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For Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight, Electronic Arts made a concerted effort to create one of the most compelling and rewarding single-player campaigns seen in the franchise to date. Sadly, this effort appears to have been hamstrung a bit by a feature that is becoming increasingly popular among publishers, but understandably unpopular among gamers.
As GamesIndustry.biz reports, EA explained on its official game forum that while C&C4 doesn’t include DRM restrictions, the game does require a constant internet connection in order to be played. And similar to the internet requirement applied by Ubisoft to their latest titles, if gamers are playing single-player or multiplayer, and the internet connection drops out, the player is kicked out of the game.
EA has defended this feature by pointing to the need to constantly update user stats. Given how multiplayer focused C&C games are, this definitely makes sense, but I don’t see why this updating couldn’t just be done the next time the player signs on to play multiplayer. Or even before the start menu pops up, kind of like how Steam updates before the application launches. If EA is so concerned about collecting statistics, you’d think they would want to create a system that was as painless and nonintrusive as possible. Then again, what do I know?
Has anyone been kicked from a C&C4 session because of a dropped internet connection?
Also, if you haven't checked it out yet, our review of Command & Conquer 4 is now up. Educate yourself!
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
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Spybreak
It's things like this that seriously make me ask the question why my rss reader doesn't allow me to "dislike" something. Big fat thumbs down on this. The only broadband option for us is satellite and unfortunately the signal can be interrupted by a freaking plane or bad weather (let alone a brown out).
ChuckieBee
OK Iv had enough. Up to this point Iv had followed the rules, grudgingly put up with the drm and paid my money like a good little pc gamer. BUT NO MORE.
I have never pirated a pc game before but if this feature remains in the game then I will. And Im not going to feel bad about. EA the very thing you tried to stop is the thing im going to do the 1st chance I get. I do not have consistent access to the internet making the game unplayable. And I will pirate all future games that require constant internet connection.
KevinJames23
All EA is doing is encouraging people to pirate the game with stupid policies like this.
pipspoolcleaning3
It's like EA's (and other companies) only strategy to combat pirating is to piss off the legit consumer enough to have the legit consumer fight the pirate war for EA (and other companies). HA! Guess again. I tell you what, you start sending me a paycheck bi-weekly for fighting this pirate war for you and I'll CONSIDER supporting this tactic.
I'm not sure who whispered into your ear that pissing off the people that support your products is a sound tactic, but they lied to you.
B1ack_Blob
God, if it wasn't for their rediculous plans with drm, I might actually like EA. Thank god they didn't pull this BS with Bad Company 2. I'll definitally never buy a game with this crap on it. No ones internet connection is perfect, and I know that mine probably would make this game unplayable. I can only hope that no other company tries this sh][t. Thanks for letting us know, thats a $50 that im know that im not gonna waste now.
greeknerd
The internet connection at my house likes to skip out a second every thirty minutes. I'm not interested in playing a game for thirty minutes and have it restart on me. Thank you EA for making me think this game sucks
Wozman23
This is pretty asinine. The whole idea of leasing games is ridiculous. If I buy a disc today, I expect to be able to put it in my machine and play it at any time, as well as 10 years from now. My Atari games still work, and I like to have nostalgic gaming days every so often. After new games lose popularity, I'd expect severs to shut down, making your disc nothing more than a shiny coaster. To me, that's acceptable for multiplayer, but including single player crosses the line.
I used to think the abuse of pre-order bonuses would be the death of gaming, but these DRM rules have now become the ace of spades.
DPsx72
DRM, malware, and the Steam virus are the biggest reasons I quit gaming on my PC. It's unacceptable to think pirates are getting better copies for free. DRM is the REASON FOR piracy, not the solution to. I hope companies realize this before it's too late. Gamers know by now that they should buy the game to fund future titles, the pirates are going to do what they do regardless. Hurting the legit customers is only taking away from their profits.
Zer01
It's sad but it makes more sense to get hold of a pirate copy, rather than have to put up with stupid DRM, they can call it what they like but at the end of the day thats all it is.
UnJaked
This makes me upset I was really looking forward to this game now it won't see any of my money.
Kouper
Hey look EA the first C&C game I WONT be purchasing. Im in a new neighborhood, our net's unreliable. Guess I'll just pirate your game, since its now more convenient to NOT pay for games.
d3stroyer427
I'm jsut gonna say it...nobody else has....
EPIC FAIL!
There, I said it ;P
Xero_Wing
what i don't get is why game companies don't just use a hardware key I had a program in collage (Quark Xpress) that required one in order to run it was basically a Thumb drive that told the program it was allowed to run on my computer
Raider253
This disappoints me greatly. I won't be picking up this game anytime soon.
pipspoolcleaning3
Really?! I guess they can afford to pigeon hole their customers. Wasn't there a time when the consumer was always right?
It amazes me how much the entertainment business (any spectrum) doesn't understand or know how to handle pirating. How many holes can one shoot in their own foot before it just becomes a bloody stump?
Rayzorshark
I can't see this idea of a requiring a constant internet connection in order to play video games lasting for long because even the best internet connection drops every once in awhile.
TurnBackThePendulum
I miss the days of when gaming was mainly offline, back when cartage's were the stander and cds where to take over on the horizon. Any way in my opinion the digital age will end up screwing up the consumers out of money, this is one medium that need to be mainly on physical media, there going to be coming out with Holographic Versatile Disc which can hold 1 to 10 terabytes of data. I would rather have this come out and be the next standard for games let it expand. Do we really want to go down the road where its just a hard drive and monthly fee to play games. Online should be for multiplayer only. This will be a down fall if this gets worse. And ask your self in a way if everything goes digital who really owns it?
GhoulSlayeR
I'll never buy a game that follows this model, unless it's a online mmo which is appropriate.
I don't always have constant internet when I game, so this game will no receive any of my money.
pingerdinger
Thats BS
JohnnyBuku
Lame. This is just another step away from us consumers 'owning' our games, and towards constantly paying monthly fees to 'lease' games. That would be great for publishers, not so great for us.
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