LAN support?

[HeritoBiBuba]

I think you have to add LAN support.

I mean, I don't want to play with all players around the world, I just want to play with a couple of friends. So, we played D2, Torchlight 2, etc on LAN and actually everything is perfect and we had a lot of fun.

I'm not interested in trading or playing with people I don't know.

So, we are forced to play in their official server which mostly doesn't work, or at least doesn't work correctly.

So, add a LAN support. I don't know why companies stopped add this so important feature in their games...

[Videogame Jukebox]

I miss that feature from old games.

[Ravenkid9266]

According to the developers on discord, and despite being a promoted kick starter feature LAN support is impossible.

[HeritoBiBuba]

Originally posted by Ravenkid9266:

According to the developers on discord, and despite being a promoted kick starter feature LAN support is impossible.

Because?

[Ravenkid9266]

Originally posted by HeritoBiBuba:

Originally posted by Ravenkid9266:

According to the developers on discord, and despite being a promoted kick starter feature LAN support is impossible.

Because?

Some tech jargon I am not familiar enough with to understand, English is not my native language and what little English tech I understand went out of fashion quite sometime ago. A quick pop over to the discord can pull up the exact reason.

Edit: Found it, to quote the developer Trasochi "The way that the multiplayer code is structured relies on a separate game server and backend service that would be impossible to recreate in a LAN or other peer to peer environment."

From the official discord.

[[SSF] Lucky]

Would be really great! I miss that feature a lot.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

Originally posted by Ravenkid9266:

Originally posted by HeritoBiBuba:

Because?

Some tech jargon I am not familiar enough with to understand, English is not my native language and what little English tech I understand went out of fashion quite sometime ago. A quick pop over to the discord can pull up the exact reason.

Edit: Found it, to quote the developer Trasochi "The way that the multiplayer code is structured relies on a separate game server and backend service that would be impossible to recreate in a LAN or other peer to peer environment."

From the official discord.

it just means they went for the live service approach and reworking it to have co-op without connecting to the live service is not worth it

why not worth it? because getting you to play on the live service is what they want.

[HeritoBiBuba]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

it just means they went for the live service approach and reworking it to have co-op without connecting to the live service is not worth it

why not worth it? because getting you to play on the live service is what they want.

Exactly my thoughts. It's just for greed. Playing on their servers, and watching these dudes with these "cool" skins would make you buy it as well.

Playing coop with a couple of friends won't affect it that way on you.

Greedy company again, collecting a bunch of money on Kickstarter, but yet working for themselves instead for their customers. Won't buy it :)

[Ravenkid9266]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

Originally posted by Ravenkid9266:

Some tech jargon I am not familiar enough with to understand, English is not my native language and what little English tech I understand went out of fashion quite sometime ago. A quick pop over to the discord can pull up the exact reason.

Edit: Found it, to quote the developer Trasochi "The way that the multiplayer code is structured relies on a separate game server and backend service that would be impossible to recreate in a LAN or other peer to peer environment."

From the official discord.

it just means they went for the live service approach and reworking it to have co-op without connecting to the live service is not worth it

why not worth it? because getting you to play on the live service is what they want.

No I get that, I mean like I have no idea what "multiplayer code structure" means its like gourmet it can mean anything. I do find it strange that LAN was a promoted feature on the kick starter, and LE developed as a single player game for so long before they decided to shove MP into it.

Opposed to like cutting all of the planned skills due to time, I can conceptualize that reason. Or they delayed the 3d item models, due to time, I can conceptualize that reason, and so on. I cant conceptualize the reason to cut LAN support given that EHG went back on their attempt to cut offline entirely.

[ChillGamer]

Its not 2008 anymore...

[kongkim]

Way should they use time on LAN when its would only be a very small part of the players that would use it.
How is that greed, people are simple just stupid on this forum.

[Videogame Jukebox]

Originally posted by ChillGamer:

Its not 2008 anymore...

Really? No way.

[Ravenkid9266]

Originally posted by kongkim:

Way should they use time on LAN

Maybe because they marketed LAN support? shocking I know, but if its such a non-issue so irrelevant then why did the market it as a feature? Same with Mac support, PvP, 3d item models, the missing skills, a complete story, or any other promoted feature that has yet to manifest with this 4 years overdue 1.0 release.

[ericneo2]

What back end support? If you play offline there should be no server back end. If the devs of Diablo could get TCP/IP working on a LAN almost 28 years these devs have 0 excuse.

[Skankinpig]

If they released a LAN version of the game their sales would have been impacted by the pirating community in a bigger way. A lot of people who pirate will buy games for the MP.

[¥‎€‎‎$]

Originally posted by Skankinpig:

If they released a LAN version of the game their sales would have been impacted by the pirating community in a bigger way. A lot of people who pirate will buy games for the MP.

same old story, people that bought the game getting punished for a theoretical pirate playing MP! tells you everything you need to know how you're valued by those companies.

i would get if they hold LAN back 1-2 months but no no just punish all that bought it, fk them.

and @devs while at it, remove account/online requirement for offline and i'll buy!