It’s a invented problem to justify always online DRM.
Of course. And it will just lead to a situation where you will need to pirate a copy to be able to play it offline.
These schemes only give paying customers a worse experience than pirates.
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Folks this could be over, PCI Express Storage is about to finish off Visible Pop-In once and for all! But wait, what’s this? OH MY GOD IT’S TEXTURE STREAMING OVER EXTREMELY SLOW INTERFACES WITH A FOLDING CHAIR!
Before: Upgarde ur foking SSD
Now: Upgrade ur foking internet
Deeply unserious game franchise
Except it’s also somehow the most successful.
Not surprising, it’s like the mcu, they don’t have any new ideas or even good old ideas but they just have to keep shoveling the shit out because it’s profitable.
I think saying they “have to” is absolving them of a little more than I would.
This also of course means you can no longer play the game after they take down their servers.
Then the team preserving a private server gets hit with a cease and desist
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The smug sensation i get knowing cod games are bad and not fun anyway
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Indie games win again
I’m still playing Terraria
Dead Cells player saying hello!
Our final last update for real this time is coming any moment now
AAA studios have invested higher and higher budgets to seek larger and larger audiences to deliver lower and lower quality products.
Indies don’t have the same budget problems, so a smaller investment can still be successful with a smaller audience. That’s why Indies are killing it these days.
it’s not even about larger audiences anymore no one introduces 4k texture streaming into their game to reach a bigger audience. it’s about milking their already existing fanbase with a new price tag, and a new slew of predatory microtransactions.
Yes, that adds a compounding factor. Instead of efficiency, they try to sell the largest package and milk as much as they can.
Why the fuck do there need to be so many call of duty games when they’ve been the fucking same for a decade now
Because the playerbase moves to the latest game on release and the multiplayer of the older games stops being fun because it’s exclusively tryhards.
They’ve made them for years, amd now with recruiting at it’s lowest level in years, they certainly aren’t going to stop now.
They discovered the magic of free live service games, so they’re continuing to update Warzone which takes in billions (I think), and use the profits to create a single player campaign and a short lived paid multiplayer mode that will take in an additional billion while funneling those players back to Warzone, which is their bread and butter., once the latest COD fad dies down within 6 months
Oh no I was really looking forward to call of duty (and this is true) number 21
what will I do now
To be fair, the game currently advertised as GTA VI will actually be GTA XV
Texture steaming you’ve gotta be shitting me
In a socialist society I could maybe almost make a case for this not being a completely stupid and terrible idea
In the world we live in however, Cox Cable limits my fucking downloads each month and there’s no way in hell I’m hitting my data cap to stream CoD textures that could’ve just been on my system the first time
When the fuck did that switch happen btw? When I was a youth I remember having strict data caps on mobile data but wired internet to your house didn’t have limits because that’s not how the infrastructure works and limits make no sense. Now it’s the opposite, I get close to my data cap for my home every month but only the absolute bare minimum cheapest phone plans have caps.
In a socialist society everyone would be playing open source TF2 and Minecraft on community run servers until the sun explodes.
What a world!
Which society is nothing but open source Quake 3 CPMA clones? Let’s do that one.
Edit: Would that be some sort of Hoxhaism but instead of bunkers everyone has their own personal Quake 3 fork?
This is one of those things that they will continue to get away with because people will continue to buy it literally no matter what they do. I don’t think individual actions in “I won’t buy this” matter systemically but when it comes to stuff like this it definitely does matter.
A personal decision like that will never matter. Only organized collective action could make a difference
What if the player has a bad internet connection? Will the textures be blurry? Idiotism of biblical proportions.
i mean sure if you don’t want any customer outside of dense urban areas from rich countries just make your game constantly download 4k textures. also when did Activision hit black ops 6? i always think black ops 3 was just released yesterday.
I knew 4 existed, but I can’t for the life of me remember 5 ever even being announced
