Multiplayer?

[RyanTehLion]

Hi guys, ive recently bought rayman as i was lead to beleive it was multiplayer because it said the word "multiplayer" directly above the words "local co op" implieing that the game has two seperate methods of playing. After buying and installing the game for me and my freind we can find no way to connect to each other and play via the internet. Have i been mislead here or is there some portion of the game that is capable of being played online? any insight would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance

[Kaizen]

No online co-op or direct online multiplayer. The 'multiplayer' status probably just refers to the competitive challenges/leaderboards within the game.

[RyanTehLion]

are these competative challenges only interective with other players via the leader board or are they able to be played online, it seems im clutching at straws!

[Kaizen]

Correct, no direct connection between you and anyone else via online play.
Simply leaderboards.

[RyanTehLion]

Oh thats ashame and very misleading, but thanks for your help clarifying things up for me

[himmatsj]

It is misleading and has been a point of contention.

However, if you've been on Steam long enough you'd know this is not the first and last time this is happening.

To be fair though, there is only online co-op if it says CO-OP and MULTIPLAYER. LOCAL CO-OP and MULTIPLAYER by itself doesn't imply online co-op.

Also, the trailers showed a competitive online multiplayer mode (Kung Foot) so that is where the confusion by Ubisoft may have come from. Even in the game Kung Foot says "invite friends" implying online play. But this turns out to not be the case.

[Kaizen]

Originally posted by himmatsj:

It is misleading and has been a point of contention.

However, if you've been on Steam long enough you'd know this is not the first and last time this is happening.

To be fair though, there is only online co-op if it says CO-OP and MULTIPLAYER. LOCAL CO-OP and MULTIPLAYER by itself doesn't imply online co-op.

Also, the trailers showed a competitive online multiplayer mode (Kung Foot) so that is where the confusion by Ubisoft may have come from. Even in the game Kung Foot says "invite friends" implying online play. But this turns out to not be the case.

Wait, I have no 'friends' on my Uplay, and have not actually tried the Kung Foot, is the Kung Foot mode able to be played directly with friends?

[himmatsj]

Originally posted by tbagala:

Originally posted by himmatsj:

It is misleading and has been a point of contention.

However, if you've been on Steam long enough you'd know this is not the first and last time this is happening.

To be fair though, there is only online co-op if it says CO-OP and MULTIPLAYER. LOCAL CO-OP and MULTIPLAYER by itself doesn't imply online co-op.

Also, the trailers showed a competitive online multiplayer mode (Kung Foot) so that is where the confusion by Ubisoft may have come from. Even in the game Kung Foot says "invite friends" implying online play. But this turns out to not be the case.

Wait, I have no 'friends' on my Uplay, and have not actually tried the Kung Foot, is the Kung Foot mode able to be played directly with friends?

If you understood what I said, no, it isn't able to be played with friends online.

[Kaizen]

Originally posted by himmatsj:

Originally posted by tbagala:

Wait, I have no 'friends' on my Uplay, and have not actually tried the Kung Foot, is the Kung Foot mode able to be played directly with friends?

If you understood what I said, no, it isn't able to be played with friends online.

That's what I thought, thanks for the clarification.

[RyanTehLion]

I understood there would be no online co op quite early on in my findings but multiplayer implies at least one aspect of the game is capable of being played online and even that would suffice, unfortunatly no aspect of the game whatsoever is capable of online multiplay and this is what is misleading.

[Cageymaru]

Valve should make them remove the multiplayer tag since there is none. If a leaderboard is the only prerequisite for multiplayer tag, then nearly every PC created is multiplayer. My friends bought this to play together as we live in various locations across the USA. Doesn't matter if UBISOFT or anyone else mislabeled their game in this manner. It's intentionally misleading and wrong to do so if you don't have the system in place to handle a multiplayer lobby.

Sorry not grateful that it was ported if it has a bold faced lie attached to it. It was ported to make money for UBISOFT. The multiplayer tag on the Steam page is intentionally deceitful in nature. These guys remind me of the tonic salesmen from the late 1800's. Their deceit led to the creation of the FDA. Seems that we need a similar body governing electronic media.