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Re: Just Cause 3 -- BEWARE....

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From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:05
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On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 05:30:10 GMT, john...@frontier.com (John Lewis)
wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:44:09 -0500, Rin Stowleigh
><rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 03:05:45 GMT, john...@frontier.com (John Lewis)
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Ubisoft is using a modified form of "offline" mode... again.... for SP
>>>play.. you are automatically broght back on-line after any PAUSE ( to
>>>read the map etc..). and the on-line mode is broken. 
>>>
>>>When will those turds ever learn ??  If you have pre-ordered on Steam,
>>>make sure that you do not go above the return-limit on play-hours ( 2
>>>hours??)
>>
>>I thought it was weird that they would release this title almost
>>simultaneously with Rainbow Six Siege.  Not that they are similar
>>games, but two major franchise offerings only a day apart struck me as
>>odd.  Release timing is everything.  I guess the holiday timing is
>>important enough to them that it's worth it?
>>
>>Or maybe they just have enough data to believe the 2 games have
>>different audiences.  It would be true in my case -- I may look into
>>JC3 at some point but I really never got into JC2.  The multiplayer
>>was interesting but nothing that would hold my interest.
>>
>
>Sorry, wrong publisher... should be Square Enix, not Ubi. Same on-line
>wasting-DRM-disease in the SP mode.

Makes more sense.
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