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Originally Posted by TNIRISHFAN
Hey Beta testers, I know the developers won't even acknowledge the questions about multiplayer for FHM 4, but respond with a smiley face for yes to Multiplayer, and a frown for no to Multiplayer.
Thanks ahead.
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It won't be in FHM4. There are a number of reasons for this, but the biggest is that, given the other things we wanted and needed to work on this time, there was no way that we were going to have enough time to do multiplayer properly. We learned our lesson with the way it was added in FHM2: trying to quickly fit in a simplified version of OOTP's multiplayer ended in a result that satisfied nobody - it was feature-poor, and trying to shoehorn a system meant for OOTP into a game that does many things differently made it bug-prone.
So we're not going to repeat that experience - either multiplayer goes in as a major feature that we devote a big chunk of a new version's development time to, or it doesn't go in at all. And this time around, there clearly wasn't going to be that kind of time available. We've added a lot of new things to FHM4 - I think the list of significant new features is noticeably longer than 2 or 3's - and some of those, along with things that were added last year, set the table to make a better multiplayer experience possible. When multiplayer does come back, and it will, it's going to be worth playing.