Wow this is disgusting stuff from Microsoft and EA. What do you guys think of this?
Link: http://www.msxbox-world.com/news/article/16573/microsoft-stamps-out-offline-gamers.html
From the Article:
In a form of total control over their product, Microsoft and EA have made it a requirement that when playing the recently released Crysis you have to be connected to the Xbox Live service. If you are happily playing Crysis and Xbox Live goes down, or you have problems with your network, you're given 10 minutes (which counts down sending you messages at 1 minute intervals) to restore your connection. Failure to do so results in being given no choice but to go back to the Xbox dashboard. If you're wanting to boot up the game and you're offline, the game won't even launch. So if you're wanting to play Crysis offline with the same profile that downloaded it and paid the price, you can't. Other games such as Resident Evil 4 HD which also released recently do allow you to play offline, so why not with Crysis? This is a shame and perhaps something to combat gamers sharing data across multiple profiles, but in the end this is rather limiting if you've paid for something which can then only be used under strict conditions. Not really a good advocate for digital downloads. We're not even going to ask Microsoft to comment on this because we already can anticipate their lack of response.
