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[Poll] The Future of Gaming: Online vs Offline
Kuaidam
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So! This morning I read in a sad corner article about Gamescon in a local newspaper that some guy... Mark Cerny (says the article "developer of video games such as Motor Storm") said that "In a world with Facebook, offline game mode will be unthinkable in three years."
What do you think?
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No. Online gaming will keep on growing, but there will always be offline games. There are already a ton of games that you don't have to be online to play. Those games aren't going anywhere. You may need older systems to run them, but it will always be possible.
On the other hand, in a few years, I can see most (if not all) single player games being required to have the internet running to play, simply for the anti-piracy aspect.
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Eventually yes, but the 3 years quoted in the OP is a way too soon.
Offline games will never go away entirely. There will always be new things cooked up by some geek in his free time. But online games will be increasingly prevalent, even for single-player games.
Maybe in the FAAAR future we will see online only.
But for the next 5 years at least, offline gaming is here to stay.
When MMORPGs will be able to offer the same questing experience as single-player RPGs, then maybe we'll see a real shift happening. Phasing is the answer to this and it's definitely getting better and better... but it's still far away from offering a real alternative. You can't compare WoW's questing experience with Dragon Age's or NWN2's for example.
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I think that the shift towards online only is already happening, game shops now rarely stock PC games, so often the only option is either to get things via download through steam etc, or to wait for it to arrive via mail order... even then, most games already require an online connection to work properly.. having an offline game requiring an online connection though is a problem, with all the problems i had with gta IV... its a good thing i didnt have the physical disc's or i'd have probably thrown them at the wall, good old xbox live... the cause of much cursing, frustration and violence against small inanimate objects.... when saving a game suddenly became impossible because.. the xbox live server was not available.. the worst part.. i don't even have an xbox.. .. much as i hate the prospect of this kind of thing happening in the future.. it does seem inevitable.. though one things for sure. for the sake of my mental health.. or what remains of it.. i'll definitely be avoiding anything with an xbox live requirement...
It's hard to take anyone seriously who so readily slaps together the concepts of 'Games' and Facebook, and sees the holy grail.
It sounds to me like Cerny is just trying to pump up a market that he himself is planning on exploiting (see Gore re: global warming). The word "self-serving" immediately comes to mind. Am I a cynic or a realist? We'll see.
Offline gaming will still be there. Hell, there's a big stink between consumers and developers regarding DRM that requires a constant internet connection, esp for a game that's playing a SP aspect.
This talk reminds me of the longstanding predictions of doom that PC gaming will be gone. They've been saying that for more than a decade now.
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I dont know. I do get the feeling that games are definitlely going for a more online focus.
For starters, old single player games that were once exclusively single player, namely Rockstar games, are now being built with an online component (Red Dead Redemption).
Then you have games like Modern Warfare that have a good yet very short single player campaign. You can tell that game is mainly designed for multiplayer.
Then comes along Diablo 3 and to my surprise its online only.
Personally Im a single player mode type guy. Hey, online can be a blast, but I sort of like to just sit back, relax, and loose myself in the world of single player with no pressure. I really hope games dont mostly start catering to multiplayer, although I think they already are. When games stop offering a single player mode, I'll probably stop playing games as much.
90% of the mmo genra are basicly single player games anyways..who knows the future..hell for all we know we could all be wiped out buy terminators and be to busy playing real life fps and mmo's lol
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Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
And they're still stuck in "least common denominator" mode, after 10 years.
Once upon a time....
From my view seems like "we have arrived" is probably appropriate.
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