{"id":721731,"date":"2010-04-22T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004837"},"modified":"2010-04-21T23:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T03:21:57","slug":"downloadable-ps3-game-requires-you-to-be-online-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/721731","title":{"rendered":"Downloadable PS3 Game Requires You To Be Online To Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/fight-thumb-158x99-39582.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Sony has taken a page out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/stay-online-while-you-play-assassins-creed-2-on-pc-or-ubisoft-will-end-you.html\">Ubisoft DRM-bungling playbook<\/a> and required gamers playing the downloadable retro game Final Fight: Double Impact to be online in order to play. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/04\/21\/ps3-final-fight-double-impact-requires-psn-connection\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fjoystiq+%28Joystiq%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">According to Joystiq<\/a>, this must be a Sony-only thing because the game plays fine offline on the Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose this isn&#8217;t that big of deal, right? It&#8217;s not like Sony&#8217;s servers ever <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/sony-takes-play-out-of-playstation-3-with-global-outage.html\">crash globally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/04\/21\/ps3-final-fight-double-impact-requires-psn-connection\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fjoystiq+%28Joystiq%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">PS3 Final Fight: Double Impact requires PSN connection<\/a> [Joystiq]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has taken a page out of the Ubisoft DRM-bungling playbook and required gamers playing the downloadable retro game Final Fight: Double Impact to be online in order to play. According to Joystiq, this must be a Sony-only thing because the game plays fine offline on the Xbox 360. I suppose this isn&#8217;t that big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31KP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}