What’s Wrong With Online Only Games

Jerry Dobracki from BagoGames writes: I have never really gotten into an MMO or online only game before. Destiny popped my cherry with that sort of game. I had really enjoyed my time with Left 4 Dead and assumed that a nice campaign would accompany the game along with lots of things to do alone. Man was I wrong. Yeah there was a short six hour campaign I could enjoy on my own, but to really delve deep into the game I had to have a chunk of friends. At least in Left 4 Dead I had some pretty smart AI help to accompany me during my campaigns, and I did well. Was it fun when my buddies joined and we kicked collective ass? Of course, but I could play the game sans friends.

[MrsNesbitt]

"Destiny popped my cherry" Fantastic use of phrase. Hilarious!

[Relientk77]

If your internet goes down, or PSN/XBL then you can't play them and that sucks

[Clogmaster]

I find it annoying when I just want to suspend a game in Rest Mode, because I don't have large intervals to play. And then when I resume, it kicks me to the main menu, has to load, often update, yada yada yada, and I can lose 3~10 minutes of play time out of my 20~30 minute window.

[fenome]

Plus if they decide to shut the servers down you have lose the game forever.. not cool.

[LamerTamer]

It is not if, it is when.

[fenome]

That's the sad truth too. Nostalgia is gonna die with in an always online world..

[UgoGalimbertti]

I'll talk about an old game, but The Crew before the Wild Run expansion should have had an offline section. God, i hated losing progress in a mission by disconnection. Mission that i was playing alone, btw. This to not mention the exploration potential that the game has that cannot be played solo.
Haven't played the division yet, but must be the same. I liked a lot the crew, just those little things that get on the way.

[Hoffmann]

I tend to boycott any only online games. Didnt regret it so far.

[Eldyraen]

It depends on the game.

I've loved a ton of online only games over the years but most have been mmos. A few online only games though are online only when they didn't need to be necessarily which is the problem. Not too many but a few show up now and again.

[Perjoss]

I dont have a problem with having to be connected to play, but I have a huge problem with companies having the power to make their games vanish for good. Its a truly terrible thing when it comes to things like games preservation.

[ninsigma]

Yeah that aspect sucks. For the likes of Destiny and the division, I'd hope that when the servers eventually go down, they let it still be played in a single player capacity offline.

[holtzy]

if your connection drops no more game for you also i dont feel like listening to a bunch of immature adults that act like they are 12 telling me off. single player for me, if the game has no single player portion i will not buy the game. if your network drops you can't play the game

[AgentSmithPS4]

I rarely get this, maybe they just do it to the less fortunate players? Pushing the mute button isn't that hard btw, I have to do it sometimes when a dumbass has a lot of useless noise and no communication.

[-Foxtrot]

Connection dropping

Repetitive content

Less content

More season passes and DLC

[sullynathan]

Sounds an awful lot like the single player games we've been getting for the past 5 years, except the connection dropping.

[freshslicepizza]

less content? that is not really relevant when one person plays hundreds of hours online compared to most single player games that take less than 20 hours.

not sure why people can't comprehend both can offer great content to be enjoyed. the real reason why people are miffed is because they want a sense of ownership. that way they can pretend they will play it again in 20 years but in reality they want the freedom of lending/borrowing/selling/buyi ng/trading.

[theFAYEsorceress]

because we don't live in a time where internet/online services is guaranteed to be up 100% of the time. even if it goes down .1% of the time, people get PISSED lol

[d4v0333]

There is nothing wrong with online only games and they are pretty fun to play well at least to me. The only thing is that sometimes if you internet goes do you won't be able to play that particular online only game and I am sure if you are a gamer you will have some other games laying around that can be played offline as well so you can just pop that single player game on and play that until your connection is back up and running (hopefully by you calling the service provider and yelling at them). So again online only games are awesome as much as non-online only games are.

[JasonKCK]

Get used to it

[Austin48]

If we all work together we can stop this online only crap.

[OutcastMosquito]

I don't lose any sleep over it. I play any game I want to and don't care if it's online only like destiny or single player only like fallout.

[gamejediben]

Single player or GTFO

[Cy]

Because I don't play games for a social experience. I play games mostly to experience an interactive story, and partly to do things I could never do in real life, like sneak into a guarded facility and stab everyone inside without getting caught. The narratives in online games are generally terrible, unless they're The Old Republic.

[Psychotica]

Because the developer can turn the servers off whenever they want and then the game is totally useless.

[Jag-T1000]

You have to play while the game is hot. Otherwise you will spend a lot of time finding a match.

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

I have no problems with online only games as long as they don't make make up the majority of releases and/or forced in games that never needed it in the first place.

[Ch1d0r1]

Yeah. Like single player games that for some reason might need online only always or they won't function at all.

[iceman06]

Soooo true!

[Ch1d0r1]

League of Lengends and the rest of the MOBA's are online only, the worlds fine.