Anyone else getting tired of an internet requirement to play single player?

Ive got Unreal Tournament 3 which wont let me save my progress due to no account connection.

Battlefield 2142 which wont let me play the game AT ALL without an internet connection as well.

I bought a computer not to long ago and then purchased those along with a few other PC games only to my dismay finding out that yo had to have an internet connection to even play.

I get irritated at how the industry expects you to "log in" so they can verify you before you can buy a game you bought.

Its sort of like how most xbox games dont have splitscreen anymore because playing online is the norm now. =/

Anyone else being screwed over by this? (I have a net connection now obviously but i was without one for 3 months or so)

Ive got Unreal Tournament 3 which wont let me save my progress due to no account connection.

Battlefield 2142 which wont let me play the game AT ALL without an internet connection as well.

I bought a computer not to long ago and then purchased those along with a few other PC games only to my dismay finding out that yo had to have an internet connection to even play.

I get irritated at how the industry expects you to "log in" so they can verify you before you can buy a game you bought.

Its sort of like how most xbox games dont have splitscreen anymore because playing online is the norm now. =/

Anyone else being screwed over by this? (I have a net connection now obviously but i was without one for 3 months or so)

sharpshooter188

Ive got Unreal Tournament 3 which wont let me save my progress due to no account connection.

Battlefield 2142 which wont let me play the game AT ALL without an internet connection as well.

I bought a computer not to long ago and then purchased those along with a few other PC games only to my dismay finding out that yo had to have an internet connection to even play.

I get irritated at how the industry expects you to "log in" so they can verify you before you can buy a game you bought.

Its sort of like how most xbox games dont have splitscreen anymore because playing online is the norm now. =/

Anyone else being screwed over by this? (I have a net connection now obviously but i was without one for 3 months or so)

Ive got Unreal Tournament 3 which wont let me save my progress due to no account connection.

Battlefield 2142 which wont let me play the game AT ALL without an internet connection as well.

I bought a computer not to long ago and then purchased those along with a few other PC games only to my dismay finding out that yo had to have an internet connection to even play.

I get irritated at how the industry expects you to "log in" so they can verify you before you can buy a game you bought.

Its sort of like how most xbox games dont have splitscreen anymore because playing online is the norm now. =/

Anyone else being screwed over by this? (I have a net connection now obviously but i was without one for 3 months or so)

Ive got Unreal Tournament 3 which wont let me save my progress due to no account connection.

Battlefield 2142 which wont let me play the game AT ALL without an internet connection as well.

I bought a computer not to long ago and then purchased those along with a few other PC games only to my dismay finding out that yo had to have an internet connection to even play.

I get irritated at how the industry expects you to "log in" so they can verify you before you can buy a game you bought.

Its sort of like how most xbox games dont have splitscreen anymore because playing online is the norm now. =/

Anyone else being screwed over by this? (I have a net connection now obviously but i was without one for 3 months or so)

[QUOTE="sharpshooter188"][QUOTE="_rpg_FAN"] you can play UT3 without connection and SAVE without connection just make offline account Steam offer offline mode and most games offer it too_rpg_FAN

There's a Play Offline option in the game after you get past Steam...tjoeb123

He wasn't talking about Steam.

I'm not annoyed by this problem, if internet wasn't so popular such methods wouldn't have been adopted. Sure there was a time when I had dial up but obviously at that time, internet registration wasn't required, you only needed internet if the game had multiplayer, but broadband was available almost everywhere when games started to register online.

And UT 3 and BF 2142 are purely multiplayer, not single player, so it isn't that weird.

[QUOTE="_rpg_FAN"]

as far as i remember no it doesntjohnny27

You are both correct! It DOESN'T require it after being patched. It DOES require it vanilla, straight out the box.

And UT 3 and BF 2142 are purely multiplayer, not single player, so it isn't that weird.

DanielDust

Anyone else being screwed over by this? (I have a net connection now obviously but i was without one for 3 months or so)

sharpshooter188

yep couldnt play crysis warhead the other day when my internet connection went down, it said i needed internet access to verify ownership of the game.

Well, piracy has been around for as long as I can remember (29 year old gamer here) and I find it quite puzzling that only in recent years have game publishers resorted to DRM software included in games. They're not very good measures though since it proves to be more of an inconvenience to actual paying customers. I guess some publishers would rather attempt to do something to protect their games rather than just take things lying down however futile it may be. I mean, Dawn of War 2 just came out and no less than a day later, the torrents are all filled up with seeders and leechers getting their hands on a cracked Dawn of War 2 and playing it to completion (SP campaign). What to do, what to do? Hmmm.......futs22

I know. I was just looking for a few quick shooters. I dont think i knew of a lot of good ones for the PC at the time other then my good old buddy Counter Strike Source. But again thats something that needs to be played online. Ill have to pick up Far Cry 2 for the PC soon but im not sure if its going to require online or not. btw adamosmaki... love the facts of pc gaming quote. lol. :Psharpshooter188

There's a Play Offline option in the game after you get past Steam...tjoeb123

[QUOTE="sharpshooter188"]

Anyone else being screwed over by this? (I have a net connection now obviously but i was without one for 3 months or so)

Macutchi

yep couldnt play crysis warhead the other day when my internet connection went down, it said i needed internet access to verify ownership of the game.

