Ummm wait up: If it were 9% 'yes' and 91% said 'no', then there is no contest to me.  41% 'yes'?  That's still a large number, even if it's not over 50%.  Think of it: a little less than half of all the people that voted want to see a multiplayer component.

Also, your 'statistics have shown only 2% of the gamer base 'out there' wants or plays multiplayer elements of a game' - please, where did this information come from and how does it relate to this game?  Because again, it looks like 41% of this particular gamer base wants to play a multiplayer match.

Finally, based on your 'stupid, silly multiplayer element' remark: Is the poll really a multiplayer match that you won?     Did you enjoy it?  Then you voted against what you really wanted!

Joking aside, I think alot of people that say no to multiplayer have a conditioned knee-jerk reaction to this poll because (and this is my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt):

1. They are still waiting to see a 'win' on the SP side of things with the game even though they can obviously see that FE is head and shoulders above the previous attempt, while still being in beta form.  I don't know, but this seems irrational to me.

2. TBS games that have a multiplayer component are far and few between, even though there have been positive results in this arena in the past (AoW series, Jagged Alliance: DG, MoM, HoMM series, Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri, MOO, Civilization series).  People are still playing these games because of the multiplayer component, I might add.

3. More of the people in the poll have just naturally gravitated towards SP games in general, so the poll is skewed.

 This game is a revolutionary iteration to the original Elemental game, and we can see the quality that has come out of it, correct?  Well, I'd be willing to (and have) vote(d) a 'yes' in the poll and pay for the DLC, because these guys just did a free do-over that didn't have to be done.  Let's give 'em a round to help inject some money back into the work they did for us.  

Having a working multiplayer mode can only help boost sales of the people that already 'own' the game: if those people are venturous enough to try it, they may like it - and they can then tell their friends to get the full game for a match or twenty.  I'd be willing to bet if it's good, those new purchasers will also try out the SP version...

The other thing that is good is, people have a choice as to whether they want to buy MP or not as it's a DLC component.

Give multi-player a dollar of a chance.  Sheesh!

Some people haven't understood the question. They read it as I pay $39 for SP or $40 for SP+MP. I don't mind paying a $1. However, if you read it as I paid $39 for the SP and now there is a separate DLC for just $1 would you bother with the hassle of paying and downloading? What I am seeing is that most people wouldn't bother. I certainly wouldn't bother.

That depends.

Can that dollar be given, lets say instead, for more single player content? If so that's where I want my dollar to go.

Seanw3:   Math, Dude !  ...  (Okay, I know I shouldn't even comment on this, because you will soon catch your mistake, and correct it, but ... that will be then, and this is now.) 

Anyways, a 41% positive response rate, out of 388 respondents, is worth more like $159.       Okay, so Big Diff ...

(BTW: Shouldn't I get a Karma point out of this ? ... After all, I did just catch a mistake, by one the most  Brilliant Minds  that posts on these sites !  )

I played many FfH2 multiplayer matches, and it was great. With a big dose of roleplay, and many funny situations. I want something simillar, and FE seems that way. I definetly would pay that 1$, and my friends will do, if game will have enjoyable multiplayer mode.

I would like to do a play by mail with seanw3 and das123. The game would take forever, but it would play out like a novel

If my wife had any interest in a 4X fantasy game, then yes. Unfortunately the only TBS game she has any patience for is Heroes of Might and Magic.

I would support a multiplayer mode that focussed on play between friends only.  Honestly I feel that competitive play between strangers doesn't really suit this type of game.  However, the ability to have co-op (versus AI) and competitive play between friends (including human alliances battling it out with or without AI players/teams) friends would be a really awesome and welcome feature for me.  Just don't set FE MP up like WoM MP - include tactical battles, allow full mod support (same mods on all computers), and focus on the friend co-op/competitive games instead.  If you had that log-in system to have turns and battles in arranged games (with emails to people when their turn is ready, or when they need to be available when battling a friend) that could work even better than the traditional setup where everyone has to be available all the time.

But if you don't want to worry about the friend competitive, just provide co-op play with features such as Bellack just suggested and that would be fantastic!

No.

Draginol, you guys get too distracted. Enough with the polls. How long have you guys been working on this game?

Fix the bugs and the mid to late game OOM crashes. Release it already.

I'd pay for multiplayer, no more than $10. I purchased E:WoM to play multiplayer games with a few buddies of mine. I even convinced those buddies to buy that game. I know that E:WoM's usage stats for the multiplayer were very low (I didn't even attempt it), but I attribute that to very few mentions of it by game reviewers (which says a lot) and comments about the mode made by avid forum posters. I feel privileged that I'm getting FE for free, but I wish that a multiplayer component was available too, even if it isn't as popular or played as much as as the single player sandbox mode. I think going the DLC route would be great.

This is total BS. TBS was made for Multi-player. I never understood how anyone would think the MP does not work for TBS games. Have you people never played boardgames before? Guess what, that is what inspired computer TBS games ....HELLO!!!!!!!!.

AI is never going to be as challanging as a human. And there are TBS games that have woorked quite well as MP. CIV 4 and now CIV 5 (yes I like Civ 5)

AOW:SM, Shogun Total War, just to name a few. The key is to not change the single player expereance for MP. That means don't dumb down the game for either speed or balance. If it can be fun single player then just allow the ability to have a human as well as AI players (see Civ 4 on how to do this or AOW:SM) Also in additon to LAN and Internet have Hotseat so I can play more than one faction at a time.

I'm not calling for servers to be set up to play MP we can use our own PC's to host games.