This game is since launch advertised with a hotjoin mechanic. When is the ETA for this to finally work?
Game is still advertised with Hotjoin functionality.
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This game is since launch advertised with a hotjoin mechanic. When is the ETA for this to finally work?
It has never worked. I made an extensive "hate" thread about it not working, and was ignored. Make a troll thread about France needing a buff and get 9000 answers, incluiding from the devs.
Also, finally providing a OOS free multiplayer experience this long after release would also be appreciated.
There's not a lot I can say about this here that I haven't said elsewhere.
Advertising a feature that hasn't worked for the majority of the game's existence and that is known not to be functional currently can and should be viewed as extremely poor business practice. When a product meets the standards of a non-conforming good, the company knows it, and continues to advertise it as such there aren't a lot of good conclusions you can make. Aside from LA floor, patch 1.8 is mostly quite good, but the continued problems with advertised features continues to leave a bad mark on the title.
Advertising a feature that hasn't worked for the majority of the game's existence and that is known not to be functional currently can and should be viewed as extremely poor business practice. When a product meets the standards of a non-conforming good, the company knows it, and continues to advertise it as such there aren't a lot of good conclusions you can make. Aside from LA floor, patch 1.8 is mostly quite good, but the continued problems with advertised features continues to leave a bad mark on the title.
Its still strange why there is only so little backlash when they simply do not provide what is advertised.
Relatively few people play multiplayer. And from what I hear multiplayer is so unstable in general that this is a minor concern.
When I say unstable I'm comparing it to Blizzard games. Not a fair comparison, but such is life.
When I say unstable I'm comparing it to Blizzard games. Not a fair comparison, but such is life.
Perhaps because you and TMIT have personality types that are relatively rare.
The rest of us have accepted that this feature does not work.
I hope they eventually get around to sorting it out. I also hope you eventually stop moping about it. I wonder what will happen first.
Perhaps because you and TMIT have personality types that are relatively rare.
The rest of us have accepted that this feature does not work.
I hope they eventually get around to sorting it out. I also hope you eventually stop moping about it. I wonder what will happen first.
Why would you hope that they stop moping? I don't participate much in the forums, but I'm glad that some people are speaking up on behalf of those of us who looked forward to their feature, and don't just blindly accept paradox ignoring a major issue. If you don't think that public outrage has an effect on the priorities of Paradox, then you are absolutely mistaken.
It's frustrating having to spend ten minutes rehosting, every time someone disconnects or crashes, which often happens in this game, hotjoining would certainly make multiplayer a much better experience.
As they would say on some other, lower brow forums I am also active on:
Bagonad pwned Slargos for 325 gold!
Bagonad pwned Slargos for 325 gold!
Some features are more cared about than others - look at the CK2 thread on the broken converter.
To expand on this: Back when 1.6 came out, Johan released some statistics. One of which was that 15% of all games played of EU4 are multiplayer. We don't know if this counts rehosts due to technical issues or not, but what we do know is that an overwhelming majority of players play single-player/offline.
They confirmed that every time a game starts it is ticked, so the 15% does include rehosts/reboots.
As they would say on some other, lower brow forums I am also active on:
Bagonad pwned Slargos for 325 gold!
what!? You crazy, nobody pawns Slargos, he is oldtimer (Join Date Dec 1999).
I've never tried to use it, nor do I desire to, so I see little reason to be upset about it.
That's the dumbest reason to be against something. If paradox decided to just remove SP from all their future games, MP players can just tell SP players to **** off because "they don't play SP, so there's no reason to be upset about it".