hornet3d posted at 8:58AM Mon, 23 December 2019 - #4374160

SeanMartin posted at 10:55AM Mon, 23 December 2019 - #4374152

Out of curiosity, will we ever be able to open this program without it calling home? The server blip was a minor inconvenience, but if it went seriously down, I imagine a lot of people would be pretty upset with things.

It looks as though the feature is here to stay according to the comments coming out of Rendo. Server blips are just one of the problems of this sort of protection as is all the grief that has caused by the change of ownership, all of which was predicted by many users when SM sneaked the feature into Game Dev.

So is the update issued on December 2 still a .2xx build? I think I heard it mentioned that this was a .3 build. Is it too much to hope that the phone-home thing has been taken out? Jenn? Anyone? Honestly, you folks have to know how annoying it is to the user base, so why are you keeping it in there?

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