Anyone made uses of the DRM 'features'

[mookiemookie]

I have only one gaming computer, so the "benefit" of being able to play it on multiple computers is a non-starter for me. As for the sync'd saves, I can make my own savegame backups. I don't need them to do it for me.

Thats pretty much what I do. I've got a NAS box sitting in my house and everything I do (games, work etc) gets backed up to the NAS pretty much every day. So I'm not really sure I'd ever need someone to back up my games for me.

I can see it'd be useful for those who aren't that comfortable computer-wise however. I know plenty of people who just wouldn't think of navigating into a games directory to find and copy off saves/game profiles so I suppose it would be a help for them.

[janh]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I have only one gaming computer, so the "benefit" of being able to play it on multiple computers is a non-starter for me. As for the sync'd saves, I can make my own savegame backups. I don't need them to do it for me.

The reasoning they gave for introducing an "online platform" were indeed weakly convincing at best. I always have control over saves of my games, as I occasionally make copies to keep for later (for the good old times sake...). I don't know, but they would have needed to add quite a bit more to make it look good to the average person, but I can't even think of any functionality online that I would desire for a single player game. Really nothing, unfortunately.

Maybe they just should have been honest about the real purpose of it on release, and say it will be their first step towards a pay-by-play /pay-per-additional ingame content basis. Maybe that would have been received better. Although thinking about it, why would you need a permanent connection for downloading occasional new campaigns, or units, or just skins? Even I turn in circles following their concept...