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Why Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has no multiplayer

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming next year, and unlike many games that features guns and shooting, it won’t be released with a superfluous multiplayer mode attached to it. It’s something I’m rather glad about, as tacked-on multiplayer modes tend to harm single-player RPG experiences instead of add to it.

That’s pretty much how the chaps at Eidos Montreal feel too. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided gameplay director Patrick Fortier has said that the studio isn’t willing to dabble with just yet – unless, of course, it was central to the Deus Ex experience.

“If we were to go in that direction it would have to be the topic of the game itself,” he said in an interview with OXM (via GamesRadar)

“I don’t think it’s something that can be tacked on and supported sufficiently well through a third party developer, out of the office. It has to be fundamental right from day one that you’re trying to do that. You have to have the right idea and the right vehicle.”

Mankind Divided tackles a heavy themes of segregation – and I’m all for keeping multiplayer out of my single player RPGs. While I do think a multiplayer experience in the Deus Ex universe could indeed work, it would – loathe as I am to admit it – probably work best as a free-to-play game external to any single player games with the same setting.

That said, Eidos thinks it would be possible, taking a few cues from Mass effect 3’s rather good multiplayer mode.

“Mass effect 3’s multiplayer is a very good experience,” Fortier notes. “It’s proof that it can be done. I’m not saying that we can’t do it, but you know [BioWare is] in the fourth iteration [of its game] now, almost, whereas we’re only on the second of ours.

There’s a lot of learning we need to go through! In the future, I think if we were to go in that direction it would have to be the topic of the game itself. The way we’re applying the formula, in the sense of the narrative component [impacting] all across the different disciplines, I think it would have to be that it makes sense story-wise.”

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One 2016.

Last Updated: July 21, 2015

14 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    July 21, 2015 at 07:35

    Well it’s not like we could be Mankind Divided if we’re all playing together.

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    • Geoffrey Tim

      July 21, 2015 at 07:39

      It is if you’re shooting at each other. ;P

      Reply

    • Dutch Matrix

      July 21, 2015 at 07:52

      LoL. I just love how you think mankind can play together…

      Reply

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        July 21, 2015 at 08:07

        I’m an eternal optimist.

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    • Brady miaau

      July 21, 2015 at 09:48

      Have you met people (internet peoples)? you know, the mensch, out there.

      play together? No. not them. What do they care. Hah. People.

      Reply

  2. justlikemo

    July 21, 2015 at 07:47

    I like, at least we can play a game where we will not have to connect to a server in Siberia to play, hence no network complaints.

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    • Dutch Matrix

      July 21, 2015 at 07:50

      Only you will have to login to a server in Ethiopia to register your game. And that server is a Pentium 1 with 8MB of Ram and a 342b/s line.

      Reply

      • justlikemo

        July 21, 2015 at 07:53

        hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhaha

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        July 21, 2015 at 08:06

        How did you find out where they host the uPlay servers?

        Reply

  3. Dutch Matrix

    July 21, 2015 at 07:53

    Wait what? A game with NO MULTIPLAYER???!!! Sweet Lords above this is a day of miracles!

    Reply

  4. Admiral Chief in Skellige

    July 21, 2015 at 08:08

    Good

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    • Skyblue

      July 21, 2015 at 12:54

      Summed up in a single word, well done.

      Reply

  5. Jonah Cash

    July 21, 2015 at 08:30

    Just for the love of all things give me a good story. This years games make me feel like I have to work to get to the story which is pissing me off!

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  6. Tacky

    July 21, 2015 at 11:20

    “I don’t think it’s something that can be tacked on and supported
    sufficiently well through a third party developer, out of the office.”

    Meanwhile the PC version will be tacked on by a third party developer, out of office.

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