[QUOTE="sharpshooter188"]I know. I was just looking for a few quick shooters. I dont think i knew of a lot of good ones for the PC at the time other then my good old buddy Counter Strike Source. But again thats something that needs to be played online. Ill have to pick up Far Cry 2 for the PC soon but im not sure if its going to require online or not. btw adamosmaki... love the facts of pc gaming quote. lol. :PWhiteblade999

I like it. Its just another hoop that pirates have to jump through, but its a step in the right direction.

Who doesn't have internet? Seriously.

I like it. Its just another hoop that pirates have to jump through, but its a step in the right direction.

Who doesn't have internet? Seriously.

thenidhogg

But I think many gamers will support my point of view - Its always better to have Internet-activation scheme instead of crappy software-based DRM scheme. Though Steam has few disadvantages, still it's a right direction imo.arijit_2404

Unfortunately, the internet activation DRM IS crappy software based DRM. SecuROM is used in most of these internet check/ limited activation games. Steam is also a software based DRM scheme. Try playing your game without Steam running. You can play without the internet (offline mode) but not without Steam running. In other words, you are making a differentiation that doesn't exist. Internet activation = software based DRM.

Yes and I also hate the so many "activations" thing.

DRM punishes people like me who acctually buy the game. I am thinking about getting cracked versions of any game that does DRM from now on as a boycott.

I understand the frustration of single player games needing it, but the two you mentioned are the least single player games i can think off. I mean Counter-Strike Condition Zero had more single player than BF 2142 (UT3 at least tried for a story and a campaign).

The games you mentoined are primarily online only games so i don't see a huge problem with them needing an internet connection to play. But i can understand why you are angry.

But i will say if you spent money on BF 2142 just to play single player it wasted it... Even if you spent .99 cents you wasted it. It is like throwing a brick at a horse... It may sound fun until you actually try it out and then you will just regret it...

Yes and I also hate the so many "activations" thing.

DRM punishes people like me who acctually buy the game. I am thinking about getting cracked versions of any game that does DRM from now on as a boycott.

-Rivfader-

@ Agent_Kaliaver Well i bought battlefield 2142 for bot play primarily. The "single player" portion of it. Thats why i wanted the game itself. I got tired of modern warfare games (ironically i recently got into CoD 4 though) and wanted something a bit more futuristic. Exhausting Metroid 1 and 2, I turned to 2142. But as the others said ill probably just find a no cd crack and single player crack. Then ill be golden. By the way i do not classify those as illegal since ive already got the game in hand and the games installed. (Now im just lazy to dig it out of my moving boxes.)sharpshooter188

The reason i pointed it out was that there is barely anything in BF 2142. They only let you play like 4 maps with a max of 16 bots (there are like 11 maps in game and can have a total of 64 players in game). It would have been better to get a pirated version. That way you wouldn't spend money on how cheap EA really is. I however own the game and connect to the internet all the time so i am ok with it.

If i were you i would have went classic with BF 1942. It isn't modern and they actually let you play more than 4 maps. You can get this changed with a mod however. It allows you to play with more people, but i don't know if they let you play anymore maps...

[QUOTE="Gamartto"][QUOTE="-Feath-"] ... but since i'm always connected to the internet it doesn't bother me atall. It's 2009, games will only become more and more dependant on an internet connection in the future.arijit_2404

Mass Effect (protected by SecuROM) needed an internet connection to initially activate it. That's one of the options it offers to publishers, apparently. It can be configured to require internet activation, internet connections, limit the number of activations... all kinds of things. In the case of Mass Effect, they were originally planning to make it reauthenticate with the servers at least every 10 days, requiring an internet connection. They backed off on that, at least. As it stands, you can run it after that, you don't even need the disc in the drive, but you do have to have that connection initially. So, looks like we're getting both the internet required activation AND SecuROM, all in one tidy little package. Sucks, doesn't it?

[QUOTE="sharpshooter188"]@ Agent_Kaliaver Well i bought battlefield 2142 for bot play primarily. The "single player" portion of it. Thats why i wanted the game itself. I got tired of modern warfare games (ironically i recently got into CoD 4 though) and wanted something a bit more futuristic. Exhausting Metroid 1 and 2, I turned to 2142. But as the others said ill probably just find a no cd crack and single player crack. Then ill be golden. By the way i do not classify those as illegal since ive already got the game in hand and the games installed. (Now im just lazy to dig it out of my moving boxes.)Agent_Kaliaver

The reason i pointed it out was that there is barely anything in BF 2142. They only let you play like 4 maps with a max of 16 bots (there are like 11 maps in game and can have a total of 64 players in game). It would have been better to get a pirated version. That way you wouldn't spend money on how cheap EA really is. I however own the game and connect to the internet all the time so i am ok with it.

If i were you i would have went classic with BF 1942. It isn't modern and they actually let you play more than 4 maps. You can get this changed with a mod however. It allows you to play with more people, but i don't know if they let you play anymore maps...

[QUOTE="sharpshooter188"]

Ive got Unreal Tournament 3 which wont let me save my progress due to no account connection.

Battlefield 2142 which wont let me play the game AT ALL without an internet connection as well.

I bought a computer not to long ago and then purchased those along with a few other PC games only to my dismay finding out that yo had to have an internet connection to even play.

I get irritated at how the industry expects you to "log in" so they can verify you before you can buy a game you bought.

Its sort of like how most xbox games dont have splitscreen anymore because playing online is the norm now. =/

Anyone else being screwed over by this? (I have a net connection now obviously but i was without one for 3 months or so)

adamosmaki

world of starcraft made me laugh :) nice one

lol World of starcraft = Korea's economy shuts down for a daySTAR_Admiral