>"Why can't I play the game offline?"
>"You just can't, okay?"

At what point exactly did "sunset" replace "shutdown"

>>714452068 (OP)
Every moment spent playing old games is a moment spent not purchasing cosmetics in new games.

>>714452125
george carlin on soft language clip

>>714452068 (OP)
what is anthem

>>714452248
Unhoused

>>714452283
a bad game that no one remembers

>>714452636
I sometimes randomly remember how they completely fucked up the level scaling and for a time the best gun at max level was a special level 1 default gun you could only use if you never equipped a weapon.

>>714452068 (OP)
Back in the early 2000s any online game would have a server emulator project, what happened?

>>714453901
Back in the 2000's online games were good or, at the very least, fun enough and free anyways and since you're 13 with a weekly allowance of five bucks from dad and that counts for a lot.

Anthem is both crap and ruinously expensive; full price PLUS mtx on top of that.

>>714453901
Early 2000s online gaming communities had a much larger percentage of nerds (actual nerds; not modern pop culture """nerds""") who would enjoy and take pride in creating such emulators
Modern online gaming communities are full of normalfags who will just eat up whatever slop gets served to them

>>714453901
Gamers had passion back then. The only time you can move people now is with drama and e-celebs sadly. There is like a much easier way to save online games which people seem to overlook. Just buy it outright from the IP owner. If you can rally people to do 1 million signatures then you can easily rally people to buy games you want to save. Developers get a surge of money to work on their next project and gamers save a game they like. Win-win all around. But sure... let's go straight to government intervention because trying something that is still hard but much simpler to do than making a law is such a good idea.

>game stopped development in 2021
>just now shutting it off
did someone at ea just forget they left the server on?

>>714453901
there are now billions of zombies that can and will defend their corporate masters

>>714452068 (OP)
>why can't I play Anthem offline
>because we designed it so that you can't
lol

>>714455469
>but much simpler to do than making a law
How do people still vastly underestimate how difficult it is to coordinate massive numbers of people these days?
Even with all the advancements in communication tech, it's still a massive amount of effort.
This was just for signing a petition too, imagine trying to get this many motherfuckers to avoid buying a game they want.
Everyone's seen the numerous failed steam boycott groups.

Someone in this thread SO FUCKING ANGRY about this, prove you have Anthem.

>there will be no layoffs
Phew! That's what's really important to me as a gamer.

>>714453901
Technocracy hadn't taken full control of the gaming market yet

If they keep letting you play their old dead game, then you're less likely to buy their next dogshit game

>>714452068 (OP)
>Designed online only
can't you solo the entire game? I thought it was just some coop campaign shoot game like halo

>>714453901
Shit like this that has been built-in in newer online live-service garbage is truly difficult to reimplement when there are no microtransactions.
>System and method for driving microtransactions in multiplayer video games
>
A system and method is provided that drives microtransactions in multiplayer video games. The system may include a microtransaction arrange matches to influence game-related purchases. For instance, the system may match a more expert/marquee player with a junior player to encourage the junior player to make game-related purchases of items possessed/used by the marquee player. A junior player may wish to emulate the marquee player by obtaining weapons or other items used by the marquee player.

>>714453901
Zoomers are trained to be anti-emulation

>>714453901
a lot of games back then also gave you the tools to host your own dedicated server. you don't even get that anymore, so now when a game shuts down you have to completely reverse engineer the tools to host a server.

>>714453901
no one wants to play this game and frankly it's one of the most solid examples that some games should be killed.

>>714461804
Even shitty games deserve preservation, anon. If we do not remember our mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them.

>>714453901
MBA demons writhe in agony at the concept of you enjoying something for free.

>>714462281
They're still making those mistakes. It isn't working. Just pull the plug.

>>714455469
You're really naive and probably never had to manage your own finances to any meaningful degree. A petition signature is free. I signed the ECI petition, but if Ross had asked me for money I wouldn't have given him any and I wouldn't have bought anything had he asked me to.

>>714462281
Even a shitty game can have redeeming qualities or something interesting about it that makes it worth preserving. There's a dumb mobile game that I'd really like to be able to play because it's the only time in the series when my favorite character played a main role in the story. Its contents have been lost forever. No one has found a way to make it playable (a guy who tried gave up and then disappeared from the internet without sharing his progress) and no gameplay video footage beyond the first 30 minutes seems to exist, either.

>>714452068 (OP)
>Anthem was designed to be an online-only title
Maxis tried this same excuse with SimCity 2013

>>714452125
originally it was a reasonable way to describe no longer supporting it actively; imagine someone making a few final updates to software that makes it easier to figure out issues and makes it resilient to bugs in the future, or even going as far as making it open source. "As we sunset our development for ExampleSoftware, we'll be updating it over the next few months to remove identifiable details and prep it for an open-source release..." or something along those lines.
Then, jews.

