NBA 2K25 is being delisted later this month, servers (including single-player story mode) shut down at the end of the year

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• 0li0li@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you get online-only games, then it should not be a surprise to you. I think this bullshit fucking sucks, but the solution if pretty simple: do not give them money to rent games. Encourage indie devs and ignore big studios pulling this crap.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This game isn’t online-only, but a mode that ought to work offline is arbitrarily tied to a premium currency that is affected by the server shutdown. Plus, the kind of person looking to play NBA2k is looking for a basketball game, not just any video game, indie or otherwise. There are no more basketball competitors, even though the NBA is one of the leagues without an exclusivity license.

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t see why they can’t move to the train simulator model.

      You get a new executable every year with updates, for free - but you need to pay for the Teams(trains)/players.

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• ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why would a single player game need a server?

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because fuck you, that’s why.

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    • ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ahh, they got the PopCopy customer service orientation then

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh man can I give out to you about IOI and their incredible hitman game tgat requires internet to log progress!? As in unlock weapons and score yoyr performance.

    Fuck IOI, I wont pay for Bond but I will play an offline copy.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For what it’s worth, the stuff gated behind the online requirement for Bond was far less of the main event than it was in Hitman. But that stuff still really bugs me, too.

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• MantisToboggon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dick move.

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• BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  whats the point of this? too cheap to even keep single player around? fucking madden 17 from a decade ago still has its single player story mode

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i think it’s usually licensing issues, especially music.

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• Malix@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  PGA Tour 2k[somethingoranother] got the same treatment, afaik. Once the servers went down the “campaign” AFAIK became unavailable. I believe some quickplay with stock characters is still available but even in that case the game would be a shell of it’s former self.

  Shame really, me and my buddy liked the private versus matches occasionally. Won’t be buying a single 2k game - not that I have been purchasing any of them intentionally, gotten all of them as part of various humblebundle’s.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  they might as well just cut to the chase and turn 2k into a subscription service.

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• toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i remember buying wwe 2k19, and being hit with a loading screen everytime you click something. haven’t bought a 2k game since

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