UPDATE from Brad Logston, Senior Producer of the Dungeon Defenders Franchise:
Hey Defenders. We have just enabled Single Player and Private Sessions to Dungeon Defenders Eternity tonight.
Turning off Single Player/Private match in our initial release of Eternity was related to our fear that the server costs would be exponential, and cause us to lose significant money. We realize that jeopardizing the loyalty of fans far outweighs the risk of profit - and it was a mistake.
Player hacking was the biggest reported problem on the original Dungeon Defenders. To ensure players aren’t cheating in Dungeon Defenders Eternity, and for our future release of Dungeon Defenders II, we needed to create a connected, always online service hosted in a secure environment. This isn’t about DRM. We want to help players have positive experiences in our games where legitimate time and effort is rewarded and cheaters can’t negatively impact everyone else.
You are our fans. As the posts and threads have ramped up today, we jumped into meetings to figure out what’s the best choice for you. Our plan was to enable Single Player/Private Games once we had a chance to observe our server costs and analytics. Today threw that delay out the window, so our team worked diligently throughout the morning and afternoon to re-enable the feature. That patch is now live, and combined with improvements to our matchmaking service, players should be able to access Single Player/Private games right now.
When it’s all said and done, we’re truly grateful for all your feedback. We’ve been building Dungeon Defenders 2 directly with our Defense Council for many months, and as many will attest, we constantly make changes based on their influence. We make the same covenant with you on Eternity, and promise we’ll keep working and updating our games to provide a fun, positive, exciting experience.
Thanks for being such passionate fans and expect more fixes and changes in the coming days. In the meantime, please continue to provide us your feedback and we’ll keep listening.
Cheers!
Brad Logston
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Old Post:
After updating, you will now be able to play in private sessions. Simply click the "Host private session" in the play menu. While hosting a session you can invite your friends through playverse to join your game or you can play by yourself. You can also create a party through playverse and kick off a private session to play just with your party.