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In article <khe869$fsf$1@speranza.aioe.org>, no-spam@never.spam says...
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> Amazon UK briefly suspends sales of SimCity video game
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21712910 
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In a youtube let's play video of the beta I heard the poster rabbit on 
about how stupid people are who would miss out on a wonderful game 
experience because of the forever online requirement. "Forever online 
requirement is here to stay" he blathered.

Personally I thought how stupid to miss out on a sale because I for one 
won't buy a game that I can't play on my laptop while I'm sitting in a 
motel some place, or in an aeroplane ... (many wireless connections 
won't support the SimCity5 speed requirements!)

Well it seems the people who posted on my game retailer's website are up 
in arms. Installation taking hours, and connection to the game servers 
not happening - not just for 30 minutes as quoted in the BBC article, 
but for 3 hours plus before they gave up in disgust. 

As I see it, that makes for 2.5 options here:
1) don't buy it
2) don't buy it
2.5 - make sure you can get a hacked copy so you don't have to be online 
to play, in which case, actually, why buy it in the first place?

Right? 

As I told the firaxis support guy: if I buy a game on media in a box, I 
expect not to have to run Steam all the time in order to run my game 
(Civ V). So they lost my custom for the future. Plenty of people are 
taking a stand and publishing games and ebooks without "DRM". I've 
bought into two Kickstarter projects lately for just that reason.

At least with the steam thing you can run steam in offline mode when 
you're not connected, so you can still use your software.

-P.