The game’s been on the shelves for about a month and creator Square Enix is already talking up a patch that will fundamentally change the story - which made us think of how George Lucas tried to change the Star Wars series.Ī game is bought with the expectation that it will be in a playable state. Dishonored 2 received a patch for New Game Plus - a mode that lets you go through the game again with select items you gained from your first play through.įinal Fantasy XV's Planned Updates Show That It Is Taking Its Biggest Fans for Granted We’ve seen the likes of Doom and Hitman get massive double digit gigabyte patches with documentation alluding to ‘bugs’ and ‘fixes’ and little else. We’ve seen it with Quantum Break, for which developer Remedy thought it was a good idea to make specific narrative elements, namely the game’s live-action TV episodes, available to stream on the PC and download on the Xbox One, instead of being on disc. Lots of game studios have developed a nasty habit of shipping games in a fashion that’s far from complete. Evidently Diablo 3’s Error 37 woes didn’t teach the games industry anything. With Ubisoft’s For Honor being always online, even when you’re playing the single-player story mode, it appears that we’ll be seeing more of this disturbing trend in 2017. 3,499 game you bought, and it feels as if some companies prefer treating customers like thieves, even after paying for a game. Regardless of the reason, it all leads to this - you never quite own the $60/ Rs.
Super Mario Run Android Early 2017 Release Date Is Bad for Nintendo and Gamers Everywhere In Battleborn’s case it was all about “maintaining data integrity”, and “online gameplay permits player’s data to be accessible, even after experiencing a hardware malfunction or purchasing a new console.” It doesn’t help matters that Nintendo decided to apply the same approach to Super Mario Run, due to “security” concerns. By the end of the year, we’ve seen Battleborn and Steep all forsake offline campaigns, instead forcing you to have an Internet connection at all times. New Year's Day 2017: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Autohead, and More on Netflix This MonthĪlways online single-player is the future no one asked forĮ3 2016 saw Titanfall 2 developer Respawn proudly tout the game’s single-player mode as being offline. However 2017 may just be just the opposite of that for a host of reasons. All of these made it a year for gamers the world over. We saw some solid efforts from indie developers, a slew of fantastic AAA games, and rampant price drops. 2016 was a great year for gaming for a variety of reasons.