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difool2 · 01-30-10, 01:54 PM

Because that's how MMOs work; you must be online all the time, the game will hang if the connection goes wonky (on either end), and you must save your game on the server, natch.

Not saying that SH5 will be a MMO in any way, shape, or form, because I doubt that any such change of direction could be pulled off with a mere month to go before release, but my anger and annoyance would pretty much vanish if this was in fact the case, as real human-run wolfpacks would become the big thing. The issues surrounding time compression are well known here (it basically would turn subs into "warp"-capable vessels), but just throwing that out there to be chewed on a bit...

01-30-10, 01:54 PM	#1
difool2 Commander Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 459 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Would the DRM (& etc.) be more palatable if SH5 was a MMO? Because that's how MMOs work; you must be online all the time, the game will hang if the connection goes wonky (on either end), and you must save your game on the server, natch. Not saying that SH5 will be a MMO in any way, shape, or form, because I doubt that any such change of direction could be pulled off with a mere month to go before release, but my anger and annoyance would pretty much vanish if this was in fact the case, as real human-run wolfpacks would become the big thing. The issues surrounding time compression are well known here (it basically would turn subs into "warp"-capable vessels), but just throwing that out there to be chewed on a bit...