When I heard The Crew was shutting down I immediately started playing the game for the entirety of March until the very last day. I did around 35 offenses (cop chases essentially), and for the first time tried online races! Given I was literally 5 when the game released (I’m 15 now) I’m glad it’s apart of me growing up. Hopefully the guys at The Crew Unlimited get the servers up again!
“It’s dead; you’re not playing this game. They killed it; this was not a natural death. EA pulled the fucking trigger. They will kill again; there’s going to be an entire generation of games no one will ever play again, we’re just getting started guys.” -Ross Scott, 2015
I just went back and played Battlefield 4 after removing 2042 for the umptenth time and holy shit it was like a return to form. I was getting kills and having fun rather than wanting to scream in frustration.
When they shut down the servers in 2022 or 2023 i think, polyphony digital released an offline patch for gran turismo sport, it was surprising but a welcomed surprise
I'm hoping that offline patches for games becomes the norm soon. I didn't play a whole lot of GT Sport after the initial binge I had when I first bought and installed the game, but it's always nice to know that should I feel the need, I can come back to the game and play it in some capacity.
Games should NEVER be online only. Otherwise, you'll never play the game again eventually. I can still play games. I love Killzone, and despite server shut downs, it's playable with bots. many aren't.
Bots are a great way to keep any online multiplayer aspects of a game still alive and running to an extent once the servers are shut down. It's a shame that like you said, many games don't do that. Or even if they do nowadays, always online DRM would make the game unplayable after a certain point anyway unless an offline patch were to be released.
*The game Agents of Mayhem had its servers shut down in 2020 without any warning, which to some doesn't sound problematic, since the game is 99.99 percent single player anyway.* *Except that the other .01 percent had these contracts that for some reason required Internet in order to complete them, and this ONE stupid achievement required you to complete some of these contracts, rendering some unable to 100 percent the game, all because some moron devs were too lazy to put a simple patch that could have easily fixed this simple issue*
always-online games always meet the same fate the Romanov family did.
that's mainly why i stopped playing The Crew 2, knowing it would just meet the same fate as it's predecessor gave me less of a reason to return to it
When I heard The Crew was shutting down I immediately started playing the game for the entirety of March until the very last day. I did around 35 offenses (cop chases essentially), and for the first time tried online races! Given I was literally 5 when the game released (I’m 15 now) I’m glad it’s apart of me growing up. Hopefully the guys at The Crew Unlimited get the servers up again!
Gran turismo sport taught me the racing line and so did project cars 2 (well PCARS 2 hasn’t shut down yet I think)
“It’s dead; you’re not playing this game. They killed it; this was not a natural death. EA pulled the fucking trigger. They will kill again; there’s going to be an entire generation of games no one will ever play again, we’re just getting started guys.” -Ross Scott, 2015
I just went back and played Battlefield 4 after removing 2042 for the umptenth time and holy shit it was like a return to form. I was getting kills and having fun rather than wanting to scream in frustration.
When they shut down the servers in 2022 or 2023 i think, polyphony digital released an offline patch for gran turismo sport, it was surprising but a welcomed surprise
I'm hoping that offline patches for games becomes the norm soon. I didn't play a whole lot of GT Sport after the initial binge I had when I first bought and installed the game, but it's always nice to know that should I feel the need, I can come back to the game and play it in some capacity.
I actually enjoyed the BF2 (2017 lol) campaign, but you were spot on with the rest of the game!
Games should NEVER be online only. Otherwise, you'll never play the game again eventually. I can still play games. I love Killzone, and despite server shut downs, it's playable with bots. many aren't.
Bots are a great way to keep any online multiplayer aspects of a game still alive and running to an extent once the servers are shut down. It's a shame that like you said, many games don't do that. Or even if they do nowadays, always online DRM would make the game unplayable after a certain point anyway unless an offline patch were to be released.
*cough* Private servers.
*The game Agents of Mayhem had its servers shut down in 2020 without any warning, which to some doesn't sound problematic, since the game is 99.99 percent single player anyway.*
*Except that the other .01 percent had these contracts that for some reason required Internet in order to complete them, and this ONE stupid achievement required you to complete some of these contracts, rendering some unable to 100 percent the game, all because some moron devs were too lazy to put a simple patch that could have easily fixed this simple issue*