gangsta_red
Microsoft said the same thing with the xbone. It is always online and requires a kinect to be on, no exceptions, there is nothing you can do about it # dealwithit. Until everyone pre-ordered the PS4 instead. I guess after that there is something we CAN do, just don't buy it. If all three do it don't upgrade and keep your PS4 XB1 etc. Now I know that won't happen because gamers have almost zero self control, but it is in the consumers hands if we...
Damn millennials ruined everything. They killed music, killed high quality movies (Blu-ray is higher bit rate and quality than highly compressed streaming), now they set their crosshairs on games too. They seem to think you need to be online for everything, they probably don't even take a piss with out logging on first.
Not everyone has uber stellar internet connections like you either. Many have data caps, many have less than top end speeds, hell some don't even have internet. As next gen get bigger with 4K content I don't want to wait days for a 100+ GB game to download. HDD or console failure and you need to re-download TB s of games?
Also not everyone likes to just rent either.
@XtaZ
Why should I have to through the hassle to go online "check in" with someone else just to use games I bought? You think that is good? It is like having to ask your mommy before playing a game, I guess you are used to that.
And of course when the corporations finally kill off physical games I am sure they aren't going to act like greedy bastards and raise subscription fees, raise prices of downloadable games, make them time out after awhile... No they wouldn't do that knowing that there is no where else you can get the games from but them. Sure and if anyone truly believes that they are really dumb.
That is a dumb comment and the result is WAY different. If I have the disc I can use anywhere on any console at any time and not have to go online to ask some overlord's permission. I can sell it, lend it, keep it, knowing it will still work in 10 years as a "retro game" even if the console I originally bought it for is broken and replaced. With the disc I control when and where I play it, with online the publisher decides for me.
Even if it was good, is everyone okay with a rent only own nothing model? I know that is publisher's dream but not mine.
Digital download meh. Too cheap to include disks?
I didn't know the heart and soul of bioware was online multiplayer. Everything I played from them was SP.
Don't like online only multiplayer only so no.
Only if people are dumb enough to support the practice by buying them. MS tried that and being the control freaks they are wanted always online more than anything. Then pre orders for Xbone tanked and PS4 soared. They reversed course so fast they got whiplash. If no one buys the online only console they won't make them.
Digital download =DRM. DRM is just a way to take control away from the user and hand it to the corporation. Would you really trust someone like EA or Ubisoft with your entire game library?
LOL go back to a book, why not just play an older console or PC game that doesn't require an internet connection?
Or just go PC and get games hacked to be played offline. That is what I will do if they pull this online only crap.
And when they just decide to pull a game or shut down server support you lose it. They keep your money, you lose the game. That sounds like a terrible deal to me, I don't understand why so many are for it.
I can see the brainwashing is complete. "we will take control of your game library and you will like it!" Duh, ok.
@darthv72
The point you and so many like you don't seem to get is that not everyone likes playing online with other people. Sometimes many of us just like to play offline at out own pace and privacy.
Having an online OPTION is much different than having online be a REQUIREMENT.
If playing a single player game there is no good reason to force players to be connected other than for big corporations to monitor you and try to sell you ...
Except not everyone likes playing with other people online, why should we be forced to if we don't like it? It makes no sense.
The Order. The setting was good and concept was good it just needed to be more fleshed out.
That is fine as an OPTION. When that becomes the only way to get content no thanks. Not everyone wants to rent only or have a hundred different services to have to pay for.