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[Aklyon]

The time they try to force gaming into a always-on all the time no-exceptions kind of thing will be when they lose quite a lot of people, I'd predict. Singleplayer games that are not browser-based should not require any external connection to use after some kind of verificaton activator thingie.

It's simply a matter of how much of the market has internet. That's it. We're part of a generation that remembers a time before the internet, when it wasn't a fact of life. Eventually......we're not going to be the focus of their marketing efforts and what not. They'll be preaching about always-on to a generation that has never been off....why should they care if a SP game requires the internet? They won't remember a time when they didn't. They can't play games on their phone while it's off the network...why should their PC be any different?

And the indie scene doesn't really help that situation at all. Why? Because you need internet to even have access to the indie scene. We benefit from always being on as much as we resist efforts to capitalize on it.

So yeah. Once that barrier in the public's perception of always-on changes.....game play will follow suit. There will always be games out there that don't require you to stay connected, but eventually they'll be a novelty, rather than the standard in the AAA realm.

Well whenever that supposedly happens, I'll be over here laughing at them who can't play anything when theres a network problem and playing my games just fine.

[Scaraban]

When I am a network administrator, I am going to, every once and while, flip local routers off and back on. Everyone who says, "Where'd the internet go?" is most likely guilty of something.

[Mindmaker]

Stupid peple in online games.

[Lysabild]

Stupid peple in online games.

This is the worst yes, so, fucking, tiring ^^'

[Darvi]

Try stupid people in general. On the internet, at least, they are easy to get rid of.

[Mindmaker]

I'm really happy there's an /ignore all command.
I think I'll be applying this at the start of every game.

[Bauglir]

Try stupid people in general. On the internet, at least, they are easy to get rid of.

Hey, I'm extremely persistent, even on the internet.

[nenjin]

My first act in any MMO is to turn off general chat.

[Aklyon]

My first act in any MMO is to turn off general chat.

DDO has fairly decent general chat as far as I've seen.
Most everything else since then I let it go for a day or so to see if its as good, which almost always is no.

[UltraValican]

Game Graphics-They are too good and I refuse to spend 1,000 of dollars on modifying a compute with the latest OS and was made early last year, just to play Shogun Total War.
Also, my cousin was racially profiled then beaten by the police and they may have stolen his car.

[kaijyuu]

Also, my cousin was racially profiled then beaten by the police and they may have stolen his car.

...the fuck?

Is that remotely common where you live? If not, call a friggin' newspaper or something and get some publicity. If it is common, well, that sucks big time.

[UltraValican]

Also, my cousin was racially profiled then beaten by the police and they may have stolen his car.

...the fuck?

Indeed, He is planning on sueing the city(Memphis TN). His girlfriend  heard what happened on her cellphone.

[Greiger]

I was about to say something about the college making their own books for classes out of tissue paper, then charging $70 for them at an on campus store that is only open during the times that you are working and the only location to get said books because only the school is allowed to sell them.  But damn, that just put that in perspective.

Good luck to your cousin, hope it all gets sorted and they become rich off of the lawsuit.

[SirAaronIII]

Also, my cousin was racially profiled then beaten by the police and they may have stolen his car.

That is terrible. He should definitely sue the city, and I wish him luck in doing so.
What ethnicity is he, out of curiosity?

[UltraValican]

Also, my cousin was racially profiled then beaten by the police and they may have stolen his car.

That is terrible. He should definitely sue the city, and I wish him luck in doing so.
What ethnicity is he, out of curiosity?

African American.