[nottorp]

I'm talking about single player games. Multiplayer used to be fun but now they're all IAP fests so I ignore them and have no opinion on them.

Edit: and duh. When you buy a game that's only played online you're dependent on the servers staying up. It's logical.

There are other kinds of games though.

[pixl97]

>I'm talking about single player games.

This means nothing, there have been piles of single player games that have required a connection check before working. Sim City 4 was an example of this.

And, even buying it and not having that check doesn't mean that it won't be updated to require a server (you have an actual disk to reinstall right, because the original installer may disappear too).

[piperswe]

SimCity (2013), not SimCity 4. SimCity 4 was the last beloved SimCity game, released in 2003.

[nottorp]

You're talking about EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar titles there. Case closed.

Incidentally, if you must get something from those 3, they're forbidden to require an account on at least the PlayStation. Not sure about XBox.

[johnnyanmac]

do they need to list every single player game that has a day one patch not included on a physical disc? I guess we haven't gotten so far in game patching that some retro gamers buy a new copy of a game and can't update to 1.0.0 now.

[nottorp]

The companies I listed require an account with them, not day one patches.

[johnnyanmac]

Both affect the ability to play a game out of the box, should servers be down.

[nottorp]

Only multiplayer online games. For single player, especially on consoles that still have a bit of QA left, you can live with 1.0.0.

And look on the bright side. If you're stuck on 1.0.0 you're missing the microtransactions they introduced in 1.0.1 after the reviewers finished publishing their reviews.

Edit: why do I get the feeling most of the people disagreeing with me only play PC games from the big 4-5 names? In which case I completely agree with them.

[PeterisP]

Many modern games that have only a single-player mode are still intentionally dependent on the servers staying up, and games that have both single-player and online modes will prevent you from playing the offline mode if they can't connect to the servers.

[tadfisher]

You can still play Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament (1999) online, because third-party game servers used to be the normal way online games worked. Hell, Team Fortress 2 is only playable on third-party servers, as the official servers are full of cheaters.