That is really the saddest thing about that whole affair, some ppl are just ripped-off by FD.
No Single Player offline Mode then?
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That is really the saddest thing about that whole affair, some ppl are just ripped-off by FD.
..and his mum has a beard??!
You gotta be kidding me...
WoW and SWToR certainly didn't.
WoW changed so many times and core design principles of it alongside it.
I stopped playing WoW precielsy becuase I got fed up with the way Blizzard kept messing up and ignoring the data everyone could see while trundling along before they at some point would say "woops, looks like everyone was right, we'll just change things, but we will do it our way" and then continue to mess things up. The fact that they removed the words "no-one is telling you how to play" from their own webpages at some point tells a story in itself about how their design goals changed after release.
SWToR more or less crashed and burned in my point of view. It was a nice singleplayer MMO, as long as you didn't run into the bugs. But once you got past the campagin stories while leveling up, there really was nothing left in the game. And even the story made zero sense at some points (like getting light points for getting someone to follow the dark side...). SWToR also had an unforgivable 'wall' of being unable to stop your account if you lost access to it (which happened to me). I literally had to threaten them with court while procuring their own responses as evidence of knowledge of our communication if they did not stop my account. So yeah, I doubt that game worked as intended given the amount of bugs in it.
I never really played planetside2, so can't say anything about that.
Probably vastly easier than any true MMO server emulator like WoW because by definition it wouldn't need to handle multiple players.
All that really is needed is to decode the packet structure and then work out what messages the client sends to the server and what responses it expects back. Naturally your background simulation is going to be completely different from the official servers but that doesn't mean it will be worse.
That might have been me but it probably wasn't; it's been summarised multiple times. There's even a sticky with everything we need to know.
The reason this thread is still going is because of the arguments. I'm as guilty of that as any, I'll admit.
If all those currently arguing against those who are upset simply, collectively, stopped, this thread would fall off the first page within the day, if not the hour.
It's not going to happen but it's time I did my part. It's time to call it a day on this one.
My sympathy to those who will no longer be able to play.
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Pledge a pound a post and we could pay for an offline version
I think I've paid plenty already, need to save my pounds for a new flight stick, GFX card and an Occulus Rift ;-)
That is assuming the freezing issue gets fixed (which I am sure it will)
I wan't an offline mode for when I travel, connectivity even here in blighty is not 100%
In my (albeit puny) mind and with 35 years of experience dealing with the public (hostile retail, wish list retail, and now volunteer based) I have learned that their are 3 types of responses you give to complaints/concerns:
1. Explanation
2. Excuse
3. Apology
While I have used all 3 in many cases I have found that (as the song says) "2 out of 3 ain't bad" is sufficient as long as you remember to use #3 as 1 of the 2. And with sincerity in your voice.
1. Explanation
2. Excuse
3. Apology
While I have used all 3 in many cases I have found that (as the song says) "2 out of 3 ain't bad" is sufficient as long as you remember to use #3 as 1 of the 2. And with sincerity in your voice.
Somebody has summarised all the summaries since then.
It doesn't matter.
It automatically serves the same purpose as DRM when implemented, since the game won't function without it being validated and connected to a remote server all the time.
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
the only reason its not locked is because there would be 'thread full of refund claims closed by FD!!!!!!!!' posted all over the internet
I didn't say I was happy with the game, nor have I got what I wanted from the game. As things stand at the moment (Beta 3.05) I find it rather boring! That is not the point however, it could be the greatest piece of computer coding the world has ever seen (it's not) but it's really not worth getting all upset and persecuted just because an expected feature has been dropped!
Pledge a pound a post and we could pay for an offline version
If we do that, FDs next move will be to cancel the online mode.We can't have that ... theres no room in here for them as well.
Shhh. It's fun pointing it out.
I wouldn't be surprised if a background simulation would be complete absent and the world jsut static, and the ones using the illegal versino would be perfectly happy with it.
Heck, if that was the case, some might argue it would be the superior version.
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Bit late in the day to "concentrate all efforts to bring the game forward". They should have done this 6 months ago if they really wanted to make a decent game.
Bad reviews and low sales will ensure that the game never gets the updates that should have really been part of the game by now.
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