always online even for SP

http://www.pcgamesn.com/for-honor/for-honor-always-online

Why does this matter? Honestly these people so opposed to online stuff must PO from gaming. It's because of these people that we aren't able to sell digital games like MS planned from the start or have to jump through hoops to share games. It is 2016 almost every electronic device we own can connect to the net, options are available everyone. If you still aren't able to get online in some way then honestly you are just lazy or too cheap to pay for it.

Amazing how people will moan about something like this but are happy to purchase broken games that require internet to work properly anyway or buy new games that receive a patch a few weeks later that drastically change the game, wtf are people without internet doing about that?

On a side note I didn't even know this game has an SP campaign, thought this was online only so that's a plus.

There is a big difference between having internet and having reliable low latency internet.

Many people can download games, patches etc but cannot play MP etc due to the above.

It seems to be issue all around the world,

EDIT: on personal note I normally play offline but always play Forza, Telltale games etc. online due to the user feedback. I have been thrown out of my SP game when the wireless data goes down. Pretty annoying but fortunately rare.

Big difference between playing Multiplayer and playing a single player game that requires an internet connection. MP is a constant string of commands coming to a from players, data being constantly sent and received. Single player with online doesn't necessarily mean the same thing.

A perfect example is Dark Souls, playing that game with a constant internet connection makes zero difference to the overall performance of the game, it is only once a player joins in that you may have issues with things such as lag. No one will be able to tell you the difference whether you are playing online or offline in terms of performance.

If you don't have a stable connection and are worried about drops then look for a different game, so tired of people moaning about things that developers are implementing to improve the experience of their game.

Wait and see how it turns out before moaning about something, for all we know this game could still run on a cellphone hotspot connection on an edge network because it doesn't require massive data transfers and more of just a little ping to say I am still alive.

@DP While you have a point, data in SA is expensive. Just ask KF, IIRC, he doesn't have ADSL or Fibre because of cost. Some people are not fortunate enough to be able to indulge this hobby and have fast, reliable internet.

Secondly have you kept up with the Telkom LTE saga? Speeds have decreased dramatically over the past few months and they have started capping people at 350GBs.

Thirdly much of the push back to MS' plans for always online with this gen came from the US. The US, the world's last super power, inventor of the internet via DARPANet etc, etc, has shocking internet infrastructure. Most people, even in large cities like NYC, LA and San Diego do not have reliable internet services. Wait till you get to Ireland and have to deal with their internet service providers, they are terrible.

Should I only post news/links that you approve of?

Please take note when I posted the link I offered no opinion on the matter and thereafter only sort to explain the rationale of those who may have an issue.

There is nuanced difference between this and my personal opinion (which I have not offered).

What does posting news have anything to do with this?

I am talking on the response to the news, not about you directly. If you contributed to the link and gave an opinion then miscommunication may not be an issue. This is a forum surely we should be discussing things? If you are taking time out your day to find and post info surely you can give some personal input on it? If you feel my comments were directed at you instead of the people jumping on the bandwagon then again that is something for you to get over,giving personal insight into it might stop things like that in the future.

Ubisoft confirming always online even for SP campaign, check out the link:

http://www.pcgamesn.com/for-honor/for-honor-always-online

Perosnal input here

That may have been a far better post and not ended up with you feeling like your being attacked when you aren't.

The people complaining about this need to go play something else. Plenty games I want to play which I can't, but life moves on and lots of games out there to take the place of others. Stop holding back developers because what they envision doesn't fall into your bubble.

I guess we will see how many copies it will sell to see if it is an issue or not.

As far as the unsolicited advice on how to post, you where to put that

How will we see? Is there going to be a survey for every person that wants to buy the game with various reasons as to why they did or did not buy the game? Or is it just going to be one of those childish banters where the games sells badly and people go "ha, see I told you dumb developers making it online only" without any regard to the game being good or bad, or the game sells well and they never appear in the thread again? Is it one of those situations?

Some great games sold poorly this year and they didn't need to be online, so why did they sell badly?

I don't see how selling well or not will tell us anything about it needing to be online.

No need to get defensive about it, these are all different viewpoints.

You can't get defensive about something you don't really care about (hence the absence of a personal opinion).

There 'seems' to be a considerable amount of people who were excited about that game and who are now less so. This is merely an observation, mind and is based on reading the comments on a few sites. Hence my statement which you may erroneously think is my opinion or even my hope. Nothing could be further from the truth. I hope does it well.

I have often posted links/items that are of no real interest to me because I think they could be of interest to other people. This is one of them. Clearly I need to revise this.

Thank you and have a nice day.

The forums have become a little more interesting now.

Closed beta begins Jan 26th!
https://www.awx.co.za/nexus/for-honor-closed-beta-begins-on-january-26th.html

Downloaded the beta last night, nice that it's going to run for a couple days. Will see you noobs on the battle field.

Downloaded the beta as well since im still on the fence for this game.

I still have one more invitation left if anyone wants (only for PC version)

Seems the game will use the season pass in a similar way rainbow 6 siege does and imo that's a good thing.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/for-honor-season-pass-and-free-dlc-plans-announced/1100-6447501/?ftag=GSS-05-10aaa0b

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