>>714452125
First I heard it was with destiny 2.

>>714453901
drm got better

SKG was right

>>714453901
Don't confuse "server emulator project" with "the game launched with server binaries in the first place." This braindead-simple fact has somehow become lost to time.

>>714464394
SKG is commie bullshit

>>714464394
The ultimate goal of Start Killing Goys is to make DRM'd and live-service games more palatable by promising you that you'll be able to play them forever, and thus feeling no need to stop funding that cancer.

>>714464524
I too hate owning the shit I pay for.

SKG is another gamergate where nazis and bigots want a diverse industry to crash and burn, because they made games they don't like?

>>714464552
That's fucking retarded. Online games are a service.
It's like going to a restaurant and expecting to own the waiter and chef just because you bought a $15 plate of spaghetti.

>>714452068 (OP)
Why don't these companies ever try to read the room and get an easy publicity win by putting in the bare minimum effort and just make the game playable offline? For a game like Anthem which already is fully playable solo, it'd take like 1 afternoon of work from 1 unpaid intern. Maybe 2 or 3 afternoons if you want to be extra fancy and do a couple of balance changes to make it more fun to play solo.

>>714464676
They they should only be sold on subscriptions with strictly defined end dates.

>>714464618
Yes, that's exactly right. And it's not just "want" it's happening. Right now.

>tens of thousands of jobs laid off every other month
>every AAA game is a flop
>all corporate controlled media is dead
you are here
>game developers are fed into woodchippers for inclusivity
>wolfenstein where you play as mecha hitler is released and becomes the best selling game of all time
>players can be banned if they don't use the n word at least once in voicechat per match

Enjoy your time while you have it, your era is already over.

>>714464527
What a stupid theory, are you a moron? You think if people thought Anthem would always be playable online, it would have been a more successful game? It lost most of its playerbase like a month after release when nobody even thought of the servers shutting down.

>>714452068 (OP)
>hahahah fuck you
Puzzles me why they dont just give people unlimited fake currency when they're going to shitcan it.
Like really you're greedy for those last few shekels?

We're there no players (whales) at all? Why would EA shutdown it?

>>714452068 (OP)
i still remember the days of unreal tournament 2k4 in which everyone could host and be its own server and there was no faggot middleman that would later kill everything

>>714459219
>almost 3 hours
>still bitching about a game they never played after being called out on it

>>714464618
If your game is so successful why would having to offer an offline mode be an issue? If you are successful you will keep your game online wouldn't you? hmm?

>>714464676
>Online games are a service.
Nope. Online games are online games.

>>714464850
>You think if people thought Anthem would always be playable online, it would have been a more successful game?
No, I'm saying that keeping live-service cancer alive will only lead to more people financially supporting that cancer.
>The worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it.

>>714464676
>buy plate of food
>you have to eat this in 15 minutes or we take it away
Get your analogy correct boy.

we have to sunset all the developers pushing for shit games

>>714465013
And you are wrong. We've been over this. Every game was trying for a sub model and they all fucking failed.

>>714465102
And there's plenty of successful live-service garbage. Genshin Impact (most gacha, actually), FIFA, Call of Duty, Fortnite, even nu-Hitman has live-service elements that didn't need to be done in that way, and that game was a massive success. IO Interactive was actively and massively rewarded for inserting GaaS elements in a single-player game, and will continue to do so.

>>714463190
>Maxis tried this same excuse with SimCity 2013
With game journos swearing blind that it couldn't be made to operate offline because the online functionality was so intrinsically built into the game that it was impossible to do. Then it turns out that the online parts literally didn't matter since all they were was some numbers of in/out traffic/demand whatever it was from other player's cities that were in 'your' map segment. And even then it didn't seem like the numbers were even real or related to how their cities were made up. Basically just a random number generator.

>>714453901
encryption

>>714465013
That makes absolutely zero sense though. Live service games are shutting down when the playerbase becomes too small to make it profitable to keep the servers running. If games like Skulls and Bones, Suicide Squad and Anthem were guaranteed to go on forever, they'd still have the same tiny, non-profitable playerbase because those games suck ass and nobody actually wanted to play them even back when they were brand new.

Imagine if they shut down Dark Souls after 2 years because they couldn't be bothered to pay for servers to host soapstone messages and blood stains.

>>714465047
>buy plate of food
>everyone leaves
>you're still playing with your food
>2am rolls around
>the manager kicks you out
>"b-but I was still eating!!!!!!!"
That's you. Show you own Anthem and have a stake in this.

