Bull pucky. Network play can be made to work without the use of fixed assets. For DS1 and DS2, I lay the blame of a hobbled game straight at GoG's feet. For every other game I have bought from them they have gone above and beyond to bring the same features and playability to their version. There is no excuse for releasing a game with better than half its playability ripped out versus the original without notice. They should have presented a multiplayer available game, should have mentioned on the sales page in big bold letters there was no multiplayer, or they shouldn't have sold it at all.

However easy it is to hobble multiplayer back together, I shouldn't have to! I am not in the habit of paying money for a problem.

I never thought I would say this about GoG, but I feel really ripped off.

Further GoG purchases are DISABLED.

I own the trilogy on steam, and the limitations are exactly the same. No expansions for I and II and single player only.
So laying the blame on Gog seems unwarranted.

Well, a short update on my previous post: our ISPs do not like each other very much, so we ended up having really weird network problems, unrelated to the game itself.

The solution was ZeroTier, a Virtual LAN program. With it, we were able to connect to a game I hosted normally, and next week we'll start playing the Utraean Peninsula properly :)

Thanks for this! I got DS for the 75% off recently and remembered that I could play as a skeleton! Then I launched it and realized it was only for multiplayer =(. Well, with this, I can now launch a campaign in a local network allowing me to play as a skeleton!

I'd go farther than saying the disabled multiplayer is a huge let-down. In the original DS1 (which I still have CD copies of), the multiplayer mode let you host local LAN games. Gameranger and other solutions make that perfectly usable still. You could also host a LAN game and play the multiplayer map, the Utraean Peninsula, alone if you wanted to.

On top of that - the Utraean Peninsula MP map is LARGER and has MORE content than the singleplayer Ehb map. Without access to that map, DS1 is missing over half its content. For a game that is being sold as the complete original, that is... not okay.

I used to play dungeonsiege 2 in co-op mode years ago, it was tonns of fun, but then i lost the disks.

So, some time back i purchased it on Steam, but that version wont run. Every so often i check back to see if they patched it to work yet, NOPE.

Now i am thinking of buying it on GOG, but not if the Co-OP LAN option is a bit iffy??

I do not understand how to make workarounds work, i just want a game that i can install and it will work.

I didn't see this mentioned anywhere else in this thread, but following some other instructions from elsewhere on the internet, you can also use any of these options (just put a space between each option in GOG):

nointro=true
Custom Width and Height: (Change to your desired resolution but leave in "bpp=32")
width=1920 height=1080 bpp=32
Boot into Multiplayer menu: (This also skips intros.)
zonematch=true
Play in a window:
fullscreen=false