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Originally posted by Kagetora:
Was it ever really advertised? I only remeber it being mentioned as 'planned'. Post me a quote and I may feel otherwise.<<<<
What's the difference? Read the malfador news where at both Thanksgiving and Christmas Aaron said he was working on the multiplayer for the next patch. That was 6 months ago. You can't just spout features you intend to put in to get everybody to buy the game based on those claims then not follow through. If somebody sold you a house and said they would fix the roof and you moved in in good faith and then they didn't fix the roof. Not only would that be unethical as hell but they would be in violation of a verbal contract and would get their asses sued off. That is exactly what happened here.
Actually there's quite a bit of difference between an actual advertisement/contract and a list of features that may be implemented. There are laws that govern advertising, but I don't think a todo list is covered anywhere under contract law. It might depend on how the list itself was presented etc etc but I digress. If you want to get into the realm of contract law and other legalities, well nowhere in the those two news updates does it specifically state that either of the two updates in question refer to TCP/IP implementation of multiplayer games. The first refers to a utility to assist with muliplayer games which I guess is the PBEM tool, I can't be sure since I've never really taken a look at it though. The second update only refers to multiplayer enhancement.