Unfortunately you've just learned an important lesson about buying games: Research first, purchase second.

There's been no word on fixing MP, and no word on improving it in the expansion. As I said recently in another thread: Stardock doesn't "get" MP.

I think that he has a fair point.

If what you mean is: "there is no multiplayer option whatsoever," you need to update the game on Impulse. If I recall correctly, multiplayer was enabled shortly after release.

If what you mean is: "multiplayer isn't very fun," well then you should know that making a bad game isn't a crime. And yeah, it's helpful to read reviews before purchasing a game. Otherwise, you have to expect a poor one every once in a while.

Law suit? lolz

Technically he threatened "Law Suits" not "Lawsuits", so I'm pretty sure that he is making threats of a fashion faux pas if you don't fix multiplayer!!!!  

Saying that WoM multiplayer "works" is like saying that a car missing the drivers side door "works". It's a technically accurate statement that leaves any customer who falls for it seething with rage.

What, you mean other then the lack of quests, tactical battles, co-op, mods, custom sovereigns, large maps, true LAN play, and the inability to build stuff?

That's been done, and the answer has been "oh we're not doing that stuff in MP, go away". At this point I don't have much sympathy for people who still buy it for MP because ten seconds of research would reveal just how bad that portion of the game is, but the drastic difference in tone Brad takes between the SP problems and the MP problems is very telling.

Well by some of the standards here, Starcraft 2 multiplayer is "broken too" (of course, there are people on the blizzard forums making that claim all the time).

Multiplayer was never ever promised (or envisioned) to be simply the single player game but with multiplayer. Deal with it.

Comparing Starcraft 2 to WoM's multiplayer is such an outrageous comparison its hard to believe anybody serious would make.

Also, you're at least partially wrong. WoM multiplayer was in fact planned to have mods, according to you. It was also supposed to support 32 players, which also clearly never happened.

So whatever the "plan" was, it changed at some point. Nowhere was it said "oh all this stuff we've been talking about for the past year, yeah none of that exists in MP" until release. Since then it's been pretty well completely ignored.

As I said, I don't feel any sympathy for the OP because at this point WoM is a known commodity. But your attitude on the subject has been exactly the same as it was for the first few days of WoM's release where it was "no it's fine, there's no problem, go away." It's pretty clear that interest in supporting MP was lost at some point, but it was already announced so the whole thing couldn't just be left out.

Next time, if you're going to half-ass it like this just don't bother doing MP at all and do everyone a favor.

yeah we all had high hopes for multiplayer.  only stardock knows at this point the plans they have for it.  maybe they want it to fade from memory, or maybe they have bigger plans.  i wish someone would just post the plans they have, like it or not.  its the speculation that's driving me crazy.

It's true that Blizzard decided to make their officially ranked multiplayer ladder games quite different than what you find in the single player campaign.  There are units, upgrades, and all sorts of different things that they left out of ladder matches because they didn't balance the game around those units.  However, this only refers to officially ranked games.  In custom games, anything goes.  One can play a game with whatever units or settings that one wishes in custom games in Starcraft 2.  There are custom games available on Battle.net that make use of everything from the campaign.

What I want in a MP mode is quite simple for a game like this:

The ability to play a modded (MP games need modding to deal with exploits) SP game with or against a friend or friends without disconnects.

Elemental didn't really provide this.  (lack of mod support in MP, lack of stability apparently also)

That said, the game has to be worth playing SP, for it to be worth playing MP

LOOOOOOOOOOL

Thieves!!! give my money back!! ¬¬

We are referring to what is on the box.

We never "promised" anything. I share with you, in journals, what we have plans to do at the time. Sometimes, things get cut. It's the nature of the beast. This is the case with every game.  But MP in Elemental does work.  It just isn't the same as the SP experience.

Anyway, the whining on this issue gets old. I wish some of you that hang out here just to complain would find some other game to bitch about.