this game is going to fail like Halo Infinite.No one should be surprised about this.
Will be interesting to see what schemes Microsoft comes up with next to monetize Gamepass.
Weren’t they just talking about how this game provided a full single player experience?
To those defending anti-consumer practices :
I hope you enjoy backing yourselves up to that gigantic corporate cock that's getting buried deeper and deeper into the depths of your ass as time goes on.
To those defending anti-consumer practices :
I hope you enjoy backing yourselves up to that gigantic corporate cock that's getting buried deeper and deeper into the depths of your ass as time goes on.
80s games > 90s gamesThat's why games in the 90's and early 2000's were the best. Games were designed to be products and not services.
No microtransactions, no battle passes, no loot boxes, no psychological exploitation, no fomo, no traps, no political and ulterior agendas, no woke, none of that shit.
Gaming was for nerds by nerds fuelled by enthusiasm and potential. Then the corporate business people seeded it with dark motives and made it a casino and gaming lost its way.
OT. Your profile pic is ..... NiceThat’s not really the issue though. The issue stems from not being able to play a single player mode when the servers are inevitably turned off, despite having paid for the privilege of playing the game.
It’s about game preservation and being able to revisit titles later down the line.
This is happening to The Avengers and even though it isn’t a good game, it sucks for people who want to revisit it in the future or who are still playing it in single player mode. The game isn’t even 3 years old.
I would assume so. From the preview, it wasn't really clear to me, but I expect we will run into other people; in fact, there was one part in the preview that I think kind of suggested that (where you see the floating person with a white robe on).So are there people in your game world whether you co-op or not?
Like is it an MMO-lite like Destiny where you are on a server with a few people and there are "public events" and whatnot?
Oh snap! lol He likely won't respond or will just block you (he likes his echo chamber and all).This you?
It's like shooting shills in a barrel.
I'm thinking this has to do with keeping people from duping items and keeping things fair when playing online. Choosing to play solo is a choice but I don't think it something that can be completely disabled because there is always the potential for a player to go online and play with people later. GT7 requiring online connectivity even when playing solo doesn't change the fact that you COULD go online and play with others online another time. Same is true of Redfall. Overall this isn't a big deal. This is the internet age people. More and more games are digital and have online connectivity. If you dislike that you might have to stick to older games that came out before the internet was a thing.Any game that can be played SP should be able to operate offline. Regardless of the platform, subscriptions aside.
Anyone saying anything else in this thread is coming off like a fucking clown.
Some of these people are the same people I see championing accessibility options for controllers and games...which makes it much fucking worse.
Have some god damn respect for yourselves and stop trying to defend your platform of choice for once.
Not really an issue for me as I have had always on internet since 1997. Are there many nowadays that don't have it? Just seems like a non-issue.
says internet required on the box. what that actually means? who the fuck knows
100% expect Starfield to be the same.
That’s not the same thing at all lol
Always online isn't the issue. Maybe someone would still like to play the game that has replay value 10 years from now when they shut the servers down. It would be like Unreal Tournament and Quake Arena or Left for Dead bot play no longer working if they relied on hosted servers that no longer exist from the publisher.
sarcasm is the lowest form of wit ....you know that, right? get over yourself, fella. We all love video games here...but they are just that...games. take the day off the internet or something.Yep. Me right now concerned about the preservation future of a game I didn't even knew existed until this Thread:
Rick"BigBrain"Masters.
Outside of forum and Twitter warriors. You have to be online to play Game Pass already and since I hear no one is going to buy this game because it's on Game Pass, what's the problem?
People liking furries is no different to liking Avatar as well, they are blue and have tails, I don't see the difference.
Far in the future this will be the norm. We'll be banging aliens like in Mass Effect and genetically engineered hybrids.
A combination of things to include what you mentioned but more importantly what if THIER servers go down? Do you think its fair after paying for your console, the online sub service, the game and your internet that thier servers can shutdown for maintenance or literally any other reason and you cant play your game on single player offline? I used to be like you, then realized after haveing a day off with no kiddos for the afternoon, went to sink in and boot up GT7 for some old school gaming fun in single player and bam! A big fuck you from Polyphony Digital. Never again.What's the bigger problem? This antiquated notion of "owning" games that simply does not exist anymore?
no u dont, google is ur friend
Outside of forum and Twitter warriors. You have to be online to play Game Pass already and since I hear no one is going to buy this game because it's on Game Pass, what's the problem?
Same clowns defending this can't even see these games servers go down for hours or days and you can't even play it. Or when they decide to shut the servers off permanently.
What if the game is a flop and barely any players. Bye-bye servers.
