Cervantes
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Post by Cervantes on Sept 15, 2019 21:18:31 GMT
Spirit Bomb - By forcing every player to be online, usually logged in the publisher's servers (as most modern games also don't let you host a server on your own machine), they are guaranteeing that every single player bought an individual copy of the game. There are other reasons (as the advance of the internet made online play more common than LAN, most developers just didn't bother implementing it), but I bet anti-piracy was the driving force for the extinction of LAN support.
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Spirit Bomb
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Sept 16, 2019 19:55:52 GMT
Please excuse me for being a  *Gasp* Is this true??? LAN support is really being phased out of PC games?? WHY?  I am baffled that publishers would do this to their games. First split-screen on consoles gets axed, and now LAN support on PC? This makes me so sad. Yeah, I can't recall any new games that support LAN play anymore. It kinda sucks at LAN parties when the Internet isn't playing along. I was already aware that this was a trend on consoles; I remember being absolutely outraged when I found out that the PS3/Xbox 360 versions of Far Cry 3 didn't have LAN support like Far Cry 2 did. But I was not aware that PC games were following this trend as well. |
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I am baffled that publishers would do this to their games.