| naznatips said: @Gnizmo that's not how it works. You don't have to renew it every 10 days, just every 10 days you want to play. For example, you could not play Mass Effect for a month, and when you connect it will do the same verification it would do if you hadn't played it in 10 days. It just means that every 10 days and longer since your last activation, when you go to start up the game it will require verification. Most likely a process that takes less than 30 seconds. |
That is exactly how it works. Read my example again. If I go a month without playing it, the next time I try to play it then I will have to verify it. If my internet is down, which it often is at home for a number of reasons you could not care less about, I can't play the game. When my internet goes out I tend to look at old games I want to play, and a lot of the time those are PC games. Steam is less of an issue because I can just turn it on and keep it running with zero to no affect on my general performance. When the internet goes down most of the time steam doesn't try to update. The few times it has I have been pissed and grumbled until I found a different game to play. Running a game in the background would slow my computer down.
This is not the absolute horrific issue people are trying to make it out to be though. I am in a very small minority who will be aggravated by this problem. I do have a "moral" objection to single player games requiring and internet connection, but thats really nothing at all. I certainly will not pay support the system though. It certainly does affect me in a way I percieve to be relatively major. I really hope they remove this feature from Spore.
@Ail
Read my post again, and then try to blow it off. I have a solid internet connection at school and work, but a sketchy one at home. 90% of my posts are from school or work. 0% of them are from home when my internet craps out for the day. Trying to use my post count as a way to dismiss my complaint is stupid.
