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Posted - 2011.09.23 21:10:00 -
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SpaceSquirrels wrote:We have no one to blame but ourselves.... Ok maybe just the people that keep ripping off games. I for one buy them. They may be less at fault than you, I believe. You don't find it bad enough not to buy the game and thus you support the practice.
Ubisoft thinks they can get away with using any crap DRM they want because it won't affect sales negatively and may stop a few pirates that are too stupid to read a text file with 3 instructions. Blizzard is smarter, their goal is to get more players onto B.Net to populate the game and the real money auction house. SC2 requires an online check "only" once a month.
It makes little sense to keep online checks active after cracks are released. When a game got old, some developers used to release patches that removed CD checks but nowadays they don't give a crap about you after you bought the game. |
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Posted - 2011.09.23 21:50:00 -
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Bane Necran wrote:Since there's going to be a real world cash market for players to sell items they find, insisting people be connected to battlenet all the time when playing is the only way to be sure there's no haxxoring, duping, or general item shenanigans.
I don't see a connection there. Did you ever play D2?
You had a single player mode, an open B.Net mode and a closed B.Net mode. On closed B.Net, the characters were stored on their servers and out of your reach (except for the numerous bugs/exploits D2 had). On the other modes, you had the character data on your computer and could play offline and obviously cheat, open B.Net was full of custom/cheated items. Of course you had no way to transfer your single player characters to closed B.Net (except for a rumored exploit).
Eliminating single player and open B.Net had nothing to do with cheats, it's purely a profit decision. While I personally never cared about open B.Net, I don't like their removal of single player mode. |
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Posted - 2011.09.23 22:39:00 -
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I don't see a connection between disallowing single player mode and multi player cheating or item buying. The AH is obviously going to be a multi player feature, I don't see how it would affect single player games if you put a clear separation between single player characters and multi player characters like D2 had. |
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