No Single Player Offline Mode then? [Part 2]
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Phoning home is a form of DRM.
I will just drop this here.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a class of technologies[1] that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders, and individuals with the intent to control the use of digital content and devices after sale;[1][2][3] there are, however, many competing definitions.[4] With first-generation DRM software, the intent is to control copying; with second-generation DRM, the intent is to control executing, viewing, copying, printing, and altering of works or devices. The term is also sometimes referred to as copy protection, copy prevention, and copy control, although the correctness of apply DRM is in dispute.[5] DRM is a set of access control technologies.[6][7] In 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in the United States to impose criminal penalties on those who make available technologies whose primary purpose and function are to circumvent content protection technologies.[8]
Perhaps bad wording on my behalf however the actual issue is that offline mode has been dropped when it was promised. At the end of the day everyone who has purchased ED can only play it if the server is working and they have a working internet connection. Not everyone has internet when they want to play a game. Plus there are many reasons why an offline version would be better that an online version, its down to individuals preferences and when FD and DB said all along there would be an offline version and then in the last weeks pull offline mode surely you cna understand why many are not happy. Online games have there benefits and so does offline, it really is crazy to drop offline mode when all previous versions of Elite managed perfectly fine.
Petition to Frontier Developments and David Braben to include offline mode soon after release
I don't think that's a fair assesment of the situation.
And at least it is an overestimate of the DDF's influence.
I only ever had my own knowledge and judgement to use. It's what I've used. And the DDF have only ever been a 'Council of Advisors'. As Advisors we had influence, a little, but the policies weren't ours.
So all of those definitions are about intentions... if the intention of the online connection is to actually make the game playable (ie many of its features and functions are controlled from a central hive like in most MMOs and in this particular case) then it's not a connection for the intention of controlling the digital rights.
Then accept my apolgies... sorry
Actually kicktarter polls are often used if there is an issue, change of direction, new upgrade, etc. So yes... Why you wouldn't ask 26,000 people what they think is beyond me!
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Bad wording doesn't cover it. No "perhaps" about it. You were totally and utterly WRONG.
You're up in arms about FD using bad wording, and yet so very fast to hit on them. Hypocrisy and misinformation on your part. Just awful. I demand a refund from you for bad wording.
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You are more than free to look at the ddf archives and see the questions asked and how we responded.
Critical point - we were asked for opinion only, we never got to make a decision - that was up to FD.
if anything we gave them new angles to see things, but on the whole fd had a point in mind, were going to implement it regardless, and we just helped them flesh it out a little.
only 1ce did we ever make them stop and change direction (supercruise was the result)
no offence taken.
I dont feel fooled or cheated. I have got what i want so far with more to come. At least you got the saying right unlike Bush
hypergreatthing
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The fact is that single player is synonymous with offline.
No one in their right mind would think otherwise.
Online play, while needed in many multiplayer games for obvious reasons, when done on a single user experience is done solely for controlling when/where the user can play.
If Elite is really an mmo, then get rid of single player mode.
No offence taken.
Then you wouldn't be required to use a username & password. The server should freely send data to any client requesting it just like a web browser. Auth is a control mechanism, pure and simple.
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