“adding vast advantages for the medium”
Okay not really sure what advantages there are for me personally. I prefer to own my games…install them on my laptop that I take with me to remote places without my trusty ADSL connection so that I can play offline when I want to. Even on my desktop with my wired connection I’d really prefer to bypass the silly online platform altogether to gain access to my preferred games (which are almost always essentially single player only games). Disadvantages on the other hand…well I can think of many there:
– Company X decides it will no longer keep the servers for Game Y online. Wanna play it again? Sorry for you.
– Constant internet connection required (a.k.a Always Online). Feel like playing from your secret hideout 20,000 leagues under the sea? Sorry for you.
– Internet a little laggy today? Perhaps a cable was chewed on by a shark or something? Maybe you just ran out of bandwidth? Sorry for you.
– Little sister playing Barbie – Extreme makeover 9 online and eating all the bandwidth with that new wardrobe being downloaded while you want to just get into your single player campaign of Jimmy Eats Noobs 19 : Powered Hunger? Sorry for you.
– New game Z3419T…6 was all dandy but now they’ve…naaa I can’t anymore lol.
Anyway I don’t like it – companies obviously do so in the end of the day it’ll mean I just need to stick to the classics if everyone heads the “cloud” way.
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“adding vast advantages for the medium”
Okay not really sure what advantages there are for me personally. I prefer to own my games…install them on my laptop that I take with me to remote places without my trusty ADSL connection so that I can play offline when I want to. Even on my desktop with my wired connection I’d really prefer to bypass the silly online platform altogether to gain access to my preferred games (which are almost always essentially single player only games). Disadvantages on the other hand…well I can think of many there:
– Company X decides it will no longer keep the servers for Game Y online. Wanna play it again? Sorry for you.
– Constant internet connection required (a.k.a Always Online). Feel like playing from your secret hideout 20,000 leagues under the sea? Sorry for you.
– Internet a little laggy today? Perhaps a cable was chewed on by a shark or something? Maybe you just ran out of bandwidth? Sorry for you.
– Little sister playing Barbie – Extreme makeover 9 online and eating all the bandwidth with that new wardrobe being downloaded while you want to just get into your single player campaign of Jimmy Eats Noobs 19 : Powered Hunger? Sorry for you.
– New game Z3419T…6 was all dandy but now they’ve…naaa I can’t anymore lol.
Anyway I don’t like it – companies obviously do so in the end of the day it’ll mean I just need to stick to the classics if everyone heads the “cloud” way.