Editorial: Gaming, Skyrim, And The Digital Have-Nots (Game Informer)
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a longtime Game Informer reader
asking about Skyrim. Usually, when I receive such emails from readers, they
are asking me my opinion on a game – or complaining that I scored a certain
game too low or too high. In this case, the reader was already sold on Skyrim.
However, there was a problem. The reader lived in the South, in a remote area
where he did not have access to broadband Internet service. He told me that he
misses out on a lot of what makes up the experience of being a gamer in 2011.
Given his lack of broadband access, multiplayer and DLC is out of the question
- unless the DLC later comes packaged on disc (he cited his past purchases of
games like Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Collection and the Game of
the Year Editions of Oblivion and Fallout 2, which both included past DLC on
disc).
As a PS3 owner, he’d read about the myriad bugs and technical issues that have
plagued that version of Skyrim. Obviously, with no broadband, it’s not
possible for him to download any of …
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