Rock, Paper, Shotgun has word that
From Dust does indeed require a constant internet connection to play, in spite of assurances from Ubisoft directly to us and VG247 that the god game would not use this form of DRM (we were told "You will not need to be connected online when playing From Dust's single player campaign and challenge modes"). requires connecting to the internet every time the game is launched, and there are comments on RPS from readers who claim they've been able to get refunds for the game through
Steam based on the misrepresentation of the game's DRM.
Updated: Apologies for the initial misinterpretation of this, as the game does
not require a constant internet connection. The uproar is actually over the game needing to validate over the internet to launch each time it plays. This is apparently a contradiction to some previous forum posts, but is not necessarily inconsistent with what we were told about the game's DRM. Our sincere apologies for the error, and its unnecessary contribution to the uproar over this.
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Prez wrote on Aug 19, 2011, 08:42: It's not Blue who needs to be apologizing for the confusion - it's Ubisoft. They have been acting so stupidly it's sometimes hard to imagine how they became successful in the first place. Seriously, there's virtually no difference. So they won't boot you from the game if your internet connection goes out while you're playing it; how kind. If the cloud sync save thing is true they might as well boot you when your connection dies. This is just jackass MBA double speak, 'I said you didn't always needed to be connected, I didn't say you don't always have to be connected to start playing the game. TEEHEE ain't I a stinker *eat shit grin*'
I can only hope blue has some invisible sarcasm tags with his apology, because he really didn't need to.
I've been eyeing Dust as a possible purchase, but not after this, at least not until they clear up the DRM/Cloud/whatever issues. |
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Aug 18, 21:36 |
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Aug 18, 22:39 |
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Aug 18, 22:46 |
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Aug 19, 07:56 |
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Aug 19, 08:39 |
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Aug 19, 08:42 |
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Aug 19, 01:42 |
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Aug 19, 04:22 |
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Aug 19, 07:06 |
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Aug 19, 21:44 |
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