trying.
edit:
So does that mean GOG version won't provide any kind of multiplayer master server listing open/running games? ...
it does indeed mean that.
if you buy it from steal.. erm steam you get the complete game. if you buy it from somewhere else you get crippleware. practically the same as if you download it illegaly.
meaning there is NO serverlist/browser or anything of the sorts to play multiplayer.
you can only try lan and "connectviaip" BUT the second option only works if you configure your internet router at home right. port 23232 udp btw
since hope still dies last, does anyone know if there is anything in the planing, dlc or what not that enables some kind of lobby for dragon commander? edit2: no steam :P
