1st August 2011, 7:06 PM
Great Rumbler Wrote:Ubisoft has been doing that for a while and most people really hate it.
Capcom has recently dipped their toes into it. It really annoyed a lot of players. Their worst offense was dragging it into the console world when their new Bionic Commando game required online access to play, even though it's an entirely solo experience. I haven't heard if they undid that, but they did for the PC version of Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition (Really Capcom? This again? In the age of major content patches and DLC, selling the same game over and over with minor additions just isn't excusable). In SSF4A, it started out with that ridiculous restriction, but Capcom listened to complaints (eventually) and released a patch removing that restriction. Good for them.
Ubisoft also removed that requirement from SOME games, but they are now claiming that it is making a "real difference in pirating". (How? Those games were patched on day one. Prove it Ubisoft because we aren't going to take your work for it.) In other words, expect them to be even more adamant about this method.
Ugh.
Oh, here's my favorite quote.
"I want to play Diablo 3 on my laptop in a plane, but, well, there are other games to play for times like that."
So, are you heartily recommending I just buy Torchlight 2 instead of your game then? Because, unless you have NO idea what you sound like, that seems like a recommendation of a competitor's product.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)