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Originally Posted by tater
In other posts you derided even the idea that someone might ever have a poor connection, or that servers (Ubi's own fault) might ever go down or be slow. Your suggestions to people who brought that up were along the lines that they should throw away their computers and play Monopoly (presumably they'd drive their Model Ts to the store to purchase that game).
The reality is that due to no fault of the customer, they WILL be inconvenienced by this 100% connected scheme. Period. This cannot even be debated. There WILL be connection problems sometimes, and there WILL be scheduled and unscheduled outages with Ubi servers that will make people like me who might pop onto the PC for an hour of play with a beer in hand really POed.
WILL happen, not a chance it won't. Invariably when they have no one on-call to fix it, too—which will likely be when the bulk of people also have time off to play (like over holidays).
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The whole server going down thing to me just comes with the territory. Im just used to it.
If someone has a problem with DRM because they cant afford the internet, wont always have access to it, etc... I understand them not being acceptive of a single player only game requiring a connection. All Ive ever said is that MOST PC gamers these days that can afford to build a machine to even run these games can afford it.
And if they cant get it at all, well what can you do? Everything is going online now, even single player games. Times are changing. That was my point.
Servers go down, thats just the way things go. If your computer dies, do you blame someone else for not being able to play the game? No because nothing good can come from that. You just hope that your computer keeps running, or the server will stay up and move on. I dont see the sense in trying to wage a war against them when they arent the only ones doing this, everything is going online. Its the natural progression of things, just as physical media will eventually go away as well. In 10 years you wont be able to find disc based games anymore. Digital distribution is the next natural wave of the future.
Thats the way I see it. I always compare this to when records switched to tapes, or VHS to DVDs. Not everyone could afford to make the switch, so they either eventually had to, or are forced into vintage shops. That could be the case in the future, with old school gamers looking for off line only games as they become more rare over time. People dont like change, but that doesnt stop it from taking place.
I always like to quote a line from my favorite rock band, Rush. "Always hopeful, yet discontent.
He knows changes aren't permanent.... But change is".
Think about the bold part there. Ever since I heard that, when things change around me, I dont bitch about it, I change with it because thats all I can do. It makes my life easier.