{"id":113491,"date":"2016-12-09T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113491"},"modified":"2016-12-09T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T05:53:38","slug":"you-cant-play-super-mario-run-without-an-internet-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/113491-you-cant-play-super-mario-run-without-an-internet-connection","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t play Super Mario Run without an internet connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto said that gamers will need an internet connection to play Super Mario Run.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/12\/08\/super-mario-run-shigeru-miyamoto-interview\/#nm3WWwyIciqV\" target=\"_blank\">Mashable<\/a><\/strong>, Miyamoto explained the design choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to be able to leverage that network connection with all three of the [<em>Super Mario Run<\/em>] modes to keep all of the modes functioning together and offering the game in a way that keeps the software secure,&#8221; said Miyamoto.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But actually, the security element is one of the reasons that we decided to go with iPhone and iOS first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s three modes apparently require an internet connection to communicate and function effectively, as well as save data on the network.<\/p>\n<p>Miyamoto also said this always-online requirement has been built into the software as an ant-piracy measure.<\/p>\n<p>This means that you will not be able to play Super Mario Run anywhere\u00a0without a Wi-Fi or data connection.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Denuvo DRM being patched out of older games\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/113475-denuvo-drm-being-patched-out-of-older-games.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Denuvo DRM being patched out of older games<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto said that gamers will need an internet connection to play Super Mario Run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":113141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,6],"tags":[31,23533],"class_list":["post-113491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-super-mario-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113493,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113491\/revisions\/113493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}