LikeMaple Story,Command & Conquer 4will require an Internet connection to play.
Expanding on a previousmessage board Q&A sessionby Electronic Arts Redwood Shores’ Jimmy Feasel, community manager Aaron Kaufman toldCommand and Conquer DENreaders thatC&C 4will require players to be online constantly, mostly because of the “player progression” stuffwe’ve been teased with.
“As of right now, you need to be online all the time to playC&C 4,” Kaufman told readers. “This is primarily due to our ‘player progression’ feature so everything can be tracked.C&C 4is not an MMO in the sense ofWorld of Warcraft, but conceptually it has similar principles for being online all the time. While some may be taken aback by this, we’ve been testing this feature internally with all of our world-wide markets.”
Whoa. And you thoughtStarcraftLAN players got the shaft. LikeStarcraft II’s LAN-lessness, we have a feeling this has something to do with DRM more so than uploading statistics to a server. We’ll check it out for you.
[viaJoystiq]
