Multi-Player in Deus Ex 2

To:  Ionstorm Austin

Multiplayer Petition To Ionstorm Austin

Or “OI ISA We want MP in DX2!”

After the release of Deus Ex Ionstorm decided to release the Development tools they used in its creation. This has become standard practice now many commercial games in the hopes that Modifications will elongate the shelf life of their product.

Shortly after this ISA released the first Multi-Player patch to the public. The patch (once it reached a stable version) was very well received but was unable to compete with the likes of Counter Strike and ‘established’ games like UT.

This did not make DXMP bad.

In fact DXMP was and still is very, very good. Spoiled slightly by cheating and a lack of fast servers the DXMP community still carries on with its clans and with organisations like the Deus Ex League. Dozens of new maps were made by the DX community and a good proportion of these showed real excellence.

The DX community is dying though and with it DXMP. Since Deus Ex didn’t ship with Multi-Player and for a very long time it was only available as a rather large download it totally failed to attract the casual gamer. They would buy the game, play the single player campaign and move on.

The DX community doesn’t represent all the people that bought Deus Ex and enjoyed it, we are just the dedicated few who believe in the game so strongly we spend more time than we should making it something more than it is.

Looking towards Deus Ex 2 we saw great things, the promise of an even greater single player experience thrills us and we know Ionstorm can pull it off. The news; however, that DX2 will not have Multi-Player seems like a step in the wrong direction. DXMP needs little improvement, a few more game modes emphasising Team play and Objectives would greatly improve an already excellent formula (DXMP cries out for CTF and Domination games).

To include Multi-Player and the SDK on release of DX2 would greatly improve the games longevity, encourage even more mods and perhaps make it the perfect game. Deus Ex was marked down for not including Multi-Player when it was so obvious that the skills and augs would give it such a huge edge over the competition.

Learn a lesson from Grey Matter who gave Nerve Software the Multi-Player side of Return To Castle Wolfenstein to do with as they pleased and produced one of the best Multi-Player games in the last year.

I’m sure everybody will happily wait longer for DX2 with Multi-Player.

We’d hate to see Ionstorm make the same mistake twice.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Multi-Player in Deus Ex 2 Petition to Ionstorm Austin was created by The Deus Ex Community and written by Robert Hale aka SchizoSlayer.  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no express or implied endorsement of this petition by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. The petition scripts are created by Mike Wheeler at Artifice, Inc.  For Technical Support please use our simple Petition Help form.

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