@LDXD I feel for you and hear exactly what you're saying. I work in Marketing and Advertising, so I have some experience with how the corporate "hive" mind thinks. Typically, going both ways is costlier than choosing the most popular. People like you and I are further becoming the minority. And companies will follow the trend. I think SP games like the olden days will be Slim Pickens. Just a part of getting older I guess. Reminds me of my grandpa wishing cars were still had carburetors.
@Subie98 Haha. I'm not cheap maybe thrifty is a better word. But I see no issue giving somebody annoying something to get them to leave me alone. Kind of like the old mafia pay-offs to get them out of your face. Now if the cost was outrageous I'd pick up a different hobby.
Yeah I realized it after I sent it. I am going to edit it.
@LDXD I think the point is that it's trending that way. It's not that it isn't "cool" anymore. I love SP games. However, I have been a gamer for a very long time. Games like Metal Gear, Bioshock, and The Last of Us (etc.) will always captivate the gamer in me. But, I like the future of games. I've watched it shift and morph into something so much more amazing than it was just 10 years ago. I play the crap out of Destiny right now and I'll probably play the crap out of the next Assassins Creed, but if The Division is as epic as it appears...It might steal my old man gamer soul.
@Subie98 Shoot, I paid for it for PS3 and I had LIVE for my 360. I got sick and tired of seeing the adverts while shuffling through the menus. "Ain't nobody got time for that" That is easily worth $100+ just to get them to stop shouting at me.
I don't see what the issue is with online only games. Pretty much every home has internet with the cable package. If not, the annual cost of internet can easily be defeated by the amount you'd spend traveling around spending gas and your time finding hot-spots or using your phones data. This is the digital age, if you don't have internet in your home I have bad news for you. That trend will become less commonplace and you will be far more of a minority than you currently are. Putting that point aside, paying for a membership for PS+ or LIVE is a fact of life. Sure you don't have to pay for it but the benefits far out weigh the detriments. You're a consumer and will spend money regardless, why not spend it on your hobby instead of sounding like a miser condemning games for following a trend and advancing the gaming industry? Just my two cents.
So on those points. Online gaming is following a trend. There are more "connected" people than troglodytes. It's not an argument to be had, it's statistics. If 7 out of 10 gamer's have internet and system services memberships then the companies who produce products will aim at the larger market. Don't fear though. There are many IP's that will probably never leap on that train. @Godsire actually named many of those. These titles were built around that aspect of single player campaign. However, new IP's? all bets are off. But, one thing is for sure. They will follow the masses because that is what bankrolls their employees and puts food on their family's table.
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Re: Interview: Will Tom Clancy's The Division Deliver on the PS4?
@LDXD I feel for you and hear exactly what you're saying. I work in Marketing and Advertising, so I have some experience with how the corporate "hive" mind thinks. Typically, going both ways is costlier than choosing the most popular. People like you and I are further becoming the minority. And companies will follow the trend. I think SP games like the olden days will be Slim Pickens. Just a part of getting older I guess. Reminds me of my grandpa wishing cars were still had carburetors.
Re: Interview: Will Tom Clancy's The Division Deliver on the PS4?
@Subie98 Haha. I'm not cheap maybe thrifty is a better word. But I see no issue giving somebody annoying something to get them to leave me alone. Kind of like the old mafia pay-offs to get them out of your face. Now if the cost was outrageous I'd pick up a different hobby.
Yeah I realized it after I sent it. I am going to edit it.
Re: Interview: Will Tom Clancy's The Division Deliver on the PS4?
@LDXD I think the point is that it's trending that way. It's not that it isn't "cool" anymore. I love SP games. However, I have been a gamer for a very long time. Games like Metal Gear, Bioshock, and The Last of Us (etc.) will always captivate the gamer in me. But, I like the future of games. I've watched it shift and morph into something so much more amazing than it was just 10 years ago. I play the crap out of Destiny right now and I'll probably play the crap out of the next Assassins Creed, but if The Division is as epic as it appears...It might steal my old man gamer soul.
Re: Interview: Will Tom Clancy's The Division Deliver on the PS4?
@Subie98 Shoot, I paid for it for PS3 and I had LIVE for my 360. I got sick and tired of seeing the adverts while shuffling through the menus. "Ain't nobody got time for that" That is easily worth $100+ just to get them to stop shouting at me.
Re: Interview: Will Tom Clancy's The Division Deliver on the PS4?
I don't see what the issue is with online only games. Pretty much every home has internet with the cable package. If not, the annual cost of internet can easily be defeated by the amount you'd spend traveling around spending gas and your time finding hot-spots or using your phones data. This is the digital age, if you don't have internet in your home I have bad news for you. That trend will become less commonplace and you will be far more of a minority than you currently are. Putting that point aside, paying for a membership for PS+ or LIVE is a fact of life. Sure you don't have to pay for it but the benefits far out weigh the detriments. You're a consumer and will spend money regardless, why not spend it on your hobby instead of sounding like a miser condemning games for following a trend and advancing the gaming industry? Just my two cents.
So on those points. Online gaming is following a trend. There are more "connected" people than troglodytes. It's not an argument to be had, it's statistics. If 7 out of 10 gamer's have internet and system services memberships then the companies who produce products will aim at the larger market. Don't fear though. There are many IP's that will probably never leap on that train. @Godsire actually named many of those. These titles were built around that aspect of single player campaign. However, new IP's? all bets are off. But, one thing is for sure. They will follow the masses because that is what bankrolls their employees and puts food on their family's table.