Why make games always online?

[Mavrickindigo]

I don't get it. Why make games always online to play single-player? All it does is hurt the legitimate user as pirates are sure to crack the game themselves to be playable offline.

[breadman]

uh what online-only game was cracked? that doesn't happen

[Tibore]

They officially announced that they will remove the always online part. https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1638543995398950912

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Originally posted by breadman:

uh what online-only game was cracked? that doesn't happen

Lol actually a lot

[breadman]

Originally posted by Mr Jt (Gog is king):

Lol actually a lot

name one

and by online-only i mean online-only, not just a game with an online component

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Op because of greed. This game will flop so hard. This is way game like elden ring succeed and games like this fail

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Originally posted by breadman:

Originally posted by Mr Jt (Gog is king):

Lol actually a lot

name one

and by online-only i mean online-only, not just a game with an online component

Just google it. It’s not allowed to talk about it on steam. Plenty of games were. Single player stuff should never have always online stuff in it this only hurts honest customers. I don’t care about games like that anyway

[breadman]

Originally posted by Mr Jt (Gog is king):

Just google it. It’s not allowed to talk about it on steam. Plenty of games were. Single player stuff should never have always online stuff in it this only hurts honest customers. I don’t care about games like that anyway

nice cop out

not a single online-only game has been circumvented except for private servers for mmos

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Not true. Still the piracy argument will never be accurate because piracy is very niche. No drm or something else will prevent from that and it will only hurt you the honest customer.
Like Gaben once said: You have to give customers a better service than the pirates and anti piracy measures aren’t the way to go

[breadman]

Originally posted by Mr Jt (Gog is king):

Not true.

where sauce

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Game gets an offline mode. They are working on it but the cancer denuvo stays i guess

[breadman]

Originally posted by Mr Jt (Gog is king):

Game gets an offline mode. They are working on it but the cancer denuvo stays i guess

still waiting for you to list all those online-only games that can be played offline

[Mavrickindigo]

Originally posted by breadman:

Originally posted by Mr Jt (Gog is king):

Just google it. It’s not allowed to talk about it on steam. Plenty of games were. Single player stuff should never have always online stuff in it this only hurts honest customers. I don’t care about games like that anyway

nice cop out

not a single online-only game has been circumvented except for private servers for mmos

following the rules isn't a copout.

[breadman]

Originally posted by TikTikKobold:

following the rules isn't a copout.

posting a game name isn't against the rules

[Eelectrica]

Back on my wishlist it goes. Obviously not buying until the online requirement is gone though. Not interested in live service BS.

Rememner Anthem, Battleborn, Babylons fall and any number of other games now unplayable forever due to this online only BS. I never fell for those scams obviously, still good to have some reminders of why it's best not to fall into these traps.

[NormireX]

Originally posted by Eelectrica:

Back on my wishlist it goes. Obviously not buying until the online requirement is gone though. Not interested in live service BS.

Rememner Anthem, Battleborn, Babylons fall and any number of other games now unplayable forever due to this online only BS. I never fell for those scams obviously, still good to have some reminders of why it's best not to fall into these traps.

Yup, Darkspore can be thrown on that list and soon Godfall will join them. Time for gamers to stand up as we want to have some ownership of the games we pay for so we can play anytime we want. A few years ago I reinstalled Darkspore hoping to jump in for nostalgia not realizing it was online only even on single player.