It is what it is. Obviously the real downside is there will come a day (likely many years from now) when the game no longer works which is sad. I don't really understand the need for persistent connections in single player, even for cheating purposes I don't get it. Just make the achievements and any kind of leader-boards only function with an online mode, but leave an offline mode in the mix. We will lose a lot of games to this eventually, and the publishers will lose sales of old games too (sales they literally do nothing for).
Doesn't effect me at all (or anyone really, please, who doesn't have a internet connection available on their console in this day and age), so, I'm still pumped for the game.
There will never be a day where it doesn't work. They'll just release a patch to allow offline play. And players will still be able to match up with one another thanks to dynamic server allocations.
Its unbelievable how many poeple DO NOT get this simple concept, even in this thread. Im so tired of reading the same stupid argument "ur durrr you dont have internet in 2023???!!!111" even worse when people refuse to acknowledge the issues for some dumb console wars reasons. ITS SHIT that it is happening with this game and IT WAS SHIT when it happened with GT7 too, dumb fucks.The problem whit this is not that you have internet connection, it's relative safe to assume that almost all people that own one of the three consoles have stable internet connection nowadays, the problem is that the servers can be down or heck they even shut down the servers and then it doesn't work to play it at all.
You can have 100000 mbps internet, it won't matter if you don't have a server to connect to and when that happens the game will die, even its single player component. Fuck that.Yep, it's 2023 people. Even your toaster is online.
The same company that just laid of 10k employees, oh you're hero corporation saving the day.Good thing Microsoft is a leading server company and even old ass games still have their multiplayer supported thanks to dynamic server allocations.
Oh, and also, then Arkane, Bethesda and Microsoft would just release a patch for it. The End. Offline mode supported with no internet in the event the game is a mega flop and servers are shut down. (not happening)
Digital games I buy all can be transferred. I deliberately do not buy games that act otherwise.It’s already like that for games you buy digitally. Even physical games require servers now days to download the game.
Also, this is a GAAS game, this might be a way to prevent cheaters.
Maybe, but if it is a trivial correction, why release it like that in the first place? A lot of the times these systems are so deeply woven into the software that it just isn't worth the effort when the time comes (the suits just figure no one was interested in the software anymore anyways). Doesn't effect the quality of the game at all, and would certainly be a really stupid reason to avoid it, to be sure, but I would still prefer single player games just didn't do this.
Hitman III is a good example of a game I might come back to in a decade and find it gone, when I've played the originals after they were already older than that. Again, not a reason to hate on it, but unfortunate just the same.
How many games have lost server access and are now not playable, or loose dlc access or online. There are tons. Having single player tied to always online is the problem.Potential
Eventually
Would
Grasping at straws here.
Also, games are “an investment” now?
Could be DRM purposes, could be tied to how the game is designed. They mention something about the Vampire Gods not liking when you take out specific vampires and can dynamically target you? Something also about storms beginning when Vampire Gods are close? Maybe they're doing something server related along with changing the game world, and they need to be able to track when to trigger some change to the world? I have no idea what it is really. I'm sure we could find out before May.
The same company that just laid of 10k employees, oh you're hero corporation saving the day.
The truth is you have zero idea if they'll keep the servers open or some magical patch, keep the dream alive phil.
It sucks that it's always online like GT7, but let's hope the game doesn't suck like GT7 too.
Why? Are people not allowed opinions? Are you the arbiter of this? His prefence we all have them. I didn't play halo for years as I thought the green helmet guy was dumb looking. (gasp ) Eventually when it was real cheap on pc I got around to playing it and it was alright, (still don't understand the hype though as I was pc only at that time)I think you should have just said you wanted character customization and left it at that. You are just digging yourself a bigger hole.
I can agree with this. It’s fun pointing out the intellectually dishonest warriors tho.
Outside of forum and Twitter warriors. You have to be online to play Game Pass already and since I hear no one is going to buy this game because it's on Game Pass, what's the problem?
Blows my mind seeing people defend this shit lol
Why? Are people not allowed opinions? Are you the arbiter of this? His prefence we all have them. I didn't play halo for years as I thought the green helmet guy was dumb looking. (gasp ) Eventually when it was real cheap on pc I got around to playing it and it was alright, (still don't understand the hype though as I was pc only at that time)
Why would you be upset about not being able to play a game years after release if it's a flop with barely any players?Same clowns defending this can't even see these games servers go down for hours or days and you can't even play it. Or when they decide to shut the servers off permanently.
What if the game is a flop and barely any players. Bye-bye servers.
let's hope the game doesn't suck like GT7 too.