Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Kadayi says:

Personally if my internet was constantly going down, I’d contact my ISP and get them to fix it. After all I’m paying for a service, which they’re not providing. The notion that people happily tolerate having constant disconnects and do nothing about it, but are more than happy to lose their shit over games that require internet access is frankly farcical tbh.

@ArcaneSaint

The game requires initial launch access only. You can disconnect your internet if you wish after launch and save your precious packets.

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Kadayi says:

@malkav11

IIRC, they only went down after some AIM weren’t going to buy the game anyway decided to take them down, therefore punishing those gamers who had bought the game.

Also you play them off against each other till you get better service.

@Kiara

For someone with such terrible internet you sure seem to be on the internet a lot tbh (generally complaining about Steam and suchlike). Clearly you’re suffering. Also no one guarantees you an ‘X speed’ line, they always state up to X speed. Quit making out that your somehow hard done by up in Finland, it’s the same everywhere.

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Kadayi says:

@Kiara

You seem to love the argument “if you don’t suffer from it, don’t complain”.

Nope. I’ve not said that at all. My opinion is merely that people like yourself blow things entirely out of proportion. Let’s say that From Dust takes about 8 hours to play, let’s then say that in any given year you experience 1 hours worth of dis-connectivity a week from the internet (a more than generous figure I’d say given your posting regularity) now lets do the math: -

Number of hours in a year : – 8760

Number of hours of internet dis-connectivity in a year: – 52

% of time not connected to the internet in a year: – 0.64388% (1/168)

Now lets say that you play From Dust twice through so 16 hours in a year: -

Number of hours in a year : – 8760

Number of hours played of From Dust – 16

% of time playing From Dust in a year: – 0.19811%(1/504)

So the odds of you attempting to play From Dust and not having internet access at the same time are around = 1/68544 or roughly 0.0014589%.

Sure higher than zero, but hardly worthy of the kind of outrage and protestations (as well as innumerable calls to arms for boycotts and mass piracy that are doing the rounds). Especially given the game doesn’t require always on internet to play (I’d break everything down into 30 second chunks, but it would get astronomical).

I’m not a fan of DRM in any form, but plain truth of the matter is it really that big of an issue when you get down to the actual likelihood? Less that 0.001% .

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