I vaguely recalled DoW was a Gamespy Arcade game so did a bit of googling
Looks like most versions removed that when Gamespy Arcade shut down… 11 years ago? steamcommunity.com/app/…/522728268959131532/ and reddit.com/…/lan_multiplayer_patched_out_of_souls…
Been more than a minute since I tried DoW online but other games of the era basically used Gamespy Arcade as a drop in server browser. So if they were just switching to Steam/GoG for that, it really depends on what kind of LAN support those packages have.
So… annoying but doesn’t seem unique to this release?
otter@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yeah, that’s stopping me from getting it. This was the first game I played after getting my first graphics card, and I was really hoping to enjoy it without this BS.