# \[1.2.26\] Multiplayer already in March? Please NO **URL:** \ **Category:** Brainstorm with Kjun\ **Created:** [January 2, 2026, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690 "2026-01-02T14:08:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LennyOgg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/lennyogg/32/159_2.png) [@LennyOgg](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/LennyOgg)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/1 "2026-01-02T14:08:35Z")
There we have it, the game for Solo Players is lacking and bugging more than ever before - but in March, Multiplayer is already starting -.- **inZOI-online Roadmap 2026** Development Direction There are still many unresolved questions that must be validated through internal and external testing to confirm the value of online features. inZOI-online is being developed while continuously migrating and matching the base game, which makes the work both broad and technically challenging. Because this is a new direction for the genre, we are also starting from fundamentals such as defining the target audience. We genuinely hope youʼll enjoy inZOI-online, and throughout 2026 we want to discuss results and direction—based on testing—with the community and build it together. Schedule **January 2026** Create and save your account-linked personal character (“Zoi”). Add save-and-resume for hosted sessions, allowing hosts to pause a session and resume it later from the same state. **February 2026** Build the online Main, Plaza, and Lobby/Waiting Room pages on the web. Add new channels for online use and provide online chat rooms. Update the online-only “My Zoi” feature. 👎 **March 2026** Freely decorate your own house and save it to your account. Allow other users to enter your house and play together. **June 2026** Provide tools for the room host to adjust game rules and manage participants. Enable players to enjoy official inZOI mods together in online multiplayer. **October 2026** Support large-scale multiplayer with dedicated servers, including content such as visiting major cities. Enable hundreds to thousands of concurrent players per server to explore, watch, meet others, and make friends. ---
**Author:** ![Liessahl](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/liessahl/32/66_2.png) [@Liessahl](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/Liessahl)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/2 "2026-01-02T15:15:37Z")
He also mentioned it’s being worked on by a separate team: > The Beyond the Fundamentals 2026 Roadmap is being driven by a dedicated internal team working in parallel with the existing core development team. > This work is designed to expand our capabilities without reducing focus, resources, or staffing on ongoing core improvements. ---
**Author:** ![LennyOgg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/lennyogg/32/159_2.png) [@LennyOgg](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/LennyOgg)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/3 "2026-01-02T15:21:05Z")
Seeing how almost every aspect got worse since the October/December updates, I doubt that. ---
**Author:** ![Liessahl](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/liessahl/32/66_2.png) [@Liessahl](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/Liessahl)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/4 "2026-01-02T15:36:03Z")
You think he’s lying about having a separate team working on it? If you don’t believe a direct, explicit statement from the lead dev, I guess there’s no reason to trust anything else on the roadmap either, including the multiplayer timetable. ---
**Author:** ![LennyOgg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/lennyogg/32/159_2.png) [@LennyOgg](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/LennyOgg)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/5 "2026-01-02T16:02:26Z")
I think that’s also why the graphics get worse for all of us, because they need to be to allow hundreds and thousands players on a server. ---
**Author:** ![LennyOgg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/lennyogg/32/159_2.png) [@LennyOgg](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/LennyOgg)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/6 "2026-01-02T16:07:03Z")
Omg and also the distance culling! There is no such thing as developing multiplayer separated, it affects the solo players in more ways than we can imagine. ---
**Author:** ![LennyOgg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/lennyogg/32/159_2.png) [@LennyOgg](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/LennyOgg)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/7 "2026-01-02T16:09:31Z")
And the streets being all empty all over again, all sacrifices for making multiplayer stable. ---
**Author:** ![Liessahl](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/liessahl/32/66_2.png) [@Liessahl](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/Liessahl)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/8 "2026-01-02T16:16:10Z")
I don’t like those changes either, but I don’t see any evidence they’re anything to do with multiplayer. More likely they’re just struggling to find a good balance between simulation and performance, which they already mentioned was a difficult issue. The way he’s describing multiplayer, it sounds like it’ll be completely separate from the singleplayer (e.g. having to create a specific personal character for online play and log in through a lobby / waiting room). ---
