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Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why

Damn reading the impact this has is some combination of hilarious and horrifying to see people bought into a service like this. If it was free or simply a monthly sub like Netflix I could kinda understand. But a sub to use things you also had to buy? Fuck that.

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flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Not sure if this is still the case, but with Steam if you didn’t put the client into “offline mode” ahead of time the client wouldn’t open, let alone launch a game once the connection was lost.

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- Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  At least in 2013 when I started using Steam more seriously if your connection dropped it would prompt you asking if you wanted to switch to offline mode. And I know this because I had Steam on a laptop that I carried in my bag hibernating and I didn’t had internet in some places I went to. So that has been fixed for over a decade.
  
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  - TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    So that has been fixed for over a decade.
    
    they fixed that, but if you are connected to WiFi that blocks steam it will refuse to launch your games even after you disconnect from the WiFi. I think this is to prevent piracy I guess??
    
    I needed a software that I bought on steam for schoolwork and I couldn’t use it because steam was having a panic attack over my schools wifi. Inst of preventing piracy I went and pirated the software to not have that issue LOL
    
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- SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Pretty sure they did a while ago
  
  Especially with the stream deck, you’re not going to have Internet available everywhere
  
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emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Tbf all platforms have this. Steams not much better. Neither is the Xbox ecosystem. We truly are in the worst timeline.

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- CaptSpify@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  GoG checking in with no arbitrary server requirements! Why reward companies for treating you badly?
  
  When companies treat me like a sucker, I move on to companies that don’t.
  
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  - Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yep, all my GoG games would be installable without internet if I have the installer downloaded, games without DRM bought from the devs directly like Factorio would also work just fine. Loads of games are available outside of steam, some are even on github for free.
    
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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The difference is if steam goes down I might not be able to play a few games. If xbox (what is their service?) goes down you can’t play any games.
  
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