Probably not but you can still easily host private games as long as you're not planning on doing matchmaking with randoms. I have it and it's eh... alright. It's fun but there are still a lot of issues, and that fucking campaign UI is just godawful. It's better than both Empire and Napoleon, but I think it falls short of Shogun 2 in terms of smoothness, balance and optimization. Either way, try it b4 u buy it.