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Originally Posted by Seafireliv
I don`t like any of these Activation things Windows Live included. But it is true that with Windows Live you can play Offline and save Offline... They just make it a little hard to find that bit. I even deactivated GTAIV and took it back to the shop, so i was not too unhappy about it.
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I don't like it either but as long as i'm given the option to play offline i can at least live with it. It doesn't hurt my gaming experience and the game isn't forced to pause. The OSP will seriously kill the gaming experience for sure. Everyone has so called network peaks with ping and packetloss daily. We usually don't notice because the connection doesn't usually die out when it happens. Internet is buildt this way. To connect to ubisoft you have to go through alot of servers on the way. This is routing. Doing a ping command in DOS will show you the route it takes. Sometimes you get a bad route, sometimes a good one.
My point is that it's not down to your connection. Your connection might be good and stabile but that doesn't help if the routing to your destination sucks big time. I can live with one time activations or even live accounts. But the OSP is probably the worst idea ever for a protection. Using piracy as an escuse to implement OSP is total bull**** imho. This is mainly done to stop secondhand sales and to control the market. Personally i am really starting to dislike Ubisoft in their efforts to make money. Earning money and doing business is totally fine. But by slapping paying customer in the face hiding behind things they call a service for the customer, is way beyond the ethics of doing business. I can pause the game and keep my savegames all by myself. I'm not a total idiot... i hope :P