You don't have to use Social Club unless you plan on Multiplayer action.
Also cancelling your Social Club account does not kill off your games, your games will still work just no online stuff.
That is what I thought at first until I clicked on an information link on Rockstar's Social Club website help pages. It sure seemed rediculas that they put it that way since they claimed you don't really have to register or participate to play the game but you HAVE To have it installed.
A perfect example is the fact that every time I try to launch and play Max Payne 3 SINGLEPLAYER it forces me to log into Social Club!!!! And that is a cold hard fact... It absolutely WILL NOT let me launch and play the singleplayer game without logging in to Social Club..
That is my experience. Not just my opinion on RS's Social Club.
If there really is a way to play Max Payne 3 without logging into Social Club. PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DO IT!!!!
Thanks!
I guess I do not see what the big deal is here. I have spent plenty of hours playing the game, and have not spent any time interacting in the Social Club. If it is simply a manner of frustration with DRM, then this is not the most invasive form by any means.
No. It's not the most invasive of DRM out there but it is bloody annoying to have to log into programs you don't even use or participate in to play a game. The fact that they make installing it mandatory even if you won't be using it past activating your game, and then threaten to kill your game, or games, if you "unsubscribe" from it or uninstall it is what is really agrivating about it.
During my research I found out they changed some things for singleplayer a while back so you can play the singleplayer game mode without logging into the main club. But the Social Club program still runs in the background. Even if you did not log into it. The older information I had read still required you to log in even for singleplayer gaming. Now logging just allows Social Club to track of your gameplay progress, achievements, singleplayer and multiplayer stats, and any crew or friend affiliations so you can share them with other members if you want to. I have no interest in this personally but others do.
By the way.. This was not supposed to be a rant or rave. It was just supposed to answer the question someone had about having to install and keep RS's Social Club program to play their games. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Thanks for the feedback though.
[Edited by LudicrusLeon, 12/26/2012 12:45:08 PM]