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by sgift
4663 days ago
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I can only speak for my observations in the gaming community and there are more or less two camps, which can be summarized as: No back-dialing, ever. Basically they do not want the company to have a remote-switch to disable the software after they've buyed it, do not want the risk to not be able to play a game anymore just because a company decided to put down the servers and want to be able to play everywhere without an internet connection (e.g. I sit at my laptop and cannot play your singleplayer game because you decided to need dial-back? No chance.) The other camp doesn't care about it, more or less. Sure, they would like it if there was no dial-back for the games, but it doesn't hinder them from still buying and playing at platforms/games that require this as long as their playing experience isn't dimished by it. Steam is more or less the platform of choice for the second camp and seems to be growing all the time, so most users probably would acccept an dial-back connection once, every 30 days or even at every start. Quick note: Always-On is still something which is considered off-limits. Ubisoft tried it various times with their games and fell flat on the face. They've backpaddled to activate once by now. |
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