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Originally Posted by trenken
You're a special situation though, you're travelling on business and playing on your laptop in hotels. Safe to say you're way down in the minority there.
Fact is most PC gamers these days have PCs that are always connected to the internet on broadband, so games are being made for them now.
I know a lot of PC gamers, all of them are on the internet 24/7, Ubi is well aware of this.
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I understand a large percentage of North American and European gamers are on Internet conenctions 24/7. But aside from guys who travel like me, there are also a lot of subsimmers in countries like Topo65 above where satellite Internet connectivity gets spotty and goes down at times including a lot of the third world and even many developed countries. I have seen occassional service outages when traveling to several places in the Middle East and Asia. If you are US military or a contractor in Iraq or Afghanistan, service availability also gets dicey at times too.
PC Gamers in the US and Europe take good infrastructure for granted.
I used to be a fan of the Total War series. The latest total war game, Empire, uses Steam. Even with Steam, I can occassioanlly be online to authenticate the game and then play offline when I travel. But Steam authentication pops up so frequently that I don't even really play that game any more. Last year I got stuck in a hotel in Dubai for 24-hours due to a missed plane conenction and was unable to get an Internet conenction. (Dubai mind you, not exactly some third world country!) Steam was at a point where it would not let me play offline. I decided that was it. F''' Steam! I played SH3. I uninstalled Empire and haven't loaded it back on since.
UBI needs to very seriously rethink this one.
Wolfpacks, ending in 1943, and all that other stuff I can contend with. I'd still buy the game, hoping that the Modding community can improve it and get it where we want it. But any requirement for active internet conenctivity is a DEAL BREAKER.
Well, I guess this was the inspiration I needed to get back to work on my mod. I was working the past year on a highly improved Med Campaign for GWX 3 (a number of new harbors, improved shipping, scripting of a number of aditional battles, etc.). I got up to late 1943 and lost steam on it about three months ago. Maybe I'll start spending some of my hotel time working on that again and milk a few more years out of SH3 until SH6 comes along or maybe someone creates a crack.