C&C 4 to require internet to play

[Hoodoo]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009 ... ternet.ars

C&C 4 is not an MMO in the sense of World of Warcraft, but conceptually it has similar principles for being online all the time,

O god.

In fact, in a prior interview, Designer Samuel Bass claimed "as a nice side effect, since C&C4 requires players to be online all the time in order to prevent cheating, we'll be shipping without any form of DRM."

HAHAHAHA

 

[MetalCraze]

Well at least it won't have any of that online DRM

 

[catfood]

That'll show those filthy pirates.

Don't actually care about it, I never really liked the C&C series anyways. I found the interface kinda awkward.

 

[skyway]

In fact, in a prior interview, Designer Samuel Bass claimed "as a nice side effect, since C&C4 requires players to be online all the time in order to prevent cheating, we'll be shipping without any form of DRM."

HAHAHAHA

Digital rights management or Digital Restrictions Management, he doesnt specify.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Not C&C Generals 2? Screw it.

 

[The Vanished One]

I'm sure it will be only a temporary annoyance, appropriate patches will be available within two weeks from release.

 

[Vortexx]

So people will just set up private servers like they do for all the other online games.

 

[kris]

So people will just set up private servers like they do for all the other online games.

Probably won't even need that, unless the game is 100% online.

 

[Luzur]

I'm sure it will be only a temporary annoyance, appropriate patches will be available within two weeks from release.

two weeks? try two hours after release.

 

[Frau Bishop]

I nearly barfed up my Schnitzel when I had to go online for Bioshock once.
So, thanks, not interested, not even if I were interested, which I'm not as the franchise turned to shit about 10 years ago.

 

[JarlFrank]

And this is going to stop piracy exactly *how*?
There are hacks for MMOs to make them work in offline single player mode, so...

 

[Secretninja]

Not C&C Generals 2? Screw it.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

so how does this affect non-pirates with a good internet connection?

butthurt pirates itt

 

[Jaime Lannister]

Not C&C Generals 2? Screw it.

did i miss the part where generals was a good game?

 

[Turok]

Hey mom the new game you bough is telling me that i need internet.
Sorry son, we use the money for pay the internet for buy you C&C 4.

:D

 

[racofer]

Hey mom the new game you bough is telling me that i need internet.
Sorry son, we use the money for pay the internet for buy you C&C 4.

:D

BUT MOM I WAAAAANNNNNTTTTZZZZZZZ BAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Not C&C Generals 2? Screw it.

did i miss the part where generals was a good game?

For an RTS? Of course it's a good game.

 

[TheWesDude]

requiring an internet connection for copy verification to prevent pirates...

that is DRM dumbass

 

[Destroid]

Yeah generals was good. But no game bearing the Red Alert title has been worth playing.

 

[Hoodoo]

Yeah generals was good. But no rts post by Destroid is worth reading.

fixd

 

[1eyedking]

After the rape that C&C 3 was to the original C&C and Tiberian Sun, I frankly couldn't care less about the future of the series at the hands of EA.

Let the violation continue, I've grown comfortably numb.

 

[VonVentrue]

Not C&C Generals 2? Screw it.

Generals has as much in common with C&C as Fallout 3 with Fallout, I have no idea why EA insisted on putting the "C&C" in the title. Purely for marketing reasons, most probably.

After the rape that C&C 3 was to the original C&C and Tiberian Sun, I frankly couldn't care less about the future of the series at the hands of EA.

My thoughts exactly. The "tiberian" storyline ended with Firestorm for me.

 

[Volrath]

Tiberian Sun was awesome, fuck the haters.

 

[1eyedking]

Tiberian Sun had awesome atmosphere, and that's pretty hard to achieve in a RTS game.

 

[poocolator]

So what? Just spoof a server.
Also, who cares? It's C&C4, man! C&C died with the originals.