[QUOTE="BuldozerX"]
Yes, but the multiplayer online in each game will eventully die anyway. Just look at EA MMA. They shut down the multiplayer servers after a few years, so now multiplayer is blocked. If they did this to single player the game would be useless now, but I can still enjoy the single player, so the game will last forever, and it will earn its place among retro gaming sometime in the future. This is important to me.
Or am I talking non sense?
That's the unfortunate reality of multiplayer. Servers for it can't be upkept forever. People are going to stop using them eventually. Although in EA's case, all of those server shut-downs were total dick moves. I know they manage their own Steam-like service and thus have good reason for using their own servers instead, but even so. Not cool.
But there's not much that can be done about it. Console games don't allow for custom servers like PC games do, so...
You basically dont have to be online in order for this to work. Steam games can be played offline, but you have to activate them online. Everyone can do that. If you dont have internet at home, just use a cell phone to log on.BuldozerX
PCs are almost always guaranteed to be connected online, though, especially if you're buying games through a service like Steam. That allows them the freedom to institute such measures. There's still too many people who never take their consoles online. Cutting them out of the equation -- regardless of whether they primarily buy used or not -- would hurt the performance of their consoles. You need as many sales as possible when dealing in hardware (just look at what happened to THQ after their uDraw tablet failed miserably). Stupid acts like forcing anyone to have to go online would only cause problems.
Funneling that through a cell phone doesn't solve anything because that requires them to create apps that allow such authentication to be cleared. The amount of steps one has to go through to make any of this happen is just not worth the trouble when they don't know how hard any of thos could backfire.
Thats ok, because I dont expect the multiplayer to last more than a few years anyway, unless we`re talking about games like WoW, but thats not the case. But if the required a online activation code for single player games, they would also have to keep their servers online in order to verify the code, and that would suck. I can still pick up games from the 90s, but that would be impossible if they pulled this crap back then. So whats your conclusion? You dont see this happening anytime?
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