“As of right now, you need to be online all the time to play C&C 4. This is primarily due to our ‘player progression’ feature so everything can be tracked. C&C 4 is not an MMO in the sense of World of Warcraft, but conceptually it has similar principles for being online all the time,” Community Leader APOC wrote. Therefore there’s no way out of it, you will NEED an active Internet connection to be able to play.
EA says that it’s no real big deal and it shouldn’t inflect the profitability of the game. They also confirm that you will not need a broadband connection, in fact, you can get away with using dial-up. But still… this is a major downer for anyone wanting to play this on a plane or any other place without an Internet connection.
It seems to me that games which require an internet connection are just another way of reducing piracy as another form of DRM. This is all well and good, but realistically, does EA really think people are only going to be playing the game where theres’s an internet connection? Often on planes there are not, and RTS games are a great way of passing time in these situations.
