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Originally Posted by Regorium
Always online is here to stay. I suggest getting used to it rather than trying to fight against it.
The only thing you should hope for is that companies learn how to do a proper launch - maybe have a pool of servers so that they can handle the initial load, and then re-assign those servers to other projects afterwards as demand goes down.
D3 is about as reliable and smooth as you can possibly get now. Always-on isn't even noticeable. I've never had issues with SC2 either. And I play a lot of WoW as well, and aside from the scheduled maintenance, I don't think they've had an unexpected outage in years.
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Is that so? Because Ubisoft changing their minds on always online begs to differ:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...-for-pc-games/
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“We have listened to feedback, and since June last year our policy for all of PC games is that we only require a one-time online activation when you first install the game, and from then you are free to play the game offline.”
“Whenever you want to reach any online service, multiplayer, you will have to be connected, and obviously for online games you will also need to be online to play. But if you want to enjoy Assassin’s Creed III single player, you will be able to do that without being connected. And you will be able to activate the game on as many machines as you want.”
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Just because Blizzard and EA have decided to include it in some of their games does not make it hear to stay. Hell, EA even recently back peddled on their stance of including micro-transactions in every game.