What's wrong with multiplayer?

[Nerawlox]

It will be a good feature. There is a multiplayer mod for the CS1 and it works just fine. It's really fun to build a city with your friends. If they just add this coop feature it would be so great. Why are you all against multiplayer so much?

[LeonardMT]

Look at the history of multiplayer city builders and you'd find out quick.

[reyitos91]

Go and play someday simcity, multiplayer litteraly kill that game

[Retroactive Effect X]

I think multiplayer could actually work this time, but only if it's optional. Most past attempts try to shoe horn it into the game and that's when you see a train wreck like sim city 2013.

[Bad Behavior Defender]

Nothing wrong with multiplayer, they all just remember that simcity 5 had multiplayer and since EA cancelled the serie that must be the reason. Yet. simcity societies was a trainwreck and that was purely singleplayer.

[LeonardMT]

Originally posted by reyitos91:

Go and play someday simcity, multiplayer litteraly kill that game

Originally posted by Retroactive Effect X:

I think multiplayer could actually work this time, but only if it's optional. Most past attempts try to shoe horn it into the game and that's when you see a train wreck like sim city 2013.

Originally posted by Ghost_Star:

Nothing wrong with multiplayer, they all just remember that simcity 5 had multiplayer and since EA cancelled the serie that must be the reason. Yet. simcity societies was a trainwreck and that was purely singleplayer.

It's not just Simcity 2013 but also CitiesXL

[Mazisky]

Multiplayer development and support would steal resources from the main game.

Not worth.

It is like you are the CEO of a factory that produces shoes and sockets and they have both the same production costs.

You find out that you sell 100 shoes a day but only 1 socket a week, and you realize you better scrap the socket production and focus on shoes only.

[CaPY]

Multiplayer is probably the best thing for country/region building game where city building is single player part. If you can build countries with regions where people build inside ordered structured administrative zones.

Country -> County -> Your city and you build your city and connect to other cities in your county. Then you probably have some council players that play on country level where they build infrastructure to connect different counties/states and establish trade routes to different countries and make trade deals.

Game that is like world politics with city building in one. But if you only have one city that you're building then multiplayer is an absolute waste of dev time.

[Bad Behavior Defender]

Originally posted by LeonardMT:

It's not just Simcity 2013 but also CitiesXL

CitiesXL was pretty much just City Life with added multiplayer. City life wasn't good, so was CitiesXL. If you add multiplayer to a garbage game and it doesn't improve, it's not the fault of multiplayer, it's the base product.

[Greyhawk2025]

Because a good chunk of MPs are d1cks.

[Hobbes]

Originally posted by Abyss Watcher:

It will be a good feature. There is a multiplayer mod for the CS1 and it works just fine. It's really fun to build a city with your friends. If they just add this coop feature it would be so great. Why are you all against multiplayer so much?

Go look up what Multiplayer did to Simcity. Then get back to me. It's the fact it also made Singleplayer a total clustertruck that makes a lot of people wary.

[Bad Behavior Defender]

Originally posted by Hobbes:

Go look up what Multiplayer did to Simcity. Then get back to me. It's the fact it also made Singleplayer a total clustertruck that makes a lot of people wary.

Simcity had an accute beingownedbyEA-itis. With EA history of killing great IP it's pretty stupid to blame it on multiplayer. Did EA completely messed up the multiplayer integration? Yes. Could Simcity 2013 had been simcity 4 with upgraded graphics and multiplayer? Also yes.

[Nerawlox]

Originally posted by Hobbes:

Originally posted by Abyss Watcher:

It will be a good feature. There is a multiplayer mod for the CS1 and it works just fine. It's really fun to build a city with your friends. If they just add this coop feature it would be so great. Why are you all against multiplayer so much?

Go look up what Multiplayer did to Simcity. Then get back to me. It's the fact it also made Singleplayer a total clustertruck that makes a lot of people wary.

You city builder games fans are crazy. I'm not talking about multiplayer features like in other games you can't stop recalling. I was talking about coop feature just to build a city with your friends. Like split some tasks between players. Just google or search on youtube for Cities Skylines multiplayer mod and you'll see how fun and good this is. I myself spent some time playing with friends buidling city and it was great.
So I just wish devs would add this feature so modders won't have to do this by themselves.

[Toni]

As for me, that would be great! And without multiplayer, the game is also very interesting.
And the idea itself is very cool.
As for me, that would be great! And without multiplayer, the game is also very interesting.
And the idea itself is very cool.

[Killzone]

This type of game has no need for multiplayer, if you want to show off your creations, capture video of it.

[Bree]

I'm still playing SimCity 2013 and still enjoying the game.

The problem wasn't the multiplayer itself.
The problem was the poor implementation of multiplayer, which is the main thing in this game. The multiplayer features in SimCity 2013 are still clunky, unresponsive, and buggy. And, to be honest, underwhelming.
Also the terrible start.
And the fact that SimCity 2013 was designed around multiplayer so it is very different from other city builders especially from the classic CimCity.
And there still are serious lag issues.

The problem with multiplayer city builders in general is that these city builders are designed around the idea of "do anything/build everything". And the multiplayer/cooperative mode implies, well... cooperation. What is the point of cooperation if you can build and do everything yourself?