>>714465276
People being ripped off constantly eventually realise that they need to stop GaaS garbage.
Securing their investment in them, will only cause to make them invest in more GaaS garbage, since now they have quite literally nothing to lose by doing so.
Before that, there was an inherent risk to any live service title.

>>714465745
I only play GaaS. No good games have ever been made that don't fit that model.

>>714452142
forget twoweeks and annual footie, the real competition greedy hacks of tomorrow face is the sheer volume of triumphs from yesterday
and as modern games get longer and longer support cycles, while newer ones see less and less graphical improvements, publishers fear that one "too" successful game will put them out of business

>>714465794
What about Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!?

>>714465739
>I take the spaghetti home
>I keep playing with it
>I tell my friends how much fun playing with this spaghetti is
>they come over and we have fun playing spaghetti together
>sure, it gets a little old and crusty after a while, but it's still kinda fun to mess with every now and again

Then one day, the chef from the restaurant breaks into my house and burns my fucking spaghetti to ash.

>>714465915
>picks one of the worst entries
You didn't even try.

>>714453901
what happened is that you can't run any modern video game server unless you have access to billion dollar hardware.

>>714452068 (OP)
Just re-sell it to someone else while you still can

>>714466003
>one of the worst entries
Now, that's contrarianism.

>>714465745
You didn't read the petition or you are too stupid to understand what is actually being demanded here. There is still the same risk of the live service game shutting down its live service functionality, the only difference is that game devs would be forced to provide an offline solution so players can still continue playing the game without the online functionality after the servers shut down because they are no longer profitable. Which would be extremely easy to do for most titles and used to be the standard in games to begin with. It used to be unheard of that any game outside of MMORPGs did not have any offline functionality whatsoever.

>>714466010
An absolute fucking lie, for the record. Sure, you can't support a million active players and manage account and billing info, but you can bet your ass those devs have a local SERVER.EXE file that they run on shitty laptops for testing purposes.

>>714466062
>the only difference is that game devs would be forced to provide an offline solution so players can still continue playing the game without the online functionality after the servers shut down because they are no longer profitable
>since now they have quite literally nothing to lose by doing so
Maybe this was a bit of hyperbole, but you're still saving their financial support in live-service cancer.

>>714466036
No, it really was out of the main 7 entries in the trilogy. I think only 2 was worse.

>>714466167
>trilogy
>7 entries
Also:
>OG Larry
>7 entries

>>714466242
I count 8 as part of the trilogy, so it had 7 entries. And as for your "trilogy" grumbling, it's a joke so old it could be your unc, frfr no cap.

>>714464840
>players can be banned if they don't use the n word
i imagine that as a bonding experience on a community server
as the timer hits zero and match officially begins, NIGGER is heard as a server-wide battlecry
anybody whose mic isn't peaking into the red zone will get votekick'd

>>714466384
What Larry 8?

>>714466153
I cannot tell if you are genuinely retarded or if you are just trolling. Your theory is that this petition is some kind of master plan because developers would somehow benefit from being forced to include an offline mode for their games? If that's the case, why the fuck didn't they do this up until now? Why do they need a petition to force them? If it would be beneficial for them, they'd be doing it already. Clearly shutting down the service entirely is better for their bottom line, otherwise they would be doing it right now.

>>714466462
I'm saying that it's not coincidence that Apple started flexing USB C after the European Union forced them to use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GtnMh38LuA
Something similar will happen here, instead of letting people realise that funding live-service cancer is ultimately detrimental to their interests.

>>714464852
but anonymous, if the central authority gave out everybody ludicrous amounts of scarce currency, it would devalue the experience paying customers are entitled to!

>>714452068 (OP)
>EA
You played yourself

>>714466616
Your theory is simply inherently flawed. Consoomers will always consoom and they've shown that no amount of live service greed is too much for them. If Diablo 4 eventually shuts down, those same people who spent money on microtransactions would all line up at the launch of Diablo 5, with their wallets ready to do it all over again. The only difference is that now Blizzard would be forced to provide an offline mode for Diablo 4, just like they have had in the past. Again, it's been absolutely expected for video games to have an offline mode, even multiplayer arena shooters had offline modes where you could play against bots. We need to go back to that standard and if this somehow aligns with the interetst of live service game devs (it doesn't), then great, it's a win win I suppose.

>>714466429
>pretending it wasn't great

>>714467272
Who the hell considers that game as part of the classic saga?

>>714467368
Straight men. You wouldn't understand.

>>714465975
I am imagining a chef seething at a person who doesn't want to eat his spaghetti. At some point he feels like it will happen but the person does something wacky with it again. At some point he is so mad that he just kicks down the door and destroys the dish