librarian13579 said:
I'm pretty much a 100% retro gamer nowadays. It's a casualty of spending decades in the industry where owning a video game was like owning a book. I can still go way back to 1997 and play Goldeneye 007 with my friends, just like how I can read my old books from when I was a kid. Will we be able to properly play the majority of AAA games 20 years from now when the servers shut off? Not a chance in hell. So I don't even bother. |
What makes you think we won't, majority of games aren't GAAS, most AAA games have had some kind of DLC for more than a decade now, most of them being useless shit that don't affect the base game, except for story DLC, which always get included in GOTY editions later on. Shadow of War is a new case, I predict their business model isn't gonna work and it'll be panned by critics, I barely see any hype for this game. Just like online passes and tacked on multiplayer modes of last gen the market will correct itself. Rockstar? When did they make GTA5 online only? You'll perfectly be able to play today's games 20 years from now. GAAS isn't your problem, there are plenty of good models out there, it's that singleplayer games disappear because mainstream tastes are changing.
