EA: Non-connected games are finished (good interview w/ Frank Gibeau)

[Rainbird]

Beuli2 said:

Rainbird said:

You're not reading what he said, he's saying that the games that are created, put out the door and never touched again by the developer are done.

Mass Effect 2 is connected online, it got plenty of DLC and support. It's not connected as in having multiplayer, it's connected as in something the developers continue to support and add to, whether that's in singleplayer or multiplayer.

Why? They are gone? Gaming has always worked well without developers patching everything up until now. I don't see why would it be over.

Because we're coming into an age where the internet is more prevalent than ever. It's not about patching things up to the right and left, he's saying that games that are just created and pushed out the door without developers ever coming back to it are ending.

And he's not saying that they're gone now, he's saying they're on the way out.

Games have always worked well, and they're constantly improving.