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<blockquote data-quote="David Newton" data-source="post: 254900" data-attributes="member: 5923"><p>Complaining that Neverwinter Nights expects internet access is just plain silly. Probably the main feature of the game is its multiplayer aspect, and unless there is a LAN handy (something that I have, but not a lot of people have), playing multiplayer NWN requires the internet.</p><p></p><p>So far as other gaming software expecting internet access is concerned, in most western countries this is also not silly. It has reached the point where the internet has achieved mass market penetration, with substantial proportions of the population having internet access (indeed large majorities of some parts of that population). Since gamers have to own a computer in the first place, and almost everybody who gets on the net does it through a PC, expecting a gamer to have internet access is even more reasonable. Expecting someone to have a broadband connection would be silly, since only a tiny minority of people have them, but dialup connections to the internet are now very common.</p><p></p><p>The limit for dialup downloads is somewhere around 3 or 4 megabytes, any more than that and the phone line is simply tied up for too long, and the phone bill is too big, if the call has to be payed for. Therefore, putting out 20Mb patches for a game is ridiculous, but from what I have seen the patches for NWN so far have been smaller than the limit for dialup downloads I defined above.</p><p></p><p>It is a sad fact of life that software is so complicated these days that bugs occur. It is also annoying that final QA is often done on Joe Public, but it is the way things are. Unless sustained pressure is brought to bear on many companies by lots of people, that fact of life will not change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="David Newton, post: 254900, member: 5923"] Complaining that Neverwinter Nights expects internet access is just plain silly. Probably the main feature of the game is its multiplayer aspect, and unless there is a LAN handy (something that I have, but not a lot of people have), playing multiplayer NWN requires the internet. So far as other gaming software expecting internet access is concerned, in most western countries this is also not silly. It has reached the point where the internet has achieved mass market penetration, with substantial proportions of the population having internet access (indeed large majorities of some parts of that population). Since gamers have to own a computer in the first place, and almost everybody who gets on the net does it through a PC, expecting a gamer to have internet access is even more reasonable. Expecting someone to have a broadband connection would be silly, since only a tiny minority of people have them, but dialup connections to the internet are now very common. The limit for dialup downloads is somewhere around 3 or 4 megabytes, any more than that and the phone line is simply tied up for too long, and the phone bill is too big, if the call has to be payed for. Therefore, putting out 20Mb patches for a game is ridiculous, but from what I have seen the patches for NWN so far have been smaller than the limit for dialup downloads I defined above. It is a sad fact of life that software is so complicated these days that bugs occur. It is also annoying that final QA is often done on Joe Public, but it is the way things are. Unless sustained pressure is brought to bear on many companies by lots of people, that fact of life will not change. [/QUOTE]
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