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Is there a reason why people are allowed to play online pvp with old versions?

Could we at least get a warning box saying that this idiot is using an older version?

People only do it to try to take advantage of old mechanics to win, banking on the likely chance their opponent didn't check.

I know I can check the other player's version, but should I really need to do this every single time? Why am I the one inconvenienced instead of the mouth breathers doing this crap?

Every once in a while this happens and it's very frustrating. Most likely if we had a "Warning: Opponent using outdated game version." those buttheads would rarely manage to get a game accepted. Then they would update and quit hoping to trick people.

Please, let's have this feature. Or just require the update to play pvp at all, like almost any other competitive online game.

Bloody ridiculous.

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26 days ago - /u/Zoythrus - Direct link

Originally posted by ThichGaiDep

At this point I think they just don’t care.

We do care. It's just more complicated than you might think.

26 days ago - /u/Zoythrus - Direct link

Originally posted by montyelgato

Could you elaborate? It seems like it would be trivially easy, like something that could be implemented before noon on a Friday. Like less than ten lines of code with a conditional statement to generate the warning message. What am I missing?

This isn't a "we can solve this in code" thing but a "how do we make sure paying players aren't shut out of the game because they didn't update?" sort of thing.

Not every version of the game is always able to be "up to date", like the Switch version, so some form of backwards compatibility has to be available.

26 days ago - /u/Zoythrus - Direct link

Originally posted by montyelgato

That makes sense, but why can't we have a warning message telling us that we will be playing an older version? I would pick different tribes if I knew, for example, that it was going to be pre-naval update. (If there were a message, I'd probably just opt out of playing that game, but at least I would know.)

Sure, I can remember to check the other player's version on every single game and then opt out if I want to. But that's onerous, and why should the burden be on me instead of the people who fail to update? I think it's fairly obvious that updating is easy (usually automatic, unless you turn it off) and the people playing older versions are often doing so with the intention of hoodwinking their opponents.

Plenty of other online games that have paid content require people to have updated versions for pvp specifically. People should of course be able to play old versions against the computer.

Can you share any more details about the company's thinking on this? Thank you by the way for engaging on this.

As of this moment, the answer is "this is still something we're discussing, as it can possibly require dev hours to implement (based on nature of inplementation), but also has potentually larger business ramifications."

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