New NFS to be Always Online

the NFS game will require an online connection even for single player mode.

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"We can confirm that, yes, a connection will be needed to play the game," EA revealed. "To deliver the best experience possible and make playing with friends more rewarding, an online connection will be required."

The reboot will have a proper single-player mode, the publisher said, but it will also require an internet connection to play.

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The game will not have cockpit view either!

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Big deal....who doesn't have an internet connection nowadays? It's a public utility, basically.

Hype killed

I thought we were through with the stupidity of having to be online when playing single player. This move by EA is just stupid. It's like requiring a CD to play a digital game.

I will not be buying this garbage

Same here.

This game is going to flop so bad haha.

@lordlors: I don't think it's like that at all...not when it's an open online world.

No thanks.

I don't care about internet connection, but no cockpit view ? I am done with NFS.

They went out of they're way saying this next NFS will be a reboot and next step in the series only to make it DOA at release.

i really wonder why developers do this to themselves.

Wasn't going to play it anyways, but this just further cements that decision.

Millions. It's the reason why MS went back on their always-on policy on the Xbox One. The fact is, there is NO FUCKING REASON to that a single-player campaign needs a constant internet connection, except that the publisher doesn't trust their own customers and wants to continuously verify that they're the owners. Still amazes me that some people defend this shit.

**** that shit.

@JustPlainLucas: I wasn't mad about MS's original idea...it was too early for the masses and the message was fumbled.

If the game will be better with an internet connection then I'm fine with it.

EA still hasn't learned anything since 2013 after the backlash of SimCity (2013). If it didn't work back then, why would it work now?

People still care about this series?

**** that shit.

Yes, but if all you're doing is playing by yourself, then you don't NEED an internet connection...

But the cloud processing!

@JustPlainLucas: But the single player will be online, no? For a reason, yes? The single player may have other online players or friends involved.

I'm still wondering how this stuff is still approved in project meetings.

This only further cements my idea that AAA games aren't expensive, publishers are just really really dumb.

**** you too

The reason is so that EA can constantly validate your game. There is no beneficial reason that other people have to be on when you want to play by yourself.

NFS is dead dudes for ages. Give up.

surprised it has taken this long since NFSMW Criterion

Well I am not getting this now. Good job EA.

yeah always online is a real hype killer.

Game looks pretty promising otherwise, but there is no reason this game should be always online.

Its always online so they can shove those social features down our throats.

meh this isn't a big deal to me, long as the game is good i will be happy to purchase.

Confirmed for a horrible game.

All of these all at once, EA loves saving me money. Gonna wait for their inevitable PR when they say is hasn't sold well and not realise it was because they made it legitimately unplayable for a large portion of gamers straight out the gate lol #teamofflinesingleplayr

and they can just disable those features if a person isn't online. The point is that most of the time these "always online features" aren't necessary, and could easily be done without.

I'll get it when they make it playable offline.

Indeed, you'd think a massive company like EA would learn from their mistakes. Guess not.

This is the sort of game I'll possibly buy but I wont now on principal. I have online but it shouldn't be necessary to play a single player game I've bought. It's that simple.

This. So much for them trying to be a better company, eh @roler42?

They lied about Sim City and its server side processing.

I will wait for the cracked offline version.

While it must suck for people that don't have broadband connections, I don't care because I do :p

@nintendoboy16: Keyword: Trying, for every good deed EA does, they end up making 2-3 bad ones

If they we're trying, they'd stop repeating some mistakes they already made before, don't you think? That shit with SimCity 2013 wasn't some fart in the wind.

FH2 killed need for speed on XB1. Now need for speed is killing itself everywhere else.

I'm so glad that I'm able to play the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Offline! The true benefits of a DRM-Free gaming world! Sadly no publisher, like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and Valve CORP will understand that.

Hmm, about Witcher III, EA and Valve, look what I found advertised on Origin today.

Either CDP is trying to be clever, or they are sending mixed messages by being able to get it Origin and Steam. I understand broadening your horizons for more money, but with the no DRM thing they like to push (and the disappointment that GOG is nowhere near popular as Steam), I would've thought they would make TW3 EXCLUSIVE to GOG in the Digital sector. :|

If you have a shitty router like me this means the game will give me an error message atleast once a day. :P

But seriously, if you can't play something that you own without depending on another party, you don't actually own it.

@nintendoboy16 said:

@FireEmblem_Man said:

@nintendoboy16 said:

@FireEmblem_Man said:

EA still hasn't learned anything since 2013 after the backlash of SimCity (2013). If it didn't work back then, why would it work now?

This. So much for them trying to be a better company, eh @roler42?

I'm so glad that I'm able to play the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Offline! The true benefits of a DRM-Free gaming world! Sadly no publisher, like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and Valve CORP will understand that.

Hmm, about Witcher III, EA and Valve, look what I found advertised on Origin today.

Either CDP is trying to be clever, or they are sending mixed messages by being able to get it Origin and Steam. I understand broadening your horizons for more money, but with the no DRM thing they like to push (and the disappointment that GOG is nowhere near popular as Steam), I would've thought they would make TW3 EXCLUSIVE to GOG in the Digital sector. :|

Jesus christ man one thing is being loyal to your fanbase another is butchering sales... It would be pure stupidity to make their game exclusive to GOG.

.. Haven't they learned their lesson from the clusterfuck that is the newest Sim City? Which ultimately led to the closing down of Maxis more or less.. EA hasn't learned at all.. I predict the game is going to flop hard, and they are going to take another dev out to pasture to shoot them.