@jdh5153 said:
I agree with this guy. The internet is pretty much like electricity, it's always on, it's supposed to be that way. If your internet goes out you can go the fuck outside for 10 minutes.
My internet has been on 24/7 for over a year without a single outage, and I'm not even in a big city....People just always find something to cry and bitch about and the world goes on.
The world is an always connected world. The people who bitch about this are the people who still don't own smartphones and want to be all like "um fuck the internet, I'm too cool for the internet"
But not everybody has internet that's always available, or always stable. You're making a LOT of boneheaded assumptions about people you don't actually know because you've obviously never been in that situation yourself.
Like the bold text says: "Always connected is not excuse for not planning around what happens when there is no connection."
I should not be locked out of playing a singleplayer game just because it can't connect to a leaderboard database. There are decades of games before this where leaderboard databases didn't even matter, it was about the games themselves. Yes, having ubiquitous internet connectivity in a game is a great idea, but it's not always critical to the operation of a game, and pretending that it is critical is where this argument falls apart. Couching it in "This is the waaaave of the future" is just an easy way to get people to swallow a bitter pill. Because, well, gosh, I want to be part of the future, too! The future's cool! Or at least, it should be.
We are not at a point where I can say, "Diablo III is unplayable without an internet connection, and I can't imagine the game if it wasn't online". But Blizzard sure wants to force that ideal upon us. And if they want people to be more receptive to this concept, they CAN'T be forcing it on us, because that's how people end up hating things even if they are beneficial down the road.
This is a hamfisted way to solve a problem that to a lot of consumers doesn't even exist.
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