Warning to those buying Crysis.

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Warning to those buying Crysis.; Microsoft stamps out offline gamers
Tweet Topic Started: Oct 5 2011, 09:39 AM (765 Views)
bediger	Oct 5 2011, 09:39 AM Post #1
Game Fan Posts: 1,422 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 17, 2009	"In a form of total control over their product, Microsoft and EA have made it a requirement that when playing the recently released Crysis you have to be connected to the Xbox Live service. If you are happily playing Crysis and Xbox Live goes down, or you have problems with your network, you're given 10 minutes (which counts down sending you messages at 1 minute intervals) to restore your connection. Failure to do so results in being given no choice but to go back to the Xbox dashboard. If you're wanting to boot up the game and you're offline, the game won't even launch. So if you're wanting to play Crysis offline with the same profile that downloaded it and paid the price, you can't. Other games such as Resident Evil 4 HD which also released recently do allow you to play offline, so why not with Crysis? This is a shame and perhaps something to combat gamers sharing data across multiple profiles, but in the end this is rather limiting if you've paid for something which can then only be used under strict conditions. Not really a good advocate for digital downloads. We're not even going to ask Microsoft to comment on this because we already can anticipate their lack of response." "Update: It seems that this only occurs if you have downloaded the game on multiple consoles. The game will run offline if you're playing on the console that you originally downloaded the game onto. So if you do live in a household with multiple consoles, make sure they are all connected to Live to avoid this, especially if you're moving profiles around." Source Edited by bediger, Oct 5 2011, 09:42 AM.
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Mett	Oct 5 2011, 09:44 AM Post #2
Level 5 Posts: 593 Group: Members Member #405 Joined: Mar 17, 2009	Thanks for the heads up, will buy for ps3 then.
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bediger	Oct 5 2011, 10:06 AM Post #3
Game Fan Posts: 1,422 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 17, 2009	There seems to be a suggestion that something similar is at work on the PS3 version. Although, I haven't read anything confirming this...
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RatchetAndClank	Oct 31 2011, 08:45 AM Post #4
Apprentice of Mark Nutt Posts: 346 Group: Members Member #3,689 Joined: Apr 8, 2011	That's really weird, never heard of a company doing that before Edited by RatchetAndClank, Oct 31 2011, 08:46 AM.



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