Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity Original Sin - Beta Purpose behind the Single/Multiplayer option?

I have to chime in into the discussion as well although I do not really like pushing it... But, oh well, since this thread (yet another!) has got derailed anyway...

I have been a member on these forums for one and a half year now and I cannot remember that it has ever been so full of personal insults as in the last few weeks. Not even in the beta testing of the Dragon Commander - although we had pretty heated discussions then as to how the game should be balanced. But somehow we always managed to keep it in a civilised way. And now it has apparently become so very bad indeed that even Swen has to comment and ask all the involved parties to calm down! I mean right now Larian should concentrate on the bug fixes and balancing of the game - and not on struggling through all the personal attacks and insults in the faint hope that somewhere under all this thick layer of endless "you are a troll" - "no, you are a troll" there are a few useful comments or opinions which might help to improve the game!

So, please, for the sake of the game and for the sake of Larian's time and for the sake of our well-being here: Do not push the discussions which lead to insults and personal attacks! Ignore the people who you think might be insulting you: You do not become a troll/.../whatever just if someone calls you so! If you do not like how someone addresses you - put them on the ignore list (that is what it is for, isn't it?) or, if you really feel that you absolutely HAVE to respond - use the PMs!

My personal feeling is that these forums have deteriorated badly in the last few weeks and that it is not a nice place anymore!

Back to the thread topic: I think that of course the multiplayer/singleplayer options and buttons could be implemented in a more elegant way than they are right now. However, it is technical stuff which is working in the form in which it currently is. So, with the game being something like 3 weeks before release I think there might be more urgent issues than breaking a technical implementation which is now functional and trying to redo it in another way - which might or might not be an improvement to the current system.