StickSkills.com writes, "The mere possibility of the next generation of consoles going “download only” for game distribution is something that petrifies me. See, due to me living in the middle of nowhere I am part of a rare group of gamers who can’t get broadband internet. The kinds of things that take a couple minutes for the privileged many out there (like downloading patches or games off of Playstation Network or Xbox Live arcade) sometimes takes me a couple hours. So what’s it like to live in this dark world? Well, it isn’t fun."
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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I still prefer SP to MP. Single player games are just so much more engaging, RPGs being an example. RPGs especially have just such a "magical" way of sucking you into the world as a SP expierence, that just can not be matched online.
It's gotta be rough being an offline gamer this gen. Half the games out there at retail are practically beta versions because devs are so reliant on post-launch patches.
I'm in the same boat as the author in a lot of ways.
I don't even care about multiplayer in certain games (I prefer offline MP), but what I haaaaate is how many games need patched these days. It's insane, and what's worse is that so many people have come to accept and expect it. Ugh.
Thats gotta suck, i use my internet for so many things i couldnt imagine not having it. Out of curiosoity where do you live? Satalite internet not an option?
an offline gamer without patches kind of sucks, a perfect example is Skyward Sword, or Skyrim without patches man that would suck, and sucks for the game breaking bug Zelda has : /