Another “always online” game that forces people to connect to internet while playing single player.
Even though most people do have internet access these days, it is still not a good development when you consider some places have less stable internet than others. And also what happens to the game when the server shuts down.
I’m not a payday person so I have no horse in this race, but this is still such utter horseshit.
but I do believe you will have to have a connection in order to play cause it’s made in the Unreal Engine, it’s using cross-progression, crossplay, I do believe we need you to be online," said Listo.
this person should be a politician
but I do believe you will have to have a connection in order to play cause it’s made in the Unreal Engine, it’s using cross-progression, crossplay, I do believe we need you to be online," said Listo.
I’ve been using Unreal Engine 4 since 2014 and in 2020 started using EOS which I’ve shipped on a game. This is bullshit. It’s entirely bullshit that you don’t need someone 10 years into the games industry with the relevant engine experience and relevant online subsystem experience to tell you it’s bullshit. You already know it’s bullshit. But here is a random expert opinion to definitively confirm it’s bullshit.
The only thing they had to do is make it so you can store your progress locally until you connect to a server. I do that with my achievement system in an indie game I made for under 10,000 USD from my publisher. It’s insane to think this is their excuse.
Well, fuck you and your shitty game then. Wasn’t interested in the first place, but this kills any possibility of that ever changing.
This game went from a “maybe” to a “never” for me. Great job, Overkill.
Payday 2: Terrible Performance and Optimization Part 2: Pay Overkill and Buy Another Always-Online Game
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So too do far too many other games.
Usually because they want to sell you cosmetics and other junk and the only way to ensure you don’t just mod it in for free is to make the game phone home and verify itself constantly.
Whatever, PAYDAY 2 was already going to be the better game at launch, might as well make it the only one worth playing at all.
Isn’t this essentially a four player on-line co-op game anyway? Is there anything to even do in it single player?
