I don’t think requiring online functionality is the death knell of a game in the year 2024. Personally, I’m excited. Their servers were so damn slow to download on initial install and I hated MSFS2020 taking up a quarter of my game drive.
It’s dumb. I’d much rather have a 500GB install. They might as well just make the game a streaming service. It also ensures an early death for the game and no functionality without an internet connection.
SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I 100% disagree. Any game that requires connection to a remote server for single player functionality is dead to me. And any suggestion otherwise I take personal offense to.
This makes your local game dependent on someone else’s server. That someone else, at any time, can shut down that server with zero consequences. They can change the terms of the deal, with zero consequences. Their servers may unintentionally go down or experience other technical issues, depriving you of the product you paid for, with zero consequences. Also you simply cannot use it away from an internet connection.
You are at the mercy of the provider, who has absolutely no legal obligations to you.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Only the installs were slow. Terrain streaming worked just fine right from the start (I played it from day one) - and once it’s cached on your machine, they can shut down the servers all they want, it’s still on your machine.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Only the installs were slow. Terrain streaming worked just fine right from the start
Were you streaming at 180mbps?
and once it’s cached on your machine, they can shut down the servers all they want, it’s still on your machine.
That’s not how cache works.
SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The CDN to download the initial files were slow, the in game streaming was fine.
Yes, ownership sucks these days, but I don’t know how they’d technically pull this off as well without using a remote server. As a philosophy, if we’re purchasing games the only real choice is GoG, anything else ends up with us locked into some server-based licensing system.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
How are you going to fit two petabytes of data into a 500 gigabyte install?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
No one said anything about 2PB.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
That’s how big this game world is.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Where did that number come from?