**Author:** ![Nyami](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/nyami/32/13095_2.png) [@Nyami](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/Nyami)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/9 "2026-01-02T17:28:41Z")
Multiplayer is a mistake. I don’t see it working out in the long run. This is a very, very poor choice of a feature to focus on. I hope the devs can reconsider their priorities. ---
**Author:** ![Samuriko](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/samuriko/32/15564_2.png) [@Samuriko](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/Samuriko)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/10 "2026-01-02T18:35:52Z")
The only good multiplayer would be 2-4 players playing a family each or the same one for fun little sessions. Other than that I don’t care much for it and there’s far more important things than that. If it starts dragging the whole game down (graphics, performance, weird changes for no reason) then I am 100% against it even if it would be cool to do a coop every now and then. There’s little I can do about it, but I do find it odd that this would happen already while half the game is not done yet, and the stuff that’s done got stripped out or altered for worse version than how it felt pre-0.2.0 or pre-0.3.0… heck even the basic gameplay with needs depletion over time got nerfed for some artificial enforcement of the 8am-10pm lifestyle, complete with dinner at 12 and supper at 6pm. Like Multiplayer should not be heavily invested in until the game finds it’s polish back. IMHO ---
**Author:** ![mxmun20](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/mxmun20/32/71_2.png) [@mxmun20](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/mxmun20)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/11 "2026-01-02T20:34:37Z")
They need to stop this. There are too many shortcomings. Vehicles and Zoilers constantly disappear due to distance culling. Optimization is poor; streets feel empty and lifeless after updates. I think they need to fix these things first. ---
**Author:** ![JoyIsFunner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/joyisfunner/32/8276_2.png) [@JoyIsFunner](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/JoyIsFunner)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/12 "2026-01-02T20:58:17Z")
A server can have lower graphics, has nothing to do with us playing solo in our preexisting worlds on our pcs with our graphics abilities imo ---
**Author:** ![JoyIsFunner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/joyisfunner/32/8276_2.png) [@JoyIsFunner](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/JoyIsFunner)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/13 "2026-01-02T21:02:12Z")
I agree, they should have a solid foundation first 👍 ---
**Author:** ![PoustyX](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/poustyx/32/71_2.png) [@PoustyX](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/PoustyX)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/14 "2026-05-28T16:33:46Z")
Currently, we’re almost in June. And the promised co-op feature: “Freely decorate your own house and save it to your account. Allow other users to enter your house and play together.” is still not available. ---
**Author:** ![PoizonPickle](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/poizonpickle/32/70_2.png) [@PoizonPickle](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/PoizonPickle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/15 "2026-05-28T16:51:58Z")
I genuinely hope they never add the multiplayer. It would be such a mess and would probably affect the performance. None of the online life sim games ever worked out and there’s a reason for it. ---
**Author:** ![Mazikeen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/mazikeen/32/17126_2.png) [@Mazikeen](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/Mazikeen)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/16 "2026-05-28T18:17:59Z")
A large number of bugs may appear. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![eksynn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/eksynn/32/64_2.png) [@eksynn](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/eksynn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/17 "2026-10-04T20:06:40Z")
it’s better to release multiplayer early, to use it as a foundation rather than a thin layer that just connects pc’s in a flimsy way. and the earlier the better too, to fix any bugs that will certainly come with it. as for those hoping they never add multiplayer, they already said one, it’s being worked by a separate team so it won’t be an issue with performance that isn’t already an issue, and two, you can just… NOT play the multiplayer aspect of the game. it’ll still be, as stated, a single-player-focus game. ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/krafton/user_avatar/forum.playinzoi.com/robert/32/68_2.png) [@Robert](https://forum.playinzoi.com/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.playinzoi.com/t/topic/8690/18 "2026-10-09T07:01:43Z")
Certainly nothing of interest there for me , I wouldnt want possibly hundreds or thousands of people wandering into my house , I play this game my way not how other players may want me to play it