Its ironic that the majority of the people coming and having a pop in this thread are people who will quite happily play online, and have a valid working internet connection all the time. Of course this is just another example of people jumping on something that everyone is jumping on as well (see E3 last year, and Microsoft's online policy).
That's an impressive..umm..err..statistic? What would you call it, this evidence, this collation of data that you have collected to support your statement "majority of the people coming and having a pop in this thread are people who will quite happily play online, and have a valid working internet connection all the time."?
Of course this is just another example of people jumping on something that everyone is jumping on as well (see E3 last year, and Microsoft's online policy).
Sweeping generalisation much? Have you bothered to actually read through this whole thread?
- If not, why not and how could you possibly have anything even remotely intelligible to add with a complete lack of context and information?
- If you have read through the entire thread then you are just plain wrong and doing exactly what you are accusing others of doing; oh the irony, oh the hypocrisy.
Whilst there are people out there who live in the sticks who have not so ideal internet connections, whats stopping them from playing Solo mode exactly> As long as the get authenticated, and get the server updates when needs that all that matters.
If only you had a clue. Let's use your example, someone who lives in the sticks with intermittent internet that can go down for hours at a time, what happens when they dock at a station? You do realise that every transaction you perform whilst docked requires communications with FD servers right? So what happens to the sticks internet user? Here I'll give you a hand, they're screwed, no more ED until their internet gets back on the line.
Look it's terribly simple to understand, you can now not play ED unless you have a decent and reliable internet connection and that means a connection that drops out for a few seconds maximum, not minutes, not hours and obviously not days.
Here's another scenario for you to consider, (but see, if you had have actually read any of this thread instead of just johnny-come-lately-jumping-on-the-troll-bandwagon, you would already known what I am about to tell you); the guys/gals that have internet connection only part of the time or none of the time? E.g. I have excellent internet access roughly 3 months a year and then I work and live in a remote location with no internet access whatsoever, what do I do? I'm guessing you'll have a witty response.
People love to moan ... and this is giving them plenty of ammo sadly ...
And here you are moaning about the moaners, well no, actually you are moaning about something you have no clue about or care about, because it doesn't affect you and the moaners aren't moaners at all; most of them have genuine grievances with this situation that your are trying to sweepingly dismiss with a wave of your magic wand. How about you take your patronising and uniformed attitude and move along?
