Only the slugs at Apolyton could manage to get people to pay [to much money] for a single computer game. Why wasn't CivIII multiplayer from the start like CivII? Easy. It wasn't multiplayer because they wanted to make saps pay [even more money] in order to get the "play the world" expansion![Not considered an Exspansion]Avoid this product like the plague and buy CivII instead.