Once again, I agree with that Logan dude, same as last time.

Obviously, single player games should always be playable offline. If they're not, I don't buy them. Couldn't be any simpler than that.

I get that somebody has to play the patsy for this form to work, devil's advocate and all that like he says at the start, but it seriously still makes ( Read more... )

Via this Slashdot link.

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Okay, then. Does that mean you're going to remove the asinine online only requirement, Blizzard?

No?

Well, never mind, because I still don't give a shit about your shitty game.

I've recently had an excuse to go back and look through my anti-"online only" rants (most of which seem to be about Diablo III). I reread those old rants from oldest to newest, noting how increasingly frantic they tended to get, and then I look at the general state of the video game industry as it is today, now, and I can only shake my head sadly ( Read more... )

I really, really hope (futilely, most likely) that this just might potentially be the beginning of the end for this asinine anti-singleplayer trend that has been cropping up over the past year or two. (And, yes, that's a new LJ tag and, yes, I've gone back and tagged all of the similarly themed posts/rants that I've made in the past with that tag ( Read more... )

And yet another developer jumps on this asinine bandwagon.

"CEO Ted Price said the industry has evolved to a point where multiplayer-only and social games are the new norm."

They're only the "new norm" because you stupid fuckers are trying to force it down the throats of the rest of us! ARGH! Every single game does not need to be online/ ( Read more... )

Yep, and that, right there, is yet another reason in a very, very long list of reasons why EA sucks so damn much. I think that pretty much speaks for itself, so that's all I have to say about that.

On another topic semi-related to the above, however, it appears that Ubisoft just might be coming to their senses finally.[1] Given that Ubisoft was ( Read more... )

Pretty much, yeah. Once again, Cracked.com cuts through the BS and tells it like it is.

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Ostensibly, this is a review of the new Syndicate game (a game in which I have exactly zero interest, personally), but more than that it's an article about why it's kind of a bad idea to split resources between singleplayer and multiplayer components in the same game. Generally speaking, I agree with the guy. I'd rather have a game that is 100% ( Read more... )

But... but... but I thought if you were one of those uber-nerds with perfect Internet you would never have to worry about crap like this! What's going on here?! How is this possible?!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!

(Why yes, I am indeed implying that Blizzard's always online DRM will be at least as bad as Ubisoft's always online DRM has proven to be.)