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To be honest, the only thing that annoys me is the 24 hour check-in thing, and here's why... On average I've moved house once a year for every year since I mov
by andrewingram 13y ago
To be honest, the only thing that annoys me is the 24 hour check-in thing, and here's why...
On average I've moved house once a year for every year since I moved to London in 2007. There was one place I stayed in for 18 months, but everything else was 12 months. In all these moves except one I've had to wait 3-4 weeks (sometimes more) to get my broadband connected, so essentially for 1/13th of a year the only internet I have is through my mobile phone.
These 4 weeks a year are also the times when I get most of my single-player gaming done (I'm not saying I play hours of games every night, but for a couple of nights a week for a few weeks a year I'll settle down with a good RPG or similar).
The 24 hour check-in will make this impossible, thereby probably making me play less games overall (or I could just buy a PS4...).
- Jugglernaut 13y agoJust use internet sharing on your phone =)
- untog 13y agoAt least if its just a low bandwidth "check in" you could use your phone as a WiFi hotspot. I know, you shouldn't have to. But it's an option.
- andrewingram 13y agoI've occasionally tried that with my X-Box 360, but without much luck. But if the check-in is very low bandwidth it might be worth a shot.
- seanalltogether 13y agoAnd yet the 24 hour checkin doesn't make sense in the case of digital downloads, the other app stores dont require it. If a digitally signed receipt for the game is on your system, who cares if the next time you validate against MS servers is in 24 hours or 24 years.
- snuxoll 13y agoIt makes sense when you take into account the ability to sell your digital copies, which current solutions do not allow. Otherwise, nothing is preventing you from selling your copy of Halo 5, unplugging your XBO and playing it offline for 1-2 weeks before the next mandatory check-in. It's annoying, but the 24-hour checkin is a requirement to have used game sales for the system. You can remove it if you want to get rid of any chance of reselling your games, but that'd cause even more outrage.
- seanalltogether 13y agoI would argue those scenarios aren't really all that important to check against. If someone is going to sell their game it doesn't really matter much if they sell it and play for 2 more weeks, or play for 2 more weeks then sell it. People will find their way online eventually and those that don't will be a very small minority.