Its a plane, those things that fly, over a long boring period of time. Perfect time to play a game on a laptop.Originally Posted by Shirou
Its a plane, those things that fly, over a long boring period of time. Perfect time to play a game on a laptop.
It depends on the game. Certain games will be less affected by it because latency doesn't really affect them much - Simcity for example. However if the servers are down for maintenance, so is your game. If your Internet is down, so is your game. Why are the SA Simcity players playing on so many different EU servers? Oh that's right, because we aren't enough for them to warrant a SA server. So that adds an extra 150-200ms to your latency. 150-200ms is ENORMOUS for FPS games, it was also very noticeable in D3. Why should I have to play a game online (when I choose to play alone) with a 150-200ms latency when I could be playing the exact same game offline with zero latency?
Sure, an offline game is more crackable. But by no means does that mean that everybody that asks for offline, only does so because they want to crack the game. I have absolutely no issue with Steam that asks me to login and authenticate online and verifies all of my details but then allows me to play in offline mode should I so decide. Why was no fuss made when HOTS's servers failed several times on launch night? Because people only had to authenticate online, and they could then play the campaign offline. Why is that so bad?
Last edited by Wyzak; 14-03-2013 at 10:35 AM. Reason: typo
When an anti-piracy method is affecting the game for people who legitimately bought it and causing other people not to buy the game, there is obviously something wrong with it!
No reason? There is a reason, just because you disagree with it doesn't mean there isn't a reason. I can give a couple and I don't even care that its always online.
1. 30 minute wait time on launch is good reason not to have always online. I don't believe I should have to wait to be able to play a game.
2. My internet isn't working.... yay I cant play my game!
Edit: And no, I don't download cracked games, ever.
1. Then why do you buy the game on release date? if you know you won't be able to play it when the servers are too busy.
2. Get a better ISP.
Where did I say I bought it on release? I'm giving my reasons on why I think its stupid for this game to be always online considering the history of the game. My ISP is fine.
Then why do you make things up if you did not even have the problems? makes no sense.
Then i can say regarding offline games..
1.) why should i go spent money on a game where everyone else will have a cracked FREE version.
2.) I won't be able to play with any online friends as it's a offline game and had no social abilities to be connected.
oh and most importantly.. my PC Crash i lost my saved games, and then the game just lies to dust, where now my games are fully saved on servers abroad.
Last edited by Shirou; 14-03-2013 at 10:43 AM.
There is only so far you can go with a better ISP, before it won't help anymore. The speed of light is already a serious limitation when it comes to communication. It can circumvent the world 8 times in 1 second. That's 125ms round-trip latency between the opposite sides of the world. ASSSUMING: that you have a 1-hop, straight as an arrow, fibre connection with absolutely no other delays, no contention, no shaping or conversions whatsoever. Which is obviously not possible.
When an anti-piracy method is affecting the game for people who legitimately bought it and causing other people not to buy the game, there is obviously something wrong with it!
So by that logic its ok to have always online drm for SP games? How the fuck does that make any sense.
What game are you referring too?
Yep, and the most active gaming mode is casual gaming. So if you don't like playing casual games online then you are out of luck
When an anti-piracy method is affecting the game for people who legitimately bought it and causing other people not to buy the game, there is obviously something wrong with it!
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