Online 24/7/365 #dealwithit

[Kalmado]

After recent comments from Ubisoft's CEO this seems like a legit possibility of happening. What does BG'ers say regarding any system needing to be online to function? What, if any, would be the pros to always being online necessary?

[Krazy]

Pros:
It gives your internet something to do.

[Kaisha]

Pros:
It gives your internet something to do.

Pros:
Might start giving consumers in Canada a reason to bitch at laughably poor connections and bandwidth caps, especially with PS4's streaming capabilities built-in.

Cons:
Canada has laughable poor connections and bandwidth caps everywhere that isn't a city.

[shidobu]

been buying my single player games for pc anyways can takem with me when ever the fuck i leave the house. Now if marvel was on pc... in a perfect world i suppose..

[Waraji]

It's slowly been happening to PC titles too, so don't hold kick of your shoes just yet.

[Ratatapa]

Pros:
Might start giving consumers in Canada a reason to bitch at laughably poor connections and bandwidth caps, especially with PS4's streaming capabilities built-in.

Cons:
Canada has laughable poor connections and bandwidth caps everywhere that isn't a city.

If you think the face about 24 7 will change something, well sucks to be you cuz it wont change! lol

[Correction]

After recent comments from Ubisoft's CEO this seems like a legit possibility of happening. What does BG'ers say regarding any system needing to be online to function? What, if any, would be the pros to always being online necessary?

Let's define 'always online.' Right now the type that has people up in arms is the requirement of a connection to an authentication server to access single-player content. See: Starcraft II, Diablo III, early Ubisoft DRM (Settlers 7 through Driver: San Fransisco), and Sim City 5 (lol). There are no pros to consumers, anybody who says otherwise is an imbecile.

[Melena]

Exactly, have people already forgotten about the month long psn outage last year? I can't wait till I have a five hundred dollar brick sitting on my entertainment center for a month cause I can't even play a fucking single player game on it.

[Damane]

if this happens to the new xbox or PS4 I aint gonna get either of the consoles and just go with the Wii U/PC

[Kalmado]

Let's define 'always online.' Right now the type that has people up in arms is the requirement of a connection to an authentication server to access single-player content. See: Starcraft II, Diablo III, early Ubisoft DRM (Settlers 7 through Driver: San Fransisco), and Sim City 5 (lol). There are no pros to consumers, anybody who says otherwise is an imbecile.

Definition of "always online" I'm thinking of is that used from the MS reports of if an internet connection is not present for more than 3 minutes the system will not be usable. I as well see zero pro to 24/7 online, but am curious if anyone does see a pro to it.

[Damane]

Definition of "always online" I'm thinking of is that used from the MS reports of if an internet connection is not present for more than 3 minutes the system will not be usable. I as well see zero pro to 24/7 online, but am curious if anyone does see a pro to it.

there is no pro to it, only drawbacks. Your console will be bound to an internet conneciton all the time, you cant take it with you to anyone for a party/vacation house/whatever if there isnt an internet conneciton available there. Fuck in that case I might aswell switch totally to mobile gameing and say FU to the next console Gen

[Kalmado]

It's slowly been happening to PC titles too, so don't hold kick of your shoes just yet.

Any reports of this credible or otherwise? I do not own a pc game other than ffxi so I'm ignorant to the pc gaming world.

[Kaisha]

If you think the face about 24 7 will change something, well sucks to be you cuz it wont change! lol

Oh I know. Just let me be hopeful I'll eventually have something better than a 3mbit connection with shit ping rate that doesn't involve moving.

I expect this always-online shit to be further shoved down our throats anyhow until the PR/consumer backlash becomes enough to the point where someone like Ubisoft will go "We're dropping this because it's bad to for the consumers! Love us again!" like they have with every other draconian means of copy-protection used in the past.

Spoiler: show

Anyone remember Starforce?

[Correction]

Any reports of this credible or otherwise? I do not own a pc game other than ffxi so I'm ignorant to the pc gaming world.

Ubisoft kind of pioneered this shit with Settlers 7 on PC, which would kill your game if you lost your connection to their DRM servers. They repeated this scheme for 3 more games (Silent Hunter V, Ass Creed 2 and Ass Bros). Blizzard did this with Diablo III. EA/Maxis attempted this with SimCity V. There are already rumors swirling around about Watch_Dogs.

[Mabubeezareel]

You know the only thing worse than requiring an always-online connection to access single player/offline content? All the maverick groups like Anon, Lulzsec, etc, doing their damndest to bring down those networks, succeeding in doing so, in turn making a bad situation even worse. And you know what WON'T be happening when that does happen? MS/Sony/whoever changing their tune and doing a 180.

People need to vote with their wallets, and I'll sure as hell be doing so with mine.

[6souls]

Pros:
Might start giving consumers in Canada a reason to bitch at laughably poor connections and bandwidth caps, especially with PS4's streaming capabilities built-in.

Cons:
Canada has laughable poor connections and bandwidth caps everywhere that isn't a city.

Ubisoft thinks that you are ready.

The audience is “ready” for always online game consoles, according to Ubisoft Montreal CEO, Yannis Mallat.

In an interview published on the website of UK newspaper, The Guardian, Mallat talks about the transition to next-gen, connected experiences and always online devices.

“I would say that a lot of people are already always online through other devices,” he said when asked about whether or not the audience is ready for always online consoles. “I would suspect that the audience is ready.”

And when asked about about the concerns over always online, Mallat said: “The answer lies in the question – as soon as players don’t have to worry, then they will only take into account the benefits that those services bring. And I agree, these services need to provide clear benefits.

“It’s important to be able to provide direct connections between us and our consumers, whether that’s extra content or online services, a lot of successful games have that.”

http://gematsu.com/2013/04/ubisoft-s...-always-online
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...soft-interview

[Koul]

You know the only thing worse than requiring an always-online connection to access single player/offline content? All the maverick groups like Anon, Lulzsec, etc, doing their damndest to bring down those networks, succeeding in doing so, in turn making a bad situation even worse. And you know what WON'T be happening when that does happen? MS/Sony/whoever changing their tune and doing a 180.

People need to vote with their wallets, and I'll sure as hell be doing so with mine.

Quoting for motherfuckin truth.

[arus2001]

Dumb move. World isn't ready no matter how much the urban city dwellers have lost touch with reality.

[djzombie]

seriously the backlash with the simcity launch wasnt enough to squash this dumb shit? I really hope if any company is dumb enough to releaase an always online console people are smart enough not to buy it. something tells me thats pretty unlikely though

[Qalbert]

I'm fairly laid back when it comes to stuff people like to bitch about, I'm ok with most DLC, I don't think a yearly release is inherently a bad thing, as long as the final product is a quality one, etc, but I will not buy an always online console in the foreseeable future. after a few years pass, if the system hasn't completely flopped, and has some decent exclusives then I miiight pick one up eventually, since at that point my decision to purchase is fairly meaningless when it comes to the success of an always-online console.