Quite a few basic noob questions.

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The main reason for the King's Bounty series not going online is the fact that it's just not even remotely wide-spread and well-known enough to give a satisfying coverage of users. Multiplayer games die because of not enough users. Looking at the sold copies of the series so far it doesn't even remotely justify even looking into a multiplayer option ^^ of course many developers don't understand this mechanism and fall on their asses with their attempts at making their small niche SP game into a MP variant. Like the Patrician series for example or Tropico 3. Big fail ! Servers are deserted.

But it would've been mighty cool, I agree.

How will HoMM VI compare ? Well, considering that King's Bounty (the original from 1991) is the official predecessor of HoMM I they don't really have to be compared. It's basically the same game/world/idea/system with, of course, variations. Wait and see I'd say.