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The only reason is they wish to be able to control the player - when they discontinue the game's servers, they want the players to not be able to play any more.
by chii 4y ago
The only reason is they wish to be able to control the player - when they discontinue the game's servers, they want the players to not be able to play any more. Obviously, when/if they decide to sell the sequel, the original surely must be stopped from working in order to prevent it as being a competition to sales!
When they decide to sell micro-transactions, they wish to stop players from just cheating it in (even tho it's a single player game).
Do not buy a game like this. It aint worth the money, and there's plenty of indie games that are just as good, if not better.
- chaostheory 4y agoNo. This is yet another flawed attempt to counter piracy. What will happened is that paying customers will start to wonder why they should continue to pay for this garbage instead of reverting to piracy
- Gigachad 4y agoThis reminds me of the disastrous SimCity release which required a constant connection but had servers so bad you’d get kicked out regularly. And you had to sit in a queue waiting for a slot to play your single player game. EA claimed this was necessary as the servers were running complex AI required for the game to run. After a few months the pirate version came out that did full offline play.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoWhich also proved it didn't have jack for AI. But man that would be a trip, wouldn't it? You offload a lot of the simulation part to an AI algo in someone's cloud and it generates its own patterns, people, traffic, weather. Occasionally a little emergent behavior where a random citizen becomes a PITA for your city hall, etc.
- aliqot 4y agoCurious why that AI claim never found its way to court, if true.
- hulitu 4y agoEA is a parody of a company. I will try to avoid them at all costs. Most of the time is spent updating Origin or EA and the game.
- scaredginger 4y agoWe may need some business model innovation here, like when multiplayer games all went free-to-play
- y-curious 4y agoYeah, this is too much. Will only buy if there's a crack to simulate connecting to the server.
- rendaw 4y agoIf you buy when there's a crack you're still rewarding them.
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoI think the trick with modern games is to simply never buy on launch, don’t get too invested, wait till you can get it at a deep discount once all/most of the DLC is out and then consider if you’re happy to play an interactive movie. I just got a bunch of AAA games for AUD $20 in a bundle. A couple I already own. But I’ve played one over the Xmas holidays while staying with family for several late nights. That’s a decent entertainment to $ ratio. I also got Gloomhaven for free on Epic and have sunk quite a few hours in a campaign. Unless gaming is your main hobby there is literally no reason to ever pay full price. And even if it is your main hobby you can stand to wait for at least the first discount.
- marsa 4y agoshit man i bought RDR2 a year ago, and now i can't play it because it needs to be online for entitlement verification. thing is, even when i do connect via phone hotspot that's apparently not online enough for the rockstar games launcher. admittedly i do only get one bar of 4G reception and ~1-2 MB/s download speed max, but that setup worked fine a year ago -- sadly it doesn't any more.