Hey look - it's the new version of the people that said single player games would die and be replaced by multiplayer games this gen.
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Bioshock 4 developer hiring for endgame content designer and suggests will be a live-service game.
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Hey look - it's the new version of the people that said single player games would die and be replaced by multiplayer games this gen.
i mean, they kind of weren't wrong if we're looking at the EAs, 2Ks, R*s, ubisofts ect
the "one and done" AAA single player game just isn't their wheelhouse. obviously not extinct but it's nowhere near the landscape it was 10-15 years ago
Well they were not completely wrong. While there are many first party games that are single player in nature from Nintendo and Sony, you can't deny that third party games have shifted towards online/multiplayer-centric games, potentially with monetisation, basically live service.
Even (AAA) single-player games these days are often incorporating elements that attempt to stretch out the game, usually by being "open world" or have RPG mechanics, or both.
But it's still not a live service. Live service implies that there's always something in the game to be sold for real money.
Maybe not, but then we would be discussing semantics.
Nobody would consider Oblivion to be GaaS because it has some horse armor to purchase, tho maybe it could be one.
Any way or another, Bioshock 4 is implied to be a live service. Something like TW3 would be basically how the previous Bioshock dlc stuff worked.
Then I'm just hoping for a combination of exp boosters and missions with big expansions every few months.
Sounds great to me personally. I wasn't done with Columbia in Infinite in any way shape or form. In fact by the time I finished the game, fact I couldn't go back was such a waste. To those who don't want to play the post game content, just don't play it then? What's the fear?
It's also important to note that Rockstar does all of this really well these days - creates an amazing world with a 100% singleplayer experience, but then also provides an optional online component for players to continue spending time in that world. Assassin's Creed Odyssey also does a great job of providing "end game" GaaS systems, without shared worlds (so no other players to bump into) and without loot boxes.
People need to stop knee-jerking to these news stories. Live service can work incredibly well with the right implementation. Doesn't mean it will affect the main game being single player.
A live service could be good in sense where locations and npcs grow over time in unique was power by cloud.
I'd probably still play it as long as there's some kind of coherent "campaign" I can just go through. Some of these live service games are decent to just play through in that way, I had a good time with the Division 2 this year and didn't really fuck with the end-game stuff, just played it as a single player action RPG.
