ROF online shenanigan.

[BadAim]

This is the price we pay for living amongst thieves. Right or wrong, the honest people always have to pay the price for the thieves and the fools. I will try out the demo, and see if the price is worth it in this case.

[Skoshi Tiger]

To me the biggest issue is what happens in a year or twos time. What happens is their game is not profitable and they don't get the ongoing sales? Will they just turn off their servers and move on to the next title? Even if they "guarantee" the servers will be up for X amount of time, even with all the best intentions it means nothing. The the economic crisis and all, businesses are going bust left, right and centre.

[virre89]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

To me the biggest issue is what happens in a year or twos time. What happens is their game is not profitable and they don't get the ongoing sales? Will they just turn off their servers and move on to the next title? Even if they "guarantee" the servers will be up for X amount of time, even with all the best intentions it means nothing. The the economic crisis and all, businesses are going bust left, right and centre.

They will simply remove the login feature if something like that would occur.
Besides even if the company would go bankrupt or something its very comon that servers are handed over or taken over by a willing partner for the continues satisfaction of the customers.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by virre89

They will simply remove the login feature if something like that would occur.

Who exactly is "They"? If the company goes into recievership, it's assets will be placed into the hands of the recievers and frozen. I doubt there would be anyone, save hackers, that would unlock the game. Too bad for the poor mugs who own the game.

Originally Posted by virre89

Besides even if the company would go bankrupt or something its very comon that servers are handed over or taken over by a willing partner for the continues satisfaction of the customers.

Who is this "willing partner"? Like as not the servers will be auctioned off to pay crediters, the game could also fall in the hands of a company that wan't to milk the customers for every last cent. One auto update "patch would be all it would take to make it into pay for play! Once again, too bad for the poor mugs who own the game.


There are too many uncertainties, poor old simmers like me still work on the premis that if we pay to a game we own it. Unfortunately we don't and the big issue for me here is that even though we've paid for it were tied into their online verification just to use our licence.

i'm sure the developers of ROF have all the best intensions. Unfortunately one they develop the sim they pass it on to the Publishers, who pass it on to the distributors who pass it on to the retailers. The Developers have very little to do with the sim once it leaves their hands! Just note on how long we've been waiting for 4.09 to come out of Beta!


Cheers!