Former CEO of Electronic Arts: gamers will “learn to love” always-online gaming
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As much as they backpedal and deny it when their DRM schemes blow up in their faces, EA's endgame is to push this shit on gamers if it kills them. Which, hopefully, it will.
First thing that came to mind when reading that title
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I seriously doubt that half of you even read the article.
[editline]22nd May 2013[/editline]
I mean he's saying some decent shit, but everyone's just going LALALLALALAL CAN'T HEAAAAR YOU
When internet is free and never goes down and is availble all over the globe wirelessly, this would be acceptable.
[QUOTE=cccritical;40745643]did anybody else see the part where he wasn't praising always-online and actually spoke against it? no? just me?[/QUOTE]
No, people are just reading the title and- oh yeah, SH.
People will also learn to love Hitler. That still doesn't mean it's a good thing.
[QUOTE=Crazy;40749667]People will also learn to love Hitler. That still doesn't mean it's a good thing.[/QUOTE]
Makes it easy to tell who hasn't read the article, judging by a lot of these posts.
[QUOTE=Jawalt;40746197]It's funny how everyone hating has a Steam icon under their avatar.[/QUOTE]
Online digital distribution platform =/ Phyisical Console
You're not buying these games online and downloading them, you're most likely buying the from a brick and mortar game store, or from a site that ships a physical copy of the game to you. Steam NEEDS to be online because the games are digital, not physical. You download them and play them, unlike the console. Though consoles allow for digital copies to be bought and downloaded, there is sitll no reason for this to be mandatory, especially for people who don't have secure/any connections to an internet service.
Stop trying to lump these two services together, they are both completely different and only related in the fact that you can play games on them.
Besides, you can still play games on steam even if you're offline, you just cant buy/download any, use cloud saving or utilize the community features. Which makes sense because these things NEED a connection to function. Unlike a console, which is online using the online-always function as a system to prevent piracy (which is often easily bypassed) or get more money from their services.
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he should learn to love my dick
[quote]I mean he's saying some decent shit, but everyone's just going LALALLALALAL CAN'T HEAAAAR YOU[/quote]
And yet failed to hit the bullseye that I and others brought up: It doesn't matter if the thing that drives all those things that he expects to lock into place eventually are all aggravated by a lack of service, or a lack of [i]good[/i] service. Worse: ignoring that the problem of good service is a factor, if not the [i]prime[/i] factor in that equation.
My post was about pointing out that he was putting the cart in front of the horse. If they don't solve the problem of the internet, they [i]won't[/i] solve the full measure of always-online, including everything that he brought up that I also brought up last page. The only people who will accept it are the people who aren't aggravated or affected by it; he's talking about the broader spectrum.
So no, not everyone, and yes he has some decent points but to cop the phrasing he used himself: "[i]it's about the internet, stupid[/i]" (and I don't mean to imply you're stupid, just saying that's what he should've been writing). Salient points or not, they're the side-show to that main event. Even though he's aware that it's bad for consoles to be always online right now when comes to DRM and so forth and is rallying for consoles to be more connected (thus why he wants them to be cautious, so that people won't over-react and overtly dismiss the idea) -- he's still failing to see the forest for the trees. Even all that should be approached with caution: people will have pay-for-byte internet connections or data plans and those people will be customers and they [i]definitely[/i] won't appreciate being hit by 'surprise bills' because their console did something they weren't aware of or [i]worse[/i] don't know how to turn off. Pushing aggressively on the 'lower bandwidth/more opt-in/more background and invisible' front too aggressively could also have a chilling effect which seems to be the thrusting point of his article: how to avoid any such chilling effects.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;40750164]he should learn to love my dick[/QUOTE]
Dammit, was about to say that he can learn to love my dick in his ass....
Didn't he watch what happened to SimCity?
No wonder he is a "Former"
[QUOTE=Drasnus;40744550]Stockholm Syndrome maybe.[/QUOTE]
First thought that crossed my mind, too.
[QUOTE=Drasnus;40744550]Stockholm Syndrome maybe.[/QUOTE]
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Gabe Newell:
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[QUOTE=Jawalt;40746197]It's funny how everyone hating has a Steam icon under their avatar.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=don818;40745814]He's absolutely right though. I always hated always online bs though, even Steam. I'm willing to put up with Steam cause it's the main thing I use for games and chatting. But if that wasn't the case, it'd get used as much as origin does.[/QUOTE]
Except he's wrong
steam isn't always online and he's talking about shit like sim city
No, he isn't "absolutely right", he's a tool.
[QUOTE=legolover122;40748047]My internet can cut out and the steam servers can cut out and I can still play my games. You just have to be online to sign in.
[editline]23rd May 2013[/editline]
And then there's offline mode which I haven't had any issues with, even going from a complete reboot.[/QUOTE]
Same here. I run steam in offline mod for literal weeks or months at a time. No issues here.
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