I tend to agree with Fleet 101.  It would be good if all of the online multiplayer problems--the minidumps, the desyncs, the hosting ability issues, and the ICO downtime--were fixed.  Also, I do think that they have taken a toll on the game's online player counts.

However, I do understand that fixxing all of that requires an investment of pizza and latte-fueled manpower and it makes business sense to focus on the single player aspects of the game, especially on releasing expansions that people will pay for.  Consequently, I don't expect addressing the online multiplayer issues to be a high priority.

... serously please dont post comments to me ever again. You have been disrespectful and just a complete jerk on both posts.

It is not my job to suggest network code's and IP solutions and other tech items. ITS THEIR'S! if they do not want to put time into multiplayer then I suggest to just take it off in the next patch and just admit that they really must not care. I am serious though it this isn't fixed in some way or even taken off I will simply stop buying their products and I will still crusade for this over the comming days.

I've played about 16 games on ICO and never had any disconnection problems - just lag from people with old comps who still like to try to jack their settings up and cross their fingers. Maybe I've just been lucky. I have tried to log in and it says disconnected from ICO so I know that for whatever reason ICO just goes down and is out of commission for a while and that this does happen while people are mid-game and is very frustrating - I don't know if they know the cause of the problem yet but I would like to see it fixed too. I also hope more come to the online multiplayer but I wouldn't bother comparing it to the more mainstream RTS games like Red Alert and hoping for the same numbers - this is an excellent game but more of a niche hybrid game - personally I'm hoping for quality over quantity - as long as people can connect to ICO, there can still be enough of a community of online players to always get a game going. For starters, check out the online tournament Ue-Carbon is trying to organize in the multiplayer threads.

If you post a thread on ANYTHING, expect to get some negative feedback.

lol! yeah it does come across that way.

What I really mean is that if its been out an entire year and they still havn't fixed it then they really havnt tried hard enough. Yet again today I was playing a game online with 4 ppl and we all dysnc after about an hour of gameplay. We had a good game going but after typeing eachother back and forth we relised that the pirates wern't doing the same things on our screans at all.

This is pathetic after one year they havnt fixed it. If you arn't angry about it and your fine with everything I guess thats cool but I have multipule online games that I have played in the past that have a much better experiance than this one and it's just disspointing because I really do like the overall gameplay, but the AI is too dumb to fight with all the time I need real ppl to chalenge me.

So yes I do still demand that they fix this because frankly IT IS THEIR JOB and they have had a year to fix it and still havent.

Games should be easy to play online in the year 2009. If they could do it back in 1999 why can't these guys figure it out 10 years later I mean seriously why arn't you upset?

P.S I'm 100% positive my computer can handle this game and that my internet ports are forwarded properly. I have followed all guildlines for online play listed in the manual and it patches.

Wow... I just read every reply to thsi thread, and I am nto amused. While I am still new to ICO I have not encountered any of these probnlems. But it would seem they are numorous, and they should be taken care of. On the other hand Fleet101 you seem to come off... rather unpleasent. You double post, and demand things you have no understanding about. ALong with just blanently demanding for stuff you do not make any suggestions. I vote we let our friend Fleet here take controll of development and see how he handles it. Who is with me?

And just a side note, The game was severly under hyped. That is why the amount of players on ICO for it seem so lacking. C&C is a very popular RTS, and has been for a long time. Same with any of Blizzard's games such as Starcraft. Now with all the 08 game awards over with, or nearly over with, this game is wuinning a boat load of them. SO hoepfully that will hype it up a fair bit.

Having been here since the 2nd Beta, I tend to think that online play has come a long way.  Being one of people who have that old comp I don't cross my fingers and slow everyone down, I just stay off.  I like to play sins, but people complain about everything.  Some examples are illum spam, seige frig. spam, advent overpowered, all of these things are things that the devs may have to look at and per harps re-evaluate, taking time away from fixing ICO.

I tend to go on occasionally, but keep in mind that this is still a relatively new, widely dispersed game with engrossing content.  I can't really sit down for a 3hr online game.

The multplayer part even has a SAVE option, that I have used and it works wonderfully.

One thing fleet101 that you should consider is that the devs are extremely open to suggestions.  While I think that there are problems with the online system they are working on it and need no more prodding.  I think it was good of you to post something, however keep in mind, if you attack someone you are unlikely to get a happy response.

As has been said by others, a petition is not necessary. IC has been working on a new build of ICO since 1.12 to sort the periodic issues it has been having of late. They've even gone so far as to dedicate everyone for a whole weekend to fixing one sync bug. They are a very small company and are already doing everything they can to resolve any standing issues.

As well, there's no need to double-post the thread.

How's the White Dot Problem coming? Apparently it's been reported for at least 6 months.

You know, I would have mentioned this earlier but it didn't occur to me...

TC, Ironclad provides for your convenience a multiplayer service, robust technical support, and unusually frequent content updates all free of additional charge. That's right, they don't charge you for any of their continued support apart from whatever you paid for Sins in the first place. You are damned lucky to get any of this at all, even with bugs. So before you go demanding a mile for the inch IC's given you, how about you show a little gratitude first?

Enough that I can't recall them all from memory.