I stated on stardocks forums that I would not purchase gal civ 2 if they didn't put in multiplayer. I still feel that it's a horrible horrible slight to the fans of mutiplayer 4x games. But when I found out that they were not going to put copy protection of any kind on the game... I went out and bought it immediately. They don't even have a cd check on the game. And it's that kind of flying-in-the-face-of-convention that I just have to support.