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EA: This is the last year for offline-only games

Nitrous2O · 2008-10-15 05:50:41

http://biz.yahoo.com/paidcontent/081014/1_328572_id.html?.v=1 It's definitely interesting and an indication of the direction the industry is headed. It's sort of bittersweet for me. On one hand, it's not unexpected at all, so meh. However, on the other hand, I will certainly fondly remember the days of buying games when they felt more like a product that you purchased and owned (not the ip of course). These 'products' and the media they were purchased on were by far more under control of the user themselves without required permissions from a theoretical 'higher-power' (server authorizations for example) and connection dependencies before they could be used.Btw, I'm assuming by 'offline-only' he means all games will come with authorization-required DRM, in addition to possible in-game ads....not that all games will have an online multiplayer component, in case anyone is worried about what it means for single-player gaming. Oh well, console gamers can sneer and laugh all you like (of course, there are very, very few that do :P). It's going to be more difficult because of the nature of demographic, however, I feel fairly confident consoles are firmly in the crosshairs and next in line at some point down the road.

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#51 thenewau25

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I don't buy it. They're just trying to look like trend setters. Dragon Age is coming out and that doesn't have online play..crazymaghie123

isnt dragon age an mmo? hmm

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#52 foxhound_fox

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I am never buying a EA PC game ever again. Unfortunately they still offer solid console offerings...

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#53 nutcrackr

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If they go online, then do it properly, restrict the final game files until release.

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#54 IceAxe18

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I think this is a stupid move that EA is making. I love single player games but not really into multiplayer games. Looks like PC gaming is dying after all. sorry to be so blunt, but that makes me frustrated.

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#55 DanielDust

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[QUOTE="crazymaghie123"]I don't buy it. They're just trying to look like trend setters. Dragon Age is coming out and that doesn't have online play..thenewau25

isnt dragon age an mmo? hmm

Umm, no? o_0

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#56 Captain__Tripps

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[QUOTE="crazymaghie123"]I don't buy it. They're just trying to look like trend setters. Dragon Age is coming out and that doesn't have online play..thenewau25

isnt dragon age an mmo? hmm

No. I don't think it has any online at all. It does have a local co-op.

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#57 Makari

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kinda funny i predict that on the next batch of consoles they will have the same problems with piracy as they do now... you can do it for the xbox360, for single player games now, just dont try to go online with it, so their logic is scewed.Lach0121

possibly.. as it is, piracy's still nowhere near as common on the consoles. maybe more people will invest their attention there, or the console makers will get serious about online integration and banning people, which ties in well with this approach. but yeah... seriously, the instant people started complaining about mass effect's drm and talking about boycotting, i called this. six months ago? you've got a smaller hardcore market that doesn't spend as much money as the other hardcore market, piracy's pretty common it, and they collectively kick and scream about any anti-piracy measures. just being heartless counting the $, it'd be pretty simple for someone in their position to simply stop wasting effort on hardcore big-budget PC games, rather than cave to our demands for an unknown result. they're not going to do that, though. games like MMO's and battlefields and CODs and Starcrafts do well and have long legs because of their online community, which has a much harder time being cracked. so.. just make sure there's a major online community. give the legit consumers a valid benefit over pirated copies, right? there's not much else they can do that pirates can't also get, and i've been asking nearly every time someone brings it up. and really, they're being taken somewhat out of context there. there's still going to be SP games, i'm just playing doom-and-gloom in my head a bit.

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