I'm confused, as I've never had any problem playing FtG multiplayer but I always see people complaining about how you can't play MP. Admittedly, it's always been on the LAN for me, but that works great (though we can't get it to connect with non-windows machines running Wine, but that's not something I'm hugely upset about -- would be nice, but it's probably a problem unrelated to FtG). But yeah, FtG is way more stable than our old house games of EU2 1.08 were.
What would annoy me (only a little, of course) would be if 1.3 were to be released after I'd gotten just far enough into the next game that I wouldn't want to start anew (I know it's a matter of preference, but the mid/late game is my favorite), assuming of course that old saves wouldn't be compatible with the new version of the game. But if that's an unfounded concern, then awesome! I don't suppose that's been answered somewhere I haven't seen, has it?