Several reasons. GTA (1 or 2) is not a game suited to multiplay in the same way Quake is - there are thousands of objects (cars, pedestrians, as well as physical objects) that must all be kept track of - by all players.
They will run well on any half decent LANs, and modem-modem play is usable, but we hold our hands up and admit that Internet play is abysmal. At the start we had to make a conscious choice between designing primarily for multiplayer or single player. And the moment you do any market analysis, the average game overwhelmingly sells on its single player. Quake 3 and UT are currently trying to turn this around, but the fact remains the majority of gamers are not yet into multiplayer games. Sad, but true. C. > Question : why does everyone say that GTA and GTA2 have dog-slow network > play? I had a go once and yes, it was dog slow for me also. > But presumably the folk at DMA designed the network game to be at least > playable. Whereas I've only ever seen it running at like 5 frames per > second. Do DMA just have some crazy gigabit ethernet? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 1:46 PM > Subject: Re: Colin M's book? > > > > I'm afraid it's not been worked on for many a month now. Basically, ever > since I started at DMA it's barely been touched - and with the last twelve > months finishing off GTA2, it has never once been looked at. > > > > It still remains one of my ambitions to complete it, and have it published > in some form - even on the web - to immortalise a few facts / people / > stories. But given the time it'll take to whip into shape, I have no idea > when this would be. > > > > If anyone wants to contribute anything to it however - their own personal > perspective of SAM, stories they overheard, rumours they'd like clarifying, > "where are they now" type questions, feel free.... > > > > C. > > > > > > > > How about "Whatever happened to Colin MacDonald's planned book on the > background > > > story to the SAM, MGT, SAMCo, West Coast, etc, etc...?" Sounded like a > dead > > > interesting project! > > > > > > Nick > > > (hoping it will be something along the lines of a Private Eye for the > SAM > > > community) > > > > > >
