Multiplayer?

[MrBloodworth]

Will this one have multiplayer like the original?

[The Former]

I'm rather baffled by a desire for multiplayer in a game like this. There are two ways to handle multiplayer.

1. You're building the same prison, either via couch co-op or online co-op.

Solution: Stream it to your friends on Discord and give them a vote on your decisions, or have your friends sit with you and do the same.

2. Build different prisons.

Solution: Play the game separately and periodically share your work with your friends. You'd have to do this anyway.

You guys really want the devs to dedicate resources - LONG-TERM resources - to establishing netcode and maintaining servers? And many of you (not all) are complaining about the price of the game as it is. Servers are expensive, you know.

With the solutions I've posited above, is it really worth this game going from $40 to $50-60?

[ITElite]

Ah. You're quite naive if you believe that anyone who has truly played a multiplayer game and understands how multiplayer functions would accept and use your "concept."

Regarding your concern about servers and the associated costs, there's something called peer-to-peer. Or if you prefer, dedicated servers, although they are less relevant here, as the game doesn't have particularly extensive scale.

By the way, the previous game also had multiplayer (though not at release), and it didn't incur any additional costs for us players. So, if the game comes with a $5 increase for multiplayer, it would be reasonable. Demanding more than that is excessive.

[Tename]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ärlig, Paradoxriddaren:

You guys really want the devs to dedicate resources - LONG-TERM resources - to establishing netcode

yes

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ärlig, Paradoxriddaren:

With the solutions I've posited above, is it really worth this game going from $40 to $50-60?

no

[LickMyAss]

I almost pre-bought the PA2 but I just realise it is solo.. So I'll be waiting for the coop edition..

[LickMyAss]

Początkowo opublikowane przez ITElite:

Ah. You're quite naive if you believe that anyone who has truly played a multiplayer game and understands how multiplayer functions would accept and use your "concept."

Regarding your concern about servers and the associated costs, there's something called peer-to-peer. Or if you prefer, dedicated servers, although they are less relevant here, as the game doesn't have particularly extensive scale.

By the way, the previous game also had multiplayer (though not at release), and it didn't incur any additional costs for us players. So, if the game comes with a $5 increase for multiplayer, it would be reasonable. Demanding more than that is excessive.

I agree with this..

[Tappenzel]

Add coop

[Lord Retr0]

i hope they will add a Multiplayer !
in case of hardship i will pay 10€ extra xD

[salamandrion]

Without multiplayer I won't buy it

[Scruffy323]

Początkowo opublikowane przez EnigmaticRose4:

Prison Architect 2 is single player.

Unfortunately without Multiplayer or adding it in the future I know a lot of people will probably pass on this, like myself and most of my friends we all enjoyed PA1 mostly because we could do it together. This is a really unfortunate miss on the development.

[halfbaked2001]

If 2 people were to build on to the same prison that would get disorganized and be more of a pain then anything only way I'd even be ok with multiplayer is if everyone had their own prison, however how many prisons does a town need?

[eXeZ|Gamer433]

for co-op (2 players is totally okay for me)

[kimiko025]

Single player game!! Why does every game need a multiplayer mode?

[NinjaBeest]

Why not add multiplayer? Besides the fact that prison architect 1 multiplayer is absolutely terrible riddled with bugs and connection problems, why not try to do better with this one? Especially if you "discontinued" the first game's updates so you're unwilling to fix anything such as multiplayer anymore. At least add it in the new game? Like seriously dude come on yall. Add multiplayer or co-op like ya did in the first, your community obviously enjoyed it in the first game even WITH the bugs and problems! Add it folks!

[C.Martin]

Początkowo opublikowane przez NinjaBeest:

Why not add multiplayer? Besides the fact that prison architect 1 multiplayer is absolutely terrible riddled with bugs and connection problems, why not try to do better with this one? Especially if you "discontinued" the first game's updates so you're unwilling to fix anything such as multiplayer anymore. At least add it in the new game? Like seriously dude come on yall. Add multiplayer or co-op like ya did in the first, your community obviously enjoyed it in the first game even WITH the bugs and problems! Add it folks!

its a paradox game... theyll probably sell us a 15 dollar dlc for coop and a new hat

[Big Poppa]

Paradox is too incompetent to do multiplayer, they can't do it.