What if you lost your backup?
No Single Player offline Mode then?
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What if you lost your backup?
That's nice. I was one of the Tier 3 nix admins for the London Internet Exchange. I'll just leave that and you can work out the kind of workload that entails. Understand, in the world I used to live in before my immune system got messed up, a minute of unplanned downtime triggered Service Level Agreement penalties into the high seven digits on some clients. Now we're done comparing epeens, can we get back on topic?
I still stand by what I said, people deserve a better explanation than what's been given at this point.
Really?
Why does he have to give any details at all? It's none of Frontier's business I would have thought. If he's in the UK, the "Distance Selling Regulations 2000" allow him to request a refund without giving a reason.
Pretty sick of this "why do you care about offline" nonsense. It doesn't matter what the reasons are. People's reasons can be their own.
Get the backups from someone else or an abandonware site. Though abandonware is legally dubious.
I was in Club FU (Everquest, Bristlebane) and you couldn't get much more hardcore than that.
We had moms with kids on raids, yes. We made it work. Just be flexible and ready to change gears quickly. =)
What if you died?
How would you play then?
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I doubt they have the time as they are hard at work completing the game for the rest of us that still want to play the game.
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So don't watch the videos then.
Offline games get hacked, cheats published, it happens. It's always happened since the 8-bit days.
It's not a valid reason... sorry.
Or it could be exactly what they say, and its a matter of resource effort to result.... ie To take time to make it would take time away from developing the live evolving game that is the vision for ED. And the end result would be a poor copy and would mean both versions would suffer.
If you want to read the official answers direct from the horses mouth, have a look here?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=59481
what if you lost your cd?
Please, can someone from the FD give us some more detailed explanation that does not insult the common sense and inteligence? I mean, FFE worked well offline and many of us played it for years and enjoyed it even without fancy dynamic stuff and "exciting posibilities". Your explanations are just suspicious as much as requirement to be online all of the time to play the game. some of us pledged exclusively because of offline play and we deserve answers. This is terribly unpleasant situation and I do not want to be forced to ask refunds. Why are you treating us like criminals since we have supported you?
what with us that need to pause the game due to other things we have to do or when we are on trips and want to play elite? Not all of us can afford to play most of the day or uninterrupted for hours. Your decision is very uppseting.
and, no, this is not just some minor feature, this is a game mode that is Frontier and Elite itself!
You hope the GOG has not gone bankrupt then. This goes the same if you lost your install CDs/DVDs/Bluray of any game or movie. You lose it, it's gone. At least GOG allows you to download any time you want.
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So in reality gog and steam are in the same boat DRM or no, because if steam is gone and the chances of that happening are next to nil, I just go to abandonware/torrent too , yes?
Why is there a need to go from the average into the extreme? There are enouh guilds not hardcorely playing. I experienced alot of wipes due to telephones, girl/ boyfriends disturbing, internet or power outtages and so on....
Sorry that i didn't make myself clear enough.
yes a pause feature is definatly sth speaking for an offline mode, just the statement online can't be played due to real life circumstances could riuin your experience made me think of hundreds of wipes i encountered and somehow got used to and didn't find that it made gaming ultimatly impossible.
Sorry that i didn't make myself clear enough.
yes a pause feature is definatly sth speaking for an offline mode, just the statement online can't be played due to real life circumstances could riuin your experience made me think of hundreds of wipes i encountered and somehow got used to and didn't find that it made gaming ultimatly impossible.
Shame that this isn't really have ED functions, as there aren't hardcore guilds.
You can quite easily escape in supercruise if you want to, where you can safely exit. Might take 20 - 30 seconds tops.
Also arranging playing time - thing even people with no families do - can help.
What if I tossed all my old boxed games in the trash? How could I play them then? GOG games can be backed up infinitely but it is your responsibility to do so, the same as it's your responsibility to look after any DRM free boxed games you own.
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But then the experience will not be the same because the galaxy will feel differently, more static - not the way FD wants to create it.
FD want to create a dynamic galaxy where events influence other events and so on, not randomly but step by step. Don't you understand? They are creating a dynamic universe which would exist even without the player being there. You will be able to observe it evolving, conflicts being fought between factions having dedicated effects on surrounding markets and so on ...
It's strange, but seeing all of Michael's posts like that together they do read much better than they do in the thread(s).
I still don't agree with the reasoning, nor the decision, nor the way it was handled, but just thought I'd mention it.
Thankfully GOG being supported by CDProjektRed who are currently making the Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2070, I doubt that's going to happen any time soon. The Witcher 3 is looking like it's going to do what the Witcher 2 did and pull a Conan on RPG's.
What's a Conan? Glad you asked : "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women."
Really?
Why does he have to give any details at all? It's none of Frontier's business I would have thought. If he's in the UK, the "Distance Selling Regulations 2000" allow him to request a refund without giving a reason.
Pretty sick of this "why do you care about offline" nonsense. It doesn't matter what the reasons are. People's reasons can be their own.
Indeed it can. But you have to be prepared to be overruled.
Not only that, GOG encourage you to backup the files. It saves them having you access their files.
... And if you do lose your backups you can get the games from them again, (if you're lucky and they are still in business)
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