It wasn't really a "big" release in terms of something that everyone has heard of, but Anno 2070 has some of that always-on DRM bundled in it. I pre-ordered the game (fan of the series) and both didn't have a problem with it on release day or since. That's not to say the Ubisoft client (U Play) isn't a real pain to navigate through to actually play the game, but it didn't have anything like the problems I'm seeing about SimCity. Of course, it's a comparison of several thousand people in Anno to who knows how many in SimCity, but at least I could play it from the get-go.
Down here in eastern Texas, my only option is Suddenlink. I pay $85 a month for 30 mb/s download and 2 mb/s upload with a 200 gig cap.
Sure, I could upgrade to the next tier up (another $20 a month and 100 mb/s download, 5 mb/s upload), but they won't raise my bandwidth cap at all to match the increased speed. But they would be happy to charge me an extra $10 for every 50 gigs I exceed my current cap.
It's a combination of their higher tier services costing too much for people to care to upgrade, bandwidth caps that don't scale with the increased speed and a miserable upload comparison.
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It wasn't really a "big" release in terms of something that everyone has heard of, but Anno 2070 has some of that always-on DRM bundled in it. I pre-ordered the game (fan of the series) and both didn't have a problem with it on release day or since. That's not to say the Ubisoft client (U Play) isn't a real pain to navigate through to actually play the game, but it didn't have anything like the problems I'm seeing about SimCity. Of course, it's a comparison of several thousand people in Anno to who knows how many in SimCity, but at least I could play it from the get-go.
Down here in eastern Texas, my only option is Suddenlink. I pay $85 a month for 30 mb/s download and 2 mb/s upload with a 200 gig cap. Sure, I could upgrade to the next tier up (another $20 a month and 100 mb/s download, 5 mb/s upload), but they won't raise my bandwidth cap at all to match the increased speed. But they would be happy to charge me an extra $10 for every 50 gigs I exceed my current cap. It's a combination of their higher tier services costing too much for people to care to upgrade, bandwidth caps that don't scale with the increased speed and a miserable upload comparison.