swatbat
[H]F Junkie
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sounds great, but gimme an offline mode ala Steam and I'll love it. Leave out offline mode and I'll hate it.
Wait, am I missing something? This is just a worse version of Steam right? Steam already has close to 0 piracy, so what is Ubisoft aiming for?
Oh and I loved this answer: "If you're connection is lost, the game will pause and try to re-establish connection to the server. If it cannot, you will be able to later resume from the last game save." It won't even let you save your game state if the connection is lost. Not buying any Ubisoft games with this system. Thanks but no thanks..
Yea if they had some kind of offline mode this wouldn't be that bad. Personally I have refused to buy anything from them pc gaming wise since the starforce that came with splintercell fucked up my notebook. Made it so my notebook couldn't burn a cd or dvd. I was about to buy a new dvdrw for it when I noticed something about this starforce bullshit. At the time the game had been long uninstalled from my notebook as well because I had beat it. Yea fuck them, I will not install their stuff on my pc again after they sold me what amounted to a virus.
Apart from those two groups, the rest of us do have internet connections. The notion that we're somehow not going to be able to connect to the Ubisoft website to play AC 2 is just ridiculous - that's just not going to happen. That same argument was advanced when Steam was released - people said, oh but what if Steam goes down, I won't be able to play any of my games! Nope, the only thing that people had to fear in that situation was fear itself.
One they will have downtime. It may or may not affect you. I use to play my games from my notebook and when traveling so this would affect me. Even with my evdo card you have areas where you just can't get a good connection(or if you are say flying). Also steam sucked major ass when it first came out. They had a lot of issues with people connecting. I was in a gaming clan at the time and my clan tag was a flash animation of the steam error box. I missed a few clan matches because steam was too busy to verify my account for a game I payed for the right to play on servers I was paying for. Mind you they did fix these issues, it was a big problem at the time for us. Hell I had bought 2 copies of half life 2. Played HL2 on my desktop and had the second copy because that was the only way to get CS:S at the time.
I've already seen issues with my xbox connecting to uplay with ac2. As of now my verizon fios is pretty stable but I have seen glitches before. I'd be pissed if I had to replay a section of a single player game because it lost connection to the servers. Yes it is something that will happen to people. Hell let it at least save the progress locally and let you restart once it connects. Or better yet have an offline option.
and during their time off do you really think they want to spend their time playing AC2???
here's a solid clue- No
Ha!
LOL at the above debate about US military personnel not being able to play Assassin's Creed 2 because they can't connect to the internet!
The US Army can't connect to the internet. LOL! That is rich!
First off I've had multiple friends stationed overseas and most of them had a notebook with games loaded on it. Hell a few had consoles. Second the internet connection in many places sucks ass. I know a few that were stationed in areas that bought evdo cards so they could have a better internet connection. One had some pictures of being stationed in Kuwait if I remember right where they had a big cell antenna pointed towards a city as the base was a ways from it. It was the only way they could get a connection worth a shit and even then it wasn't very good.