Stupid idea. Really all of this money grubbing trickery is ruining gaming. Pay to win, content held back for day one DLC, microtransactions, always online DRM, Games split into download only episodes are just awful. I know they are tryining to make more money back from their investment but doing things that are all anti-consumer is the wrong way. How about just making good games that work on day one without 8 gigs of patches? Try that and lose the gimmicks.
The trend that is bad with games like this is the online requirement even in SP mode. Microsoft was bashed for always online but now suddenly it is OK in games? Such hypocrisy in the game world.
Always online? Always avoid for me. If we support this UblowSoft will work this into all of their stuff. Do you want Far Cry, assassin's Creed etc to now require to be always online even in SP mode? They will do it if people go along with it (then they can set the games expiration date, spam you with microtransactions etc).
There is no problem being online focused. But REQUIRING online at all times is bad. There should be modes where you don't always need to be online. Destiny has a SP mode but still demands you to be online. Why?
Many don't have good connections, don't like to connect always, or want to subscribe to a service they won't use much. Then what happens when they flip the switch and stop online support for the game? Well your game just stops working leaving you ...
@garos82
No it is not great it is terrible. If they already have it done (which they must if it is day one) Why don't they put it on the fvk!ng disc!!! Why do they require you to run to the internet to patch an incomplete game? It makes no sense. This means everytime you may want to reinstall after deleting for disc space etc you need to keep re-downloading patches, and eventually when they take the patch down you get an unfinished game forever. All of these required...
That is the problem. It is the whole "games as a service" model. You buy an unfinished shell of a game then pay and pay and pay to get the "full experience". No thanks, the game should have flopped hard to make this model of infinite paid DLC crap go away. Unfortunately it sold well so now others may adopt this infinite DLC model.
At least Borderlands had a good long campaign mode to play and you could even be offline and play it. Borderlands was much better.
Just wait until people get bored with PVP and it is a ghost town. You don't even have a good SP campaign to play during slow times and make it worth while. Of course there will be lots of DLC for you to keep buying... Meh.
But Destiny is the epitome of the disgusting turn the industry is taking.
Online only even in SP mode, microtransactions, patches, selling an incomplete game only to "gouge the consumer" with DLC for the "full" experience, paywalls and required subscriptions, the whole "games as a service" model etc.
In the "good old days of gaming" you would buy a game, it would be complete and actually work.
So you basically get an incomplete game with a shallow story but if you want the FULL experience you need to spend another $60 on DLC through the years. It is like this is a demo just to get you to keep buying more content, no thanks.
Probably pay to win. It will be riddled with microtransactions. Of course you could try to fight a heavily armored dragon with the 4" dagger you get for free...
Seriously making this an online only F2P game was a mistake. They should make a full retail release with a full offline mode to reach more buyers.
Sounds like Destiny.
You forget that not everyone with a PS4 was a PS3 owner. Many xbox users defected from MS after they announced all of that DRM crap and have found out how weak the xbone hardware is. Many 360 owners have PS4 now. They never played the UC games. To them it is not a remaster but a whole new game.
@fhizikz
PS now? yeah because playing the games using an expensive service where you don't own the game, where the graphics quality is compressed and there is...
If you like 1080p so much you bought the wrong console. You got the one that struggles to get 1080p the most.
I guess you need to also ask those who bought a movie on VHS tape/DVD and now bought the exact same movie on Blu-ray. It is the same movie just a little crisper and you know how it ends, what is the point? Yes, enhanced visuals.
I am an idiot because I am buying this. Then again I never played it on those last gen antiques.
What is killing gaming is rushed out buggy games, incomplete games rushed out to require gigs of patches later, microtransactions, pay to win, day one DLC, online required DRM, and other anti-consumer practices.
"We used to build games that were pressed on discs, shipped to retailers, bought by consumers and then, in the months and years that followed, we'd support them the best we could"
Now we rush out unfinished crap that requires you to always be online downloading bug fixes and the rest of the game that we didn't include on the disc. This way we can make sure that when the game is no longer supported on our servers, your incomplete buggy game disc is useless a...
The xbone is "amazing" if you care mostly about TV and apps. Most everyone has a bunch of other devices that do media and apps such as phones, tablets, and smart TVs. The whole apps thing will become less and less of a selling point as more and more devices do the same things.
Since the xbone has the worst versions of multiplats with lower resolutions, choppier framerates, crushed blacks, and reduced effects like shadows, AO, etc it has lost the game part of the b...
And Live is required for xbox which is also a subscription service. Those that don't subscribe due to a lack of enough interest in online MP games will not be able to complete Destiny. The devs themselves said you can only get so far, then you will be required eventually to go online and play with others to finish. While not a problem for many, I can see it not being for everyone.
It probably will sell better though with all of the hype for it. That and there is no oth...
Yeah slow LCDs won't cut it for VR. It needs OLED for faster response time and true black levels but that is expensive. The poor black levels of LCDs would be bad for VR too, it would be like you are always looking through a grey haze. Those things together would make many want to puke. At the price point they are going for it will probably have to be LCD, which in that case they would be better off not bothering.