Some PC buyers of the long awaited PC port of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance panicked when they found out the game crashed when it wasn’t connected to the internet, leading some to assume that the game had an always-online DRM policy, like Diablo III or SimCity. However, Platinum Games got on their Twitter account and said:
Also, for the irresponsible press who decided to publish articles saying we have Always On DRM… No, we do not. We did not. We will not.
— JP Kellams (@PG_jp) January 10, 2014
When asked why the game crashed when there was no internet connection (especially since the game doesn’t really need an internet connection, other than maybe leaderboards), Platinum again responded with:
@Sumea7 A bug. That we will fix.
— JP Kellams (@PG_jp) January 10, 2014
Later on, Platinum said that offline play is now fixed. So for someone like me, this is great news. I’ve been excited to play the PC version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. I’m glad this was just a bug and not a DRM scheme by Konami.
