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Celticfang · 3/6/2013

Thanks RockPaperShotgun for informing me, but... RPS have stated that the guys at Crytek (who are ow

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Xen0byte posted on Mar 10, 2013 8:46:02 AM - Report post

This is what buying a game means to me, to be able to play it whenever I feel like it, be it now or in 30 years when the servers are down. With always on DRM I just feel like I payed for a tool with which I get to access the game, but not quite for the game itself. I refuse to buy any server sided game no matter how much I want to play them or how great they are. My two cents.

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AdmiralThrawn posted on Mar 12, 2013 5:26:44 PM - Report post

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originally posted by Xen0byte

This is what buying a game means to me, to be able to play it whenever I feel like it, be it now or in 30 years when the servers are down. With always on DRM I just feel like I payed for a tool with which I get to access the game, but not quite for the game itself. I refuse to buy any server sided game no matter how much I want to play them or how great they are. My two cents.

Any game that is online only I will never pay for, for this reason.

Just because a company might not want to run the servers any more doesn't mean I won't want to play it, and if it's an OLO game, they're basically giving me the finger.

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LordVenator posted on Mar 12, 2013 6:35:15 PM - Report post

Well, if all games do go online at some point, we could just ignore them and play indie/kickstarter games which aren't online. From what I've seen, there's already a nice amount of really promising kickstarter games which look better than all these AAA+ titles.

It's easier to make every game online only and blame the piracy instead of the real reason, their greed.

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Steven283 posted on Mar 17, 2013 10:00:15 AM - Report post

The day they put 'always online' DRM into every game is the day I stop gaming. I need offline mode because my connection isn't the most stable. Diablo 3 was a disaster for me. Never again...