Unable To Play With Non-Expansion Players Feedback

[medea_fleecestealer]

Because it makes it easier to find than searching the forum for them all the time.

"There are no plans for closed servers.

Not financially viable for a primarily singleplayer game, especially not for one that doesn’t rely on microtransactions to make profits.

Alas, you vastly overestimate how many players actually care about multiplayer in ARPGs, roughly 10% of the audience. It’s like saying Skyrim needs secure servers cause it’s 2017. As for safe gaming…I don’t know about your room, but when I play games singleplayer in my office, it feels pretty safe.

When you buy a copy of Grim Dawn, you could play it 2 hours or 1000 hours, from a business perspective it makes very little difference to us. If we had closed servers, now the player who plays for 1000 hours is considerably more expensive for us, and will continue to be for as long as they play.

At that point, introducing microtransactions seems like a no-brainer to off-set those costs.

I think we’ll be sticking to our (already successful) plans."

Any news about implementing closed servers??

There are no plans for closed servers. Not financially viable for a primarily singleplayer game, especially not for one that doesn’t rely on microtransactions to make profits. Alas, you vastly overestimate how many players actually care about multiplayer in ARPGs, roughly 10% of the audience. It’s like saying Skyrim needs secure servers cause it’s 2017. As for safe gaming…I don’t know about your room, but when I play games singleplayer in my office, it feels pretty safe. When you buy a copy o…

25th May 2018 stream:

u said last time u wont make dedicated servers could u tell why would make game much better for everybody ?
bring dedicated server could improve the game and bring a ton of new players in… joining a game with 350+ ping no fun zentai plz make it happen
Yes. I haven’t heard that one before. As the question comes up all the time I will answer it one more time on stream. Dedicated servers would be a cool feature. I think if we were to have it, it would have to have happened when the game was new, when we could actually garner attention for the game and get people excited for the fact there are dedicated servers, there are seasons and all these hardcore multiplayer features. Instead we focused on a single player experience, that is ultimately what Grim Dawn is about and we’re sticking to that, it’s working well for us. I think dedicated servers would be great, they will not happen for this game. Maybe Grim Dawn 2.

Forthcoming Forgotten Gods expac - what we know so far Part I

A LOT for you to wade through this time. I think I’m going to ban Zantai from doing streams himself - he talks too much! [spoiler]New music track from Skewsound to start off. Today as promised, I’m actually going to show you some of the movement skills we’ve been teasing. They’re a work in progress as with all things we show you during developement, they are subject to change, numbers can and will change. These are only the basic levels of the skills, there are more powerful versions …

5th October 2018 stream:

FiskeJR :Are there any plans for “closed online servers” like in D2?
Zantai_GD :no, that is something that would have needed to happen when the game was new

Then there are 2 other ones that eisprinzessin has linked in his compilation of dev feedback FAQ thread.

Closed servers - why and how

There is really no need to bring this topic up again when there have been numerous threads on the subject, many with replies from us. We are aware that some players wish for the game to have closed servers, and in a perfect world that would be the case. It has always comes down to the initial cost of retrofitting the entire engine to support it, future maintenance costs of such a service and (which is frequently not considered by players) the cost of opportunity (aka the time we spend on this …

Now that the expansion is out - which skills will be nerfed first?

The backend changes are the new renderer that is now out. We are not planning any sort of always online components. The game is primarily singleplayer. A closed multiplayer setup would require fundamental changes to the game engine, not to mention server costs, customer service, upkeep, etc. It’s a monumental task, and one that would have had to happen early on, not when the game is years old.

There are probably more, but I think they make the point.