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Originally Posted by captainprid
A large proportion of the population now has broadband so from a developer perspective it makes sense and at least they have built in to the game a feature that saves your game if you become disconnected.
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I am sorry you did not get the responses you wanted but I hope the tone has at least been OK?
Expanding on from Reese's post with my own experiences with having broadband, or not in good old Oz.
I live 20 minutes outside Canberra in Bungendore, but when it came to getting an internet connection that meant little. The township has ADSL broadband but the 2 estates 3 & 5 minutes up the road your choices were between a local wireless broadband provider (the term broadband very loosely) and Telstra’s sell your 1st born 3G wireless broadband because of the pair gain i.e. Telstra overloads the copper with services in lieu of actually installing adequate infrastructure.
Not having a 1st born I went with the local wireless broadband provider and I had to wait 7 weeks to get my internet connection.
7 weeks later all keen to surf the net and catch up on the world as I know it, but the very next day there is a slight issue. The internet is not available till 08.30 and this happens the next day and the next where the connection was only available starting from 07.30 to 09.00. Upon following this up with my ISP I find that the wireless towers do not have enough battery capacity to cope with the winter overcast days. This took 9 months to be rectified.
I was to find out that this was the least of my problems with this ISP.
There were regular outages of 1-4 hours every 2-4 days and 4-12 hours every 2-3 weeks. The longest outage we had was 3 days. The network was so overloaded the 1500k connection would often be sub 400k.
As bad as this ISP was if it was not for this community oriented ISP I would have had to use a 56k dial service. Remember this is in Australia and a mere 20 minutes outside out national capital.
Then there is just having a internet connection. My wife was a Customs Detector Dog handler and as such we moved a bit in 2.5 years. During this time, not counting the extreme 7 weeks above, I was waiting for a broadband connection for a total of 21 weeks or 5.1 months!
So for every year I would not be able to play for 2 month, or 60 days simply because I was waiting for my broadband to be connected.
These restrictions would not be accepted if it was attached to a book so why is it OK to restrict my use of a game I purchased?
If Ubisoft sold books they would want the library banned as every borrowed book is a lost sale.