as someone who never-ever plays anything but single player offline
Well that's really it. Ever since they've phased out player-hosted dedicated servers in favor of "matchmaking" it has become practally impossible to play online without an account tied to your purchase. Most games don't even ship the server software any more. It is not enough to crack the games now that they all require authentication on privately owned infrastructure.
Good reason to play single-player games instead though.
I'm fully blackpilled and expecting big publishers to attempt to stadiafy the entire medium in like 5 years
Modding? Piracy? Games preservation? Circumventing regional locks? Eat a dick, you're not going to get your hands on any of those assets, they're all gonna exist under lock and key on a server in some company's basement but they'll magnanimously deign to let you look at them via a shitty Netflix stream for 10 bucks a month
I am really worried about this happening. Besides the fact that it's super fucked up it would mean I basically couldn't play anything anymore. Sometimes my internet is good enough I can pay something like ESO but I've never been able to play fps or anything else that requires instant reaction.
And while most of the world has better internet then the rural US there are people all over who would be in the same boat. I'm sure we don't have enough purchasing power for the game companies to give half a shit though. For all the shit CDprojk red has done at least they really stand by the idea of drm free games.
I can see myself only playing new games if they are open source past this point. The industry is just so bad. Games often aren't even games anymore, just shameless cash grabs and child gambling addiction simulators.
I’m fully blackpilled and expecting big publishers to attempt to stadiafy the entire medium in like 5 years
To be real for a minute, it very likely won't happen, as the infrastructure just can't support it. It's as Gabe said "Game streaming is great until it becomes popular".
Most games that allow dedicated private servers can do multiplayer with a pirated copy, like Ark, Conan Exiles, IIRC Valheim, etc, so long as the server isn't validating the clients and running anticheat (meaning you can host a private server for yourself and your friends, but probably won't find public community servers). Even some P2P ones can with some workarounds.
Well that's really it. Ever since they've phased out player-hosted dedicated servers in favor of "matchmaking" it has become practally impossible to play online without an account tied to your purchase. Most games don't even ship the server software any more. It is not enough to crack the games now that they all require authentication on privately owned infrastructure.
Good reason to play single-player games instead though.
I'm fully blackpilled and expecting big publishers to attempt to stadiafy the entire medium in like 5 years
Modding? Piracy? Games preservation? Circumventing regional locks? Eat a dick, you're not going to get your hands on any of those assets, they're all gonna exist under lock and key on a server in some company's basement but they'll magnanimously deign to let you look at them via a shitty Netflix stream for 10 bucks a month
I am really worried about this happening. Besides the fact that it's super fucked up it would mean I basically couldn't play anything anymore. Sometimes my internet is good enough I can pay something like ESO but I've never been able to play fps or anything else that requires instant reaction.
And while most of the world has better internet then the rural US there are people all over who would be in the same boat. I'm sure we don't have enough purchasing power for the game companies to give half a shit though. For all the shit CDprojk red has done at least they really stand by the idea of drm free games.
I can see myself only playing new games if they are open source past this point. The industry is just so bad. Games often aren't even games anymore, just shameless cash grabs and child gambling addiction simulators.
As long as Fitgirl and Codex are around I'm good.
To be real for a minute, it very likely won't happen, as the infrastructure just can't support it. It's as Gabe said "Game streaming is great until it becomes popular".
I think that won't happen... Because the ISPs won't let it because THEY want to screw over their customers, dammit!
Most games that allow dedicated private servers can do multiplayer with a pirated copy, like Ark, Conan Exiles, IIRC Valheim, etc, so long as the server isn't validating the clients and running anticheat (meaning you can host a private server for yourself and your friends, but probably won't find public community servers). Even some P2P ones can with some workarounds.