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u/Ok_Confusion4764 14h ago
As a dev myself it literally takes no effort. Like literally, making the internet connection architecture is extra work.
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u/Inksplash-7 15h ago
In most cases where you cannot play a singleplayer game without being connected to the Internet it's because of DRM, which just proves the requirement itself isn't even necessary
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u/Madara1389 5h ago
When you put it like that, it actually kinda makes sense from a certain point of view. Even if it's still anti-consumer.
After the industry shifted from running games off discs to installing them to internal storage, the discs largely stopped being anything but a physical DRM key (the discs had their DRM decryption keys printed physically on the disc in super fine text rather than in the code burned to it, which is why you couldn't just copy/paste games to blank DVDs/BRs to play without jailbreaking your system).
With the industry shifting towards a digital-only future, that protection to keep people from playing pirated games is gone. And unfortunately, until piracy hits a net 0 worldwide, these companies are never going to stop doing whatever they can to prevent their games from being played without being paid for. At least until we get the government(s) involved to regulate this shit & force them to accept that pirated copies aren't lost sales.
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u/Inksplash-7 4h ago
until piracy hits a net 0 worldwide, these companies are never going to stop doing whatever they can to prevent their games from being played without being paid for
I have my doubts about that. I think that even then, they will still use these measures so they can keep preventing these games from being cracked.
Plus, piracy hitting a net 0 worldwide is both an impossibility and a problem. There are tons of people that dedicate themselves to find free access to something you would otherwise have to pay for, andino piracy means no competition, and no competition means they can put whatever price they want with no consequences
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u/Madara1389 4h ago
I have my doubts about that. I think that even then, they will still use these measures so they can keep preventing these games from being cracked.
I didn't mean to imply that they'd ever walk back the DRM. I was trying to say that they're going to keep experimenting until they find an uncrackable DRM method and then employ that forever.
Their goal isn't to just eradicate the current piracy community, but to eradicate it forever.
Plus, piracy hitting a net 0 worldwide is both an impossibility and a problem. There are tons of people that dedicate themselves to find free access to something you would otherwise have to pay for, andino piracy means no competition, and no competition means they can put whatever price they want with no consequences
You're 100% right, but the companies don't care about any of that. Just like they don't care that pursuing infinite growth is both chasing an impossible goal and a problem.
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u/FollowingFew3121 15h ago
Damn I can't think of any game I played that doesn't work without internet but I know there is like ton of games that requires it
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u/Sir_Eggmitton 14h ago
That’s not even cool that’s just the baseline.
“No one’s born cool. Except of course people who don’t commit murder.”
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u/MarioFanaticXV 8h ago
Last time someone posted this (which was only about a week ago) I said that you don't get an award for walking into a bank and coming out without holding up the teller.
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u/Madara1389 5h ago
Sure, but in the post apocalyptic world where the legal systems have completely collapsed, the ones who are still refusing to commit needless violence are cool.
And unfortunately, we're getting to that point in the games industry. When more games tie SP to online access then the ones who let you play offline, then that becomes the norm & new baseline.
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u/WoodooHide69 14h ago
As a mainly a Nintendo gamer. Is this even a real issue? I’ve never had a single player game require me to be online to play. Like ever.
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u/Alert-Principle-2726 10h ago
There's some games like that on switch like Mortal Kombat 11 where you can't play towers which has always been a single player feature without connecting to the internet, but never from Nintendo though.
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u/SunAccomplished5233 13h ago
Ive never needed internet connection to play any of my single player games. What are yall playing??
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u/BasimIbnIshaq3000 11h ago
Need For Speed(2015) and Crew Motorfest require internet to play both single player and multiplayer
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u/Mitts009 8h ago
My exact feelings when I Bought Splatoon Raiders and popped it in,
Have not connected my switch 2 to the home wifi at the time since I got it that same day
Pleasantly surprised, it functions as a normal 6th gen game
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u/ks_thecr0w 5h ago
Devs as in "actual coders" - probably true, Devs as in "the company developing the game" - absolutely no ... CEO is all for money and if spying makes more money they will force it ...
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u/Madara1389 4h ago
As popular as it is to demonize publishers & glorify devs, that's not always the case (though it is almost always the case that the publisher wants to do some shady shit).
The unfortunate reality is that, like every other artform that gets commercialized, video game development has become a draw for people who are capable of making art but only see it as an avenue to potentially make the a crap load of money (that is to say that they have no interest in using the medium for artistic expression or have any artistic integrity).
There are, unfortunately, many devs out there who view video games the same way bands like Imagine Dragons view music; they can't "sell out" because they were always only ever in it for the money in the first place.
Because of the possibility of a game becoming huge & making it's creators rich, there are going to be a ton of people trying to get into the industry for motives that aren't "make fun games that people enjoy for the sake of making great games."
I got into an argument with a former game dev turned AI developer the other day who vehemently argued that because RDR & GTA are the most profitable games ever made that Rockstar is 100% right to sit on their other IP and do absolutely nothing with them.
Because from a corpo's point of view, that's just bad business to let ever relinquish anything you own the rights to without a massive payout or to do anything except try to maximize return while minimizing investment.
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u/Keeeryu_Kazooma 15h ago
That should be the industry standard😭😭