In what seems to be the next-gen of DRM, Blizzard and EA have made bones with a terrible idea: adding always-connected to solo games that have a multiplayer aspect. In the case of Diablo III it hurt sales and wounded a fan favorite by burdening it with an always-on connection, with SimCity Online it added unnecessary conditions to play and made it impossible to get onto during launch. Kyt Dotson opines about this “feature” as EA and Blizzard have seen it and how abusing the cloud could negatively affect the gaming industry on SiliconANGLE with “Abusing the Cloud: When Solo Games Get Connected”.
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