Weekend going ok for authentication servers?

[Nordmann]

Originally Posted by Nafod81

Further I can't think of more than a few weeks in the past five years where I have been without ample access to a stable internet connection.
I haven't had a single instance of being without a connection when I needed one. I realize my situation is not common. I haven't purchased a game on physical media since 2005.

Never move to England then, fast, reliable, stable internet is not common. I have had to change companies 3 or 4 times in so many years, having two periods of 6 months without a connection. Furthermore, if you do have an outage, you are routed to India and fed the usual "Is the modem plugged in?" drivel by someone who barely speaks English. If you can't fix it yourself, you're screwed.

All internet based games were thus useless to me, not once, but twice, for 6 months at a time! The only reason I didn't go insane and shoot up my ISP's HQ, was my healthy stack of single-player games. Now, with SH5, offline play isn't an option, which begs the question as to why anyone in a similar situation (many places in my country, mine isn't the worst!) would buy a game with such limitations. Not exactly the best of business plans, when you're trying to sell as many copies as possible.