Hasnt it always required Xbox live to play multiplayer games or is that including single player games also cause that would suck, I usually dont keep up the membership since I only play alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
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Hasnt it always required Xbox live to play multiplayer games or is that including single player games also cause that would suck, I usually dont keep up the membership since I only play alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
From the sounds of it, for your Xbox to work at all you need to have an internet connection on a daily basis.
A daily 2min DRM mode, the rumours are true (well kinda)Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
I'd have my console online 24/7 anyway, so that doesn't bother me in the slightest. I know this is flogging the dead four-legged running animal a bit, but is always-on really such a bad thing? Steam pretty much requires us to be online, by having a hopeless offline system, but there are very few complaints there.. D3 and SC2 both require always-on connections to progress in the game, but we've accepted that..
I guess the XBOX360 and PS3 were something more than XBOX/PS2 with better hardware?Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
Our internet goes down at least twice a year for days thanks to Telkom, so yes that type of DRM would be a huge issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Avatar
Not to mention the fact that not everyone has access to a proper ADSL line (this is not an isolated thing, which is probably why Sony didn't even consider it), which means their internet connectivity is less reliable... Sure, always-on is acceptable (read not an incovenience) for people who have proper uninterrupted access to the internet, but what does it do as a feature that it would have to be included at the detriment of people who won't be able to meet its requirements?Quote:
Originally Posted by Isengard
I get that always-on internet isn't.. erm.. always on, but what I'm getting at is that we've accepted it in other formats/forms. If you don't explicitly log Steam out to offline mode and the internet dies, guess what? You're screwed out of your Steam library until you're online again.. But we've become accustomed to this and tolerate it. And tether our phones for emergencies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Isengard
I'm not trying to say that this is a brilliant idea, just that maybe it's not worth boycotting the console over.
Yeah, I agree, Its not the end of the world. At worse it will be a little inconvenient if your internet is down for a few days. guess I will just play pc games or go outside. :P As you said, steam, pretty shit without the internet yet we still get by.Quote:
Originally Posted by Avatar
I've been able to log into Steam's offline mode numerous times when my internet was unavailable for long stretches of time without logging off explicitly to offline mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by Avatar
See, the problem is, our complacence has made this the acceptable norm when it shouldn't be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gir
An excerpt from a report about Sony's consideration of Always-on:
This is just as true for people (regardless of their country's internet capabilities) and not just countries.Quote:
“Did we consider it? No, we didn’t consider it," said Yoshida. "The main reason being that many countries don’t have robust Internet connections. It makes sense for people to have Internet connections to play online games, but for offline games there are many countries that we saw [that] do not really have robust Internet.”