No LAN or Dedicated Servers for BioShock 2 Multiplayer

How dare 2K Games turn its back on the PC multiplayer community that made BioShock ... oh ... uh ... that's right. Well, they confirmed that BioShock 2 won't support LAN gaming or dedicated servers anyway.

In a Q&A on multiplayer posted at the Cult of Rapture, 2K explained their absence as a matter of ordering priorities within a limited time for development:

Bringing Multiplayer to BioShock was a daunting task between the tech (there was no multiplayer support in the codebase from the first game) and the expectations of the community. Either you try to do everything and so nothing feels finished or you focus your efforts to do a smaller number of things really well like an accessible online experience.

The rest of the Q&A offers more details on how multiplayer will work on all three platforms for this game, which releases Feb. 9.

BioShock 2 Multiplayer and Matchmaking Q&A [Cult of Rapture]

Ew... thanks for this... glad im holding off now.

No problem for me, i'm only getting it for the SP experience :D

Why are you glad? 

All this seems to mean is that they're focusing on making the game itself better instead of a tacked on multiplayer.

Didnt expect less from a n00b

oh well, i was getting the game for the single player NOT the MP, still going to play the MP tho :P

Yeah... but i was looking forward to many multiplayer options this time around aswell as a story on par with the original.

Bah, Quake 3, Satelite map, Rail Guns only. Are you up for the challenge? :P

Who cares about the multiplayer anyway?

Alien vs Predator will be better than this... just a hunch when looking at all the delays, multiple studios working on the game and news like this.