Its bloody frustrating that is Dano, your internet goes down and you cant play the games that you purchased.

That's why I didn't buy ROF at the time of release...and still to this day:grin:

Buying downloads isn't the only area where problems can occur.

During one period several years ago I bought a large amount of FS add-ons from Just Flight. they were CD/DVDs shipped to my home address. I got bonus points (that gave discounts on future purchases) for every game I bought. I saved a lot of these bonuses: enough to buy several new games.

When I tried to cash-in the bonus points in they couldn't find my account details - I had changed computer and internet address, internet provider etc. since my purchases. I got nothing.

I can only imagine how much more troubling it would have been if I didn't even have the discs in my possession. At least I only lost my bonus points, and not games I'd already paid for!

I will never buy any game that I can't hold in my hand.

Maybes its time for you old schoolers to actually upgrade to a 24/7 hour >working< broadband...
Its 2011 and developers couldn't care less, the future is digital distribution, deal with it.

And if it goes down its not the end of the world, why cry so much because you can't play your precious game for a
short while when the Internet is getting repaired or whatever it might be, just makes me sick the whole lack of patience.

RoF was and still is a great title, imo feel sorry for people boycotting it for such reasons(DRM etc).

I live on the West Coast of Australia, Unless you want to pay for an overnight courier, packages take about 5 working days (Sat and Sunday not included) to get to me IF they're posted from the Eastern States the day their paid for, Plus the extra time it takes them to get to Oz in the first place!

My DCS:A10 became corrupted yesterday and I had to download the beta 4 again. It only took me 2 hours using bittorrent. Hmmm!

Given the option of buying a download or reading you guys on these forums talking about how fantastic SOW is, for up to a month before it hits the shelves near me, I know which option I'ld take!!!!


It would be fantastic if I could buy the licence online, and the Boxed set turned up sometime later, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Cheers!

You show me one Broadband provider who has had a 100% uptime record... other than that get a grip, nobody is crying, just pointing out the bad side of the whole online only method which when people have limited time to play their games becomes a ball ache if it happens to coincide with an outage.

If you enjoy only "renting" a game good for you! As long as defect keys and other trash foul up downloaded games, or being forced to be online even when you wish to be offline, is a no go for me. That has nothing to do with old school at all but common sence, do you know what might be going on while you are playing your game? I have a feeling you are a bit old school yourself and are not up to date on some of the nasties people can pull off with out you even noticing it.

Some people like to play games at the cottage, on the train, while crossing the Pacific on a 12 hour flight to Incheon, etc. There are reasons why people don't like having to constantly be online. Ubisoft had the big debacle with their servers going down, saves being lost, and other such things. Flight sims can sometimes take hours without time acceleration, and inflight-saves are not that common. I don't want to spend an hour or two flying to a destination, shooting down a personal best, and having my game crash to the menu and lose all my progress a minute before landing because my wireless router hiccupped or the net connection blinked.

I'm not saying that companies shouldn't try and protect their product, but if they went with a "have to be connected to play" DRM scheme then what's to stop players from getting screwed over if the company's decides they don't want to pay for the authentication server after a year because sales have slowed? People are still playing the game, but they're not giving the company any more money. Maybe the company might not even release a patch to allow offline play before they can the servers? Maybe they don't have a choice because they went out of business or got bought out and it's out of their hands.

Lots of stuff can happen, and sometimes being a physical copy Luddite pays off.

That bringing the date into a conversation as a point about tech always amuses me, it's so old, and the tech always changes again.

There's a black and white film, with speech, where some character says something like that (but not about records, I made that up).

I would prefer a box, provided it includes fold out keyboard maps (to use until I remember all the keys), large map, unit data sheet, and a poster to decorate my room. :)

And I will order online said box package. :)

Gone from store, not from mind.

PS! (predictive sensor)
51% it will be here BEFORE April 1's