PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why
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The thing I'm criticizing is that they make this other kind of server impossible, even though it would be exactly the kind of backup plan you'd want for a situation like this one.
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GoG checking in with no arbitrary server requirements! Why reward companies for treating you badly?
When companies treat me like a sucker, I move on to companies that don't.
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Oh no, people not being able to play games for a few hours, please stop the suffering.
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Pretty sure they did a while ago
Especially with the stream deck, you're not going to have Internet available everywhere
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Oh they upgraded from a raspberry pi?
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It's not about people not being able to pay
It's about personal data of people getting lost
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Yep, all my GoG games would be installable without internet if I have the installer downloaded, games without DRM bought from the devs directly like Factorio would also work just fine. Loads of games are available outside of steam, some are even on github for free.
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But that is an apples to oranges comparison, just because you personally don't care about those features doesn't mean others don't care either. For games without those features mentioned in the original comment (like Baldur's Gate 3) not having join by IP is ridiculous we agree there. But for games that do it's just not feasible, there's too much of what makes the game the game in those features. Don't get me wrong, I personally think that companies should not just kill the game and should provide ways to make their game playable offline after closing the servers, but it's not as simple as allowing you to join by IP for the games being discussed here. What level would your character be? What load out would it have set? Which items would be unblocked? Etc, etc, etc, the servers that control all of that are too engrained into the fabric of the game, and that's something that happened organically because people liked those features and wanted cross-progression, security, etc. Can all of that be removed? Sure but then you're left with a shell of what the game is/was, still I believe companies should make such a release before closing the servers, but again this has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with direct join by IP.
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At least in 2013 when I started using Steam more seriously if your connection dropped it would prompt you asking if you wanted to switch to offline mode. And I know this because I had Steam on a laptop that I carried in my bag hibernating and I didn't had internet in some places I went to. So that has been fixed for over a decade.
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So that has been fixed for over a decade.
they fixed that, but if you are connected to WiFi that blocks steam it will refuse to launch your games even after you disconnect from the WiFi. I think this is to prevent piracy I guess??
I needed a software that I bought on steam for schoolwork and I couldn't use it because steam was having a panic attack over my schools wifi. Inst of preventing piracy I went and pirated the software to not have that issue LOL
