As long as there are games with copy protection, there will be people who will accept the challenge of breaking it. Piracy is as old as copyrighted software. Many years later I can't stand mmos and Richard Garriott can't make a good game anymore.įact: all things change. In those days I was eager to try Ultima Online and I too believed that the future would be "always online". I remember when Richard Garriott launched Ultima Online he stated that in the future every game would be Online Multi-player. Just because the market is trending in a certain way it doesn't mean that things will stay that way. I mean I get it, being in the Netherlands I'm probably in a privilidged place and I guess, compared to many countries 'in the future' when it comes to internet availability and computer access but that doesn't change that *this* is where it's headed (barring a world war or something) and it makes no sense to expect the market to evolve around a situation which is increasingly disappearing. Pheace: To me it feels like looking back in time to what used to be. And even if everything is 'in the future', common sense prevails, and that is to expect that a single player game, or any program for that matter that does not depend on the internet for most of its functionality, to be installable and playable offline.
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And let's not talk about spotty connections, those can be very fantastic that they might even tempt you not to use the internet ever again. Which is why mandatory online DRM on single player content is outrageous.Įven in this world where you claim some countries are 'in the future', even they have rural areas without a stable connection to the internet, and between stable connections to the internet lies those mobile data plans which you either spend wisely (don't let Steam connect to the internet on one) or end up wasting your money.
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Common sense really, no matter what the business suits would say all day and night about 'protecting their income.'
#Denuvo just cause 3 Offline
Regardless of whether we're in 1990 or 2277, single player games SHOULD be installable and playable in an offline environment. Being in the future or in the past does not mean you should delegate even the basic of the basics (those your computer can already do) to the internet.