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Once again, the "glorious" future/present of the modern video game industry, in action. That said, I feel really ambivalent about this particular instance of it.
As for me, on a specific, personal level, I don't give a flying fat fuck fart about whether or not shoehorned-in online/multiplayer elements in otherwise mostly offline/singleplayer games disappear in this manner, because I've always been actively antipathetic (as opposed to merely passively apathetic) about that shit to begin with, in most cases. I don't think that shit should have been there in the first place. And yet, I can still get pissed off about it going away, on general principle, because it's just one more example among many other increasingly egregious examples of the "glorious" modern video game industry utterly shitting the bed when it comes to, you know, continuing to exist in the future, at least from a games preservation perspective.
Again, to restate, no great loss with regard to these specific aspects of these particular Ubisoft things, at least for me, but I'm speaking in generalities here, because that shit is merely yet another symptom, not the disease itself.
(Putting in the "asinine anti-singleplayer trend" tag here, because the reason this shit was even included at all was because the developers/publishers didn't believe that otherwise offline/singleplayer games could stand alone without some kind of unnecessary online/multiplayer bullshit tacked on. And now they're getting rid of that aspect of it. And, again, I say that it shouldn't have been there at all, to start with. That's the only reason I'm not way more pissed off about this specific instance of the modern video game industry deciding that something has outlived its usefulness and thus will be removed forever. But I'm still pissed off enough over it to have made this post at all.)
As for me, on a specific, personal level, I don't give a flying fat fuck fart about whether or not shoehorned-in online/multiplayer elements in otherwise mostly offline/singleplayer games disappear in this manner, because I've always been actively antipathetic (as opposed to merely passively apathetic) about that shit to begin with, in most cases. I don't think that shit should have been there in the first place. And yet, I can still get pissed off about it going away, on general principle, because it's just one more example among many other increasingly egregious examples of the "glorious" modern video game industry utterly shitting the bed when it comes to, you know, continuing to exist in the future, at least from a games preservation perspective.
Again, to restate, no great loss with regard to these specific aspects of these particular Ubisoft things, at least for me, but I'm speaking in generalities here, because that shit is