[quote]Would a 24 hour check in really have harmed your gaming experience?[/quote]The problem here is it's a restriction. And gamers hate any sort of restriction on their ability to play their games. They'll go well out of their way to pay for overpriced DLC and pre-order games they've never played and will spend thousands of dollars on PC equipment to get a higher frame rate in a game that will be dated in a few months... but something like this sounds too much like "they're trying to take our games away!" which I guess is the same kind "they're trying to take our guns away!" paranoia some people feel every time they hear a Democrat is elected to city council. I think there's some benefits to having a system like a 24-hour check-in, but those benefits have to outweigh the fact that single-player games now have this arbitrary Internet-connection requirement weighing them down. Beyond more dynamic multiplayer experiences, it would be nice if such a system brought better security, and would reduce the incentive for hacking into my account to buy and download some games the thief can play offline. But such a system can't be like what Microsoft did last year where they basically just said, "It'll be a better experience, but we won't give you all the details right now, you just have to trust us." Also... we need better Internet infrastructure in America before such a thing like constantly-connected gaming even becomes feasible. These crooked telecommunications companies are bottlenecking the Internet because it threatens the status quo where everybody buys a bundle with 500 channels they don't want for $100 per month and never complain about it because they can't switch to any alternatives.