What....... It's always been an online game
No Single Player offline Mode then?
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What....... It's always been an online game
Again, by your definition, you're still being forced to connect to that server in order to play the game so it STILL has DRM.
Unless your point is that the server you're connecting to is necessary to connect to in order to play the game rather than as a form of preventing copyright infringement.
I understand, your upset! But at the end of the day there are plenty more serious things to get upset about aren't there? Like I said, it's just a computer game! You wont be able to play it offline, big deal! No amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth on your part are going to change this salient fact!
I recommend you just get over it, ask for a refund if that will sooth your ego. Go and do something more productive, like play another computer game. I'm sure you will be able to find some problem with that one too!
Honestly, life really is to short, we will probably have had enough of ED and moved on to the next best thing in six months.
Really sad this is gonna be my first post on the forum, this truly is a great game, but I am not interested in being tied down by a game always on DRM. I travel alot, and I'm always at sea were I have no internet... So who do I contact to get my refund? Cause if I just wasted $60 on a promised offline mode, and I can't play my game most of the time, I would rather spend my money on a game I actually can play. And I have to go cancel my expensive as fudge flight stick as well....
well ED could have been both.
Can you tell her to leave me some better presents this year.
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Connecting to the server in order to play an online game isn't done to prevent the copyright infringement of software, it's done to play the game.
Not to mention those using OSX.
Based on the posting I've seen, these people don't exist and if they did they're not important... If they do eventually notice that what they paid for and what they're getting are different, then decide to post their concerns they'll likely be branded "trolls" and told to stop being all "butthurt" about it.
I've said it before, and I will continue to do so, there is a distinct lack of empathy from the "Happy Onliners" in these posts.
I'm bowing out of the debate now. I just watched Tim Wheatley's video and he sums up how I feel. I think I could get over the lack of offline mode but getting over the feeling of being disrespected by Frontier and their method of delivering the news and their handling of this situation is going to be hard to forget.
I looked up to David Braben and had huge amounts of respect for him. Now I feel his company doesn't care what the small minority of old Elite fans think. Their strategy is to ignore us and soldier on because at the end of the day its just business and they are here to make money for their investors.
I never threw my toys out the pram - I never demanded a refund and I never even demanded offline mode be reconsidered. I just wanted it better communicated - to see a little more respect for the backers and maybe even an apology.
I was looking forward to the party - can't help feel the spark of excitement in me has gone a little. Maybe on the day the atmosphere will knock the negative thoughts out of me and perk me back up.
I looked up to David Braben and had huge amounts of respect for him. Now I feel his company doesn't care what the small minority of old Elite fans think. Their strategy is to ignore us and soldier on because at the end of the day its just business and they are here to make money for their investors.
I never threw my toys out the pram - I never demanded a refund and I never even demanded offline mode be reconsidered. I just wanted it better communicated - to see a little more respect for the backers and maybe even an apology.
I was looking forward to the party - can't help feel the spark of excitement in me has gone a little. Maybe on the day the atmosphere will knock the negative thoughts out of me and perk me back up.
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I suppose you're right. The inherent comedy was just too much for me
omg NO...I can't believe you don't understand this very basic concept. Always-on DRM is nothing new. Just read up on it yourself geezus.
I think to take out offline mode is the best decision taken from FD in the last months.
IMO is the best way to protect the game from hacks/cracks and private illegal servers.
Benefit is also that now FD can concentrate all efforts to bring the game forward without concidering the offline mode complications.
"E: D offline" must be a separate project (standalone), without network support.
IMO is the best way to protect the game from hacks/cracks and private illegal servers.
Benefit is also that now FD can concentrate all efforts to bring the game forward without concidering the offline mode complications.
"E: D offline" must be a separate project (standalone), without network support.
yea ... the ltheory forums.
Sounds like an easy loophole^^
what !!! Santa is your mum !!
It will get larger, and is growing second by second....
Pitchforks & torches forum style...
I just wish they would consider the addition of offline in the future rather than discount it totally...
You think?
You don't need this thread to know the change would be met only with negativity; it wasn't a decision with any positive benefit. It was a decision they had no option but to make without compromising the core design of the game: online.
This isn't a change designed to improve the game, where a small minority get upset by it. It was a decision FD didn't want to make and tried hard to work around.
If fd aren't happy by it, it goes without saying that they are aware the response will be negative.
It doesn't change the fact that it's not going to change.
/shrug Argue with wikipedia, I guess, then?
Look if you are going to be pedantic about this point it is also worth pointing out that a "a constant online connection" is not required.
Whilst it will be required very often there will be times that you could actually unplug the connection. Yes when you try to sell goods etc the game will then search for the net and you'll most probably get the spinning icon you get now when accessing certain things in a station, like outfitting but that does not specifically mean a constant connection
If i'm in game in a MMO for instance -say GW2- the very instant i disconnect from the internet ill be thrown back to the starting/character select screen with a prompt informing me to connect to the internet. Even a slight "hiccup" in the connection will cause this.
If you are trying to get the terminology correct this is not the same, in fact i would not be surprised if you could bounty hunt in solo and the same location for a good while without needing a constant connection,
Either way this is being pedantic but then, what you are suggesting is clearly not true either and it is not DRM.
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But of course! I totally understand that there is a finite limit to your stores of "Empathy Power" and as you have what you want from the game there is very little reason for you to care about what anyone else wanted.
I support your right to hoard your empathy and be happy with how the game has turned out.
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