"Always On" and food for thought

by Claude Errera , Friday, March 08, 2013, 09:18 (4066 days ago) @ Revenant1988

Against my better judgement, I'm sharing this here as I feel a few people will find it interesting and perhaps a cautionary tale for the "always on" trend that some games are going to.

If a game like sim city can have problems like this I wonder if it's applicable to bungie? (I have no idea if the player base for sim city is/isn't/will be larger than Destiny's population)

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/simcity-launch-complete-disaster-201105322.html

Amazingly enough, games.yahoo.com is currently offline (connection refused).

However, didn't we just have a decent-sized thread about this very thing?

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"Always On" and food for thought - Revenant1988, 2013-03-08, 07:45
- Sim City merely adopted online gaming... - RC, 2013-03-08, 09:14
  - I can't enjoy this post enough - MrPadraig08, 2013-03-08, 23:45
- "Always On" and food for thought - Claude Errera, 2013-03-08, 09:18
  - "Always On" and food for thought - Revenant1988, 2013-03-08, 09:34
    - "Always On" and food for thought - Ragashingo, 2013-03-08, 10:52
- "Always On" and food for thought - Cody Miller, 2013-03-08, 09:36
  - "Always On" and food for thought - kapowaz, 2013-03-08, 09:51
    - "Always On" and food for thought - Cody Miller, 2013-03-08, 11:12
  - "Always On" and food for thought - Revenant1988, 2013-03-08, 09:53
    - "Always On" and food for thought - Cody Miller, 2013-03-08, 11:16
- "Always On" and food for thought - Malagate, 2013-03-08, 09:54
- "Always on" can be severely damaging - Avateur, 2013-03-08, 18:50
- "Always On" and food for thought - Reconcilliation, 2013-03-09, 00:41
- "Always On" and food for thought - Steve, 2013-03-09, 07:16
  - "Always On" and food for thought - ncsuDuncan, 2013-03-09, 07:42
  - Did you forget what the B stands for? - Xenos, 2013-03-09, 08:16
    - Did you forget what the B stands for? - Claude Errera, 2013-03-09, 09:58
      - Did you forget what the B stands for? - Avateur, 2013-03-09, 10:01
      - Did you forget what the B stands for? - Xenos, 2013-03-09, 10:02
      - Did you forget what the B stands for? - narcogen, 2013-03-13, 04:31
        
        Did you forget what the B stands for? - kapowaz, 2013-03-13, 04:43
        
        Did you forget what the B stands for? - Kermit, 2013-03-15, 11:09
  - "Always On" and food for thought - nico, 2013-03-09, 10:41
- "Always On" and food for thought - General Vagueness, 2013-03-14, 16:28

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