Topic: EA: No More Offline Singleplayer

[Xessive]

EA Proudly Refuses to Publish Singleplayer Games

Looks like Ubi and EA are neck-to-neck for title of worst game publisher / biggest douche.

They're not refusing singleplayer per se, just singleplayer with no online features at all. I suppose a singleplayer game with online leaderboards is still ok based on Gibeau's statement.

[idolminds]

Gotta have people connected! Somehow this makes games better!

Ok well if we get more D*Souls notes and bloodstains in games then I'd be all for it. Sadly it wont be anything that cool.

[Xessive]

Gotta have people connected! Somehow this makes games better!

Ok well if we get more D*Souls notes and bloodstains in games then I'd be all for it. Sadly it wont be anything that cool.

It almost never is. Damn it. Even the Dragon's Dogma online feature of recruiting other players' pawns would be alright.

[Quemaqua]

Fuck em. There are so many good games, it doesn't even matter to me anymore when I write a publisher off my list. Even if I had nothing else to do and just played games all day, it still wouldn't matter. Just too many games now.

[MysterD]

Why the fuck does every game need a multiplayer component?
[shakes my head]

[nickclone]

Fuck em. There are so many good games, it doesn't even matter to me anymore when I write a publisher off my list. Even if I had nothing else to do and just played games all day, it still wouldn't matter. Just too many games now.

I'm with you, but I think that comes with age.

[Cools!]

Must be able to compare achievements of course!

[MysterD]

Gotta have people connected! Somehow this makes games better!

Ok well if we get more D*Souls notes and bloodstains in games then I'd be all for it. Sadly it wont be anything that cool.

Does EA really think pirates will stop pirating their stuff and actually buy games b/c some sort of MP and/or online function will make them pony-up the $ for it?
[perplexed]

[Pugnate]

"What I said was [about not greenlighting] anything that [doesn't have] an online service. You can have a very deep single-player game but it has to have an ongoing content plan for keeping customers engaged beyond what's on the initial disc. I'm not saying deathmatch must come to Mirror's Edge."

He added that games are to be thought of as services now, and went on to say that you, "need to have a social experience where you're part of a large community."

Not sure why this is a big deal because this already seems to be happening.

I am no sure what sort of PR monkey let him say the initial stuff. He should have known the internet's ability to turn anything into a shitstorm. I think traditional singleplayer games will continue, but will have some sort of online or social aspect.

[Xessive]

This seems to have started with EA from way back. Take for example Mirror's Edge, it's purely singleplayer but it has leaderboards and time attack modes. I gues sthe primary fear from gamers is now we'll have singleplayer games with tacked-on multiplayer just because it's a requirement.

One good example of that is Spec Ops: The Line, even the developers, Yager, hated the idea and they declined to do it, so 2K hired a different studio, Darkside Game Studio (ironic name), to make a generic multiplayer mode that nobody is playing.

I feel that resources should go into funding a complete and satisfying singleplayer experience rather than risk cutting anything from it for a subpar multipayer feature.

If "achievements" count as an "online feature" then I'm not worried about EA's decision. Devs can easily slap those on to any singleplayer experience.

[Cobra951]

Here is a worse example.  Driver San Francisco has a movie-maker feature, but to use it you must go online.  Not go online to download the feature as DLC, but simply to use it.  They force you online not because it makes any sense, technically or otherwise, but simply because they can.

[Xessive]

Here is a worse example.  Driver San Francisco has a movie-maker feature, but to use it you must go online.  Not go online to download the feature as DLC, but simply to use it.  They force you online not because it makes any sense, technically or otherwise, but simply because they can.

Haha that is retarded! That's Ubisoft, the people who brought us Assassin's Creed II with the requirement to be online at all times to do anything other than click QUIT. Fortunately as mentioned in the other thread Ubi have finally agreed to cancel that asinine idea. Instead they'll try to develop different asinine ideas.