Petition for Offline Solo..

[buckiesmalls]

This is one of the most baffling decision to require a constant online connection for single player.. There is only an upside for them if enabling it.. Specially when I have 45 minutes of "playtime" just looking at the first sequence of things. I have controlled my character for about 10 seconds.. Fine you servers are trash.. Not my our fault. Enable Offline play for solo and local saving.. Shouldn't be too hard.. Seeing how they have spent 50 plus hours "fixing" servers..

[Dicleon]

+1 just got disconnected again.

[Dim]

Square Enix not gonna add offline mode, even with 1 trillion petitions. And yes SE is the boss, not PCF.

[NormireX]

Nux Vomic님이 먼저 게시:

Square Enix not gonna add offline mode, even with 1 trillion petitions. And yes SE is the boss, not PCF.

You don't know that bud. Show proof if you are going to make claims.

[Darkside99x]

NormireX님이 먼저 게시:

Nux Vomic님이 먼저 게시:

Square Enix not gonna add offline mode, even with 1 trillion petitions. And yes SE is the boss, not PCF.

You don't know that bud. Show proof if you are going to make claims.

I mean, if you had paid any attention to anything they have done in the last few years you would not require further proof.

[NormireX]

Darkside99x님이 먼저 게시:

NormireX님이 먼저 게시:

You don't know that bud. Show proof if you are going to make claims.

I mean, if you had paid any attention to anything they have done in the last few years you would not require further proof.

Short of them coming out and directly stating they will not do it then nothing else is solid proof. Some people probably thought the same about Inquisitor Martyr before the devs came out and said they were going to make an offline mode. So don't count your chickens before they hatch there bub.

[Scrumbles]

NormireX님이 먼저 게시:

Darkside99x님이 먼저 게시:

I mean, if you had paid any attention to anything they have done in the last few years you would not require further proof.

Short of them coming out and directly stating they will not do it then nothing else is solid proof. Some people probably thought the same about Inquisitor Martyr before the devs came out and said they were going to make an offline mode. So don't count your chickens before they hatch there bub.

The studio hasn't apparently received royalties on the game, nor apparently turned a profit.
They're working on 6 other projects at this time, and the game hasn't had an update in about 2 years. At this point they're more focused on other things that turns up more money for them.

The last store news update was back in Dec. 2022 (outside of "announcing" the "complete" edition).

[dEEkAy]

game is dead although it requires constant online connection. pcf is another dev that's a red flag for me.

just forget this mess and move on.

[tankanidis]

dEEkAy님이 먼저 게시:

game is dead although it requires constant online connection. pcf is another dev that's a red flag for me.

just forget this mess and move on.

so i keep hearing that Square screwed PCF on the contract for Outriders and that they didn't make any real money from the deal, which is why it was so abandoned/treated this way all these years

Does anyone have any evidence of this i could go read up on?

Also, it wouldn't change the fact that PCF's name is all over this, so the hatred naturally goes to the developer of the game, not the publisher attached to it

Which means all the negativity at being mis-treated this badly after paying so much for the game is being directed at PCF

They really made a series of wrong decisions if their aim was to get back at Square by tanking the game that players paid full price for with their name on it

[Same Same]

This proof enough for you? https://www.play3.de/2023/06/15/outriders-immer-noch-kein-profit-fuer-die-entwickler/

[Darkside99x]

Same Same님이 먼저 게시:

This proof enough for you? https://www.play3.de/2023/06/15/outriders-immer-noch-kein-profit-fuer-die-entwickler/

Yup that's as SqEnix as it gets.

[tankanidis]

OUCH

" "Furthermore, in accordance with the development and publishing agreement signed on February 16th 2016 between the parent and Square Enix Limited to develop Outriders, since the game was completed and released on April 1st 2021 the Group is entitled to receive consideration in the form of royalties. Their amount is directly linked to and represents a percentage of the profit earned on the sale of the game.

"The Group received no royalties from the publisher for the period to March 31st 2023, which means that as at the reporting date net proceeds from the sale of Outriders were insufficient to recover the costs and expenses incurred by the publisher to develop, distribute and promote the title.""

source:

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/91896/outriders-still-has-not-made-profit-developer-confirms/index.html


PCF got burnt hard by Square Enix making up advertising costs as it saw fit to deny paying them any royalties forever huh?

No wonder why we got a torched abandoned game, they gave up on it before release because they never believed they were going to get a dollar more from Square by working on it

edit: turns out Square Enix put the game on Gamepass and PCF got 0% of the gamepass day 1 deal money, and also since it was on Gamepass, all the players playing it there didn't count towards 'sales' for the contract they had

Square royally screwed them over, and PCF just gave up on the game for it

Players got robbed twice

[Darkside99x]

And if memory serves were the ones that insisted it be a "games as a service" title, which is where most of the games problems have came from in one form or another. They didn't just put a studio to work on a game in bad faith, they crippled their chances of succeeding from the start.

[Same Same]

So stop blaming PCF for all problems :)

[Seacaller]

Online only games suck

[Medojedova zhouba]

Imagine to have problem with being able to be online while playing games. :D 21st century and people still can´t get proper connection. Lets sue Blizzard, for example, for having World of Warcraft as always online game. :D :D :D