Its not like that a multiplayer feature improves the quality of a game anyways. you pay for whats offered and not what you want to have implemented in the future. If you dont think that the game has impeccable value because its missing one feature then dont buy it, simple as that. so if they decide they want to make a single player game then it will be that way. The thing is more like its their game and their project. If they choose not to do it, that’s their choice but asking them to work on a product that they are selling, assuming they aren’t in it for entirely profit, isn’t unreasonable or implausible. If I pay for a service or an object, it is the person’s job who is behind that service or object to deliver on the quality, so I don’t see it as rude to ask the developers to do something difficult or intensive for the game. Especially when I buy a game, I will willingly give my feedback to voice my opinion in hopes the game gets adapted to the way I would like it and that my voice is added to the undoubted thousands of others because positive or negative feedback is always helpful. When I pay for something, I want the highest quality possible. While I don’t claim to fully know the complexity of the coding behind making the game multiplayer, I will say this. I personally think the game would be better if you could chill out with you friends and farm, much like Stardew Valley. Second of all, I don’t know why you’re so up in arms about this. SR is a very unconventional game and multiplayer support would require a very creative solution.įirst of all, toxic lol. And it is worth restating that multiplayer with all of the physics in SR is a very hard problem. So in short, multiplayer is not ruled out, but we can't promise it either. However, anything is possible further out (beyond v1.0) if we continue to see the same level of wonderful support from players as we do now. So we decided to focus on solid single player experience.įor this reason we've stated in our official FAQ that Slime Rancher is being developed as a singleplayer game and there are no plans for multiplayer. And the hundreds of physics-enabled slimes bouncing around on screen needing to be in sync across two or more clients is a fantastically difficult problem to solve. Multiplayer is inherently more complicated and time-consuming to develop. One of those decisions was multiplayer vs singleplayer.
#Slime rancher multiplayer 2018 update#
Of course, if an announcement is made, we’ll be sure to update this post and let you know.Most of Slime Rancher's development was done by two people (we're four now, thanks to your support!) so a lot of decisions were made early on to allow two developers to make a game in a realistic timeframe. While there is some hope that the team could bring multiplayer to Slime Rancher should support from fans for the game remain positive, it’s not looking promising for now. Slime Rancher is a very unconventional game and multiplayer support would require a very creative solution. And it is worth restating that with all of the physics in Slime Rancher it’s a very hard problem. So in short, multiplayer is not ruled out, but we can’t promise it either. However, anything is possible in the future if we continue to see the same level of wonderful support from players as we do now. So we decided to focus on solid single player experience.įor this reason we currently have no plans for multiplayer. Most of Slime Rancher’s development was done by two people (we’re four now, thanks to your support!) so a lot of decisions were made early on to allow two developers to make a game in a realistic timeframe. Since we’re seeing a lot of requests for a multiplayer feature from all our new (and awesome/handsome/beautiful) players, we thought it would be a good idea to address it. This is because the team is still small and to bring this feature to this kind of game would be a long and arduous process for a team of four (formerly two). Unfortunately, according to a statement over on the official FAQ from the development team, there are no plans to add this functionality to Slime Rancher.
#Slime rancher multiplayer 2018 full#
With the full release now out for all to try, some players may be wondering if Slime Rancher has a multiplayer mode so you can wrangle Slimes with friends. Slime Rancher has emerged from early access as a pretty solid game, with players enjoying the Slime-wrangling action on both Xbox One and PC.