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How to force users to update before playing the game?

A topic by mwalinoroozi created Aug 12, 2024 Views: 126 Replies: 2
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Hello guys I hope that you are doing fine. My question is exactly as described here.  Since That topic is closed I could not ask for more details. So I created a similar post in hope to recieve a more detailed explanation. 

My game is multiplayer and I want to force the player to have the latest version of the game. Is there any way to enforce that using ich.io built-in tools? do I have to delve into HTTP and . . . requests to deal with this issue? 

Thank you very much. 

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Does this not depend heavily on the type of multiplayer? If there is a server running you can reject login with the error message, that they need to update.

If it is p2p you can enforce versions only connecting to the same version.

Since there is no inbuilt multiplayer support on Itch, there is also no way to enforce anything. It must happen after the user runs the app. And to do any multiplayer thing, the app needs to connect somewhere.

Maybe I am thinking too naive here, but this sounds like the type of thing, that is usually a non issue and questions like this should not even arise. If there is version incompatibility, this should be dealt with at the latest when trying to connect to the multiplayer facilities.

Thank you very much for your Reply. I found exactly what I needed Here

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