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Best Diablo 3 Announcement reaction gifs ever...
fallacy:
--- Quote ---Nope. But I would stop shopping there if at any time they could decide to take their product back. Or render it useless by going out of business.
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--- Quote ---Intrusive is putting mandatory authentication in my single-player game so I can't play it when I'm on the road or years later when the company shuts down their servers.
I just found my missing disc from Grim Fandango so I can finally play it again. I'd be pretty pissed if I couldn't because the authentication servers were gone.
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You’re really that worried about playing it once 10 years later? Fail, concern is fail...Pfff I am sure at that point someone will make a hack version that you could play in an emulator or watever.
You do realize the price of the game is the same as you dish out to your internet provider every month. We are not talking a sizable investment for your entertainment her.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Samstag on April 28, 2012, 07:34:00 pm ---Draw Something is a multiplayer game and one you don't even need to pay for. You can't play it without an internet connection, so if they want to authenticate every session of your free game I wouldn't have any problem with that.
Intrusive is putting mandatory authentication in my single-player game so I can't play it when I'm on the road or years later when the company shuts down their servers.
I just found my missing disc from Grim Fandango so I can finally play it again. I'd be pretty pissed if I couldn't because the authentication servers were gone.
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You miss the point. It doesn't matter whether Draw Something was free or whether I paid $1000 for it. Either way, I wouldn't know whether it's phoning home. Obviously it is because it's an online game, but the point is, it's totally transparent. It's not like I have a dial-up modem and must connect to the internet. I'm already connected. 24-hours per day. The game just uses that open door.
As for on the road, it's just a made up thing. Honestly it is. A #1 you don't actually play games on the road that aren't on your phone/iPad. Hypothetically yes, but realistically . . . it doesn't happen. Let's be honest. And even if I'm wrong, where are you playing that you don't have internet these days? You have to be literally on the road, cos god knows your hotel has free Wi-Fi (and even then there's a good chance you've got mobile hotspot on your phone). Are you driving? Cos you probably don't need to be playing Diablo 3 while you drive. It's just a hypothetical to get up in arms about--but the chances of it affecting you are actually near zero.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Malenko on April 28, 2012, 10:05:23 pm ---Anyone who is ok with always on line internet connectivity as DRM doesnt have comcast as an ISP
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Comcast is my internet provider since I moved here in October and my internet has gone down exactly zero times since then. Maybe it'll go down tomorrow, but even so, once every six months ain't that bad.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 28, 2012, 10:28:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Malenko on April 28, 2012, 10:05:23 pm ---Anyone who is ok with always on line internet connectivity as DRM doesnt have comcast as an ISP
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Comcast is my internet provider since I moved here in October and my internet has gone down exactly zero times since then. Maybe it'll go down tomorrow, but even so, once every six months ain't that bad.
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exceptions to every rule. Perhaps I'm jaded because I used to work for them, or I'm jaded cause its dropped 3 times this year alone.
Vigo:
ooh, dont get me started at how bad my internet was when I was with comcast.....not to mention the monthly bill. I also don't miss the bandwidth throttling.