Is it Time? Focus on MULTIPLAYER

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Besides the question when multiplayer will get implemented - I’m also with the “when it’s done” fraction - I’d really like to see some more information on the state of MP.

We had a discussion on our German Community Discord about this recently.

The MP question is one of the most asked questions. And all we have is the dev blog from months ago.

I personally don’t need a 5k words blog post every week. But a short summary of the current state once in a while would be awesome.

This was a statement from Mike where he states they want to be more communicative on that topic:

@EHG_Mike

I think that we have probably been a little too tight lipped about it as of late. I think we can open up the dialogue a little more. Unfortunately we are going to put a slight delay on that just until we’re over the patch hump. Once we’re through that, we will take some time to get the community communication regarding multiplayer going better.

Unfortunately EHG did not level up their MP news information skills .

So another thread was created months later and we got a really nice statement from Sarno:

The Great Big Multiplayer Question Revisited

pours himself a cuppa Alrrriiiiggghhhtty then.   Our Plans for Multiplayer At release, Last Epoch will support both offline-only, locally stored characters and online-only, server-side characters played in a server-authorative environment. Competitive aspects of the game (such as ladders) will cater to the latter. While we don’t plan to ever allow previously offline characters to be brought online, we are open to the prospect of allowing players to download a copy of an online character for o…

End of 2020 we then got the dev blog with a video.

Now it’s June (almost) and we follow the tradition we established regarding MP news:

• @rittchard creates a topic, asking for MP news
• People jump in to justify why theres no MP already in and why it is justified to not hear about it (devs have no time and should create content and stuff instead of answering questions regarding a topic they already answered 5 months ago )
• But brave people do not give up and push the topic until somebody from EHG gives some answeres

Imho infos on multiplayer are too deep buried here on the forum. It’s not that people are not able to use the search function. Because if you are a new player in May 2021 and you search for “Multiplayer” the first 2 results are a dev blog from 2018 and an Announcement that is 5 months old. New players propably think that there would/should be a newer info somewhere, so they ask for it.

@EHG_Mike answers questions about MP on his stream several times per stream. But it’s not much info and even if it was some interesting details we need to rely on being live in stream or read a write up fro @AndrewTilley . Currently theres no central spot for that info.

Why not just regularly give some (small) update on the state and make them obvious like pin them on reddit, steam, forums, discord, website?

Also would it be so bad if EHG would say “Hey guys, this is our roadmap [insert link here]. We will most likely release 2 more content updates before the 0.9.0 MP update.”

Certainly somebody at EHG Headquarters has a plan. I doubt that they are rolling dice every patch to determine what comes next.

@Moxjet200 Has offered us in prospect during the recent AMA that they want to give a roadmap update. I’m so excited about this.

So I tagged 2 devs with that post and certainly have used up my credit now (hopefully not!!).

But from my perspective this is a very important and popular topic and (as much as I like EHG and praise their communication with us) might need the promised improvement on information it is still lacking.

Would be really nice and fancy to get some news!

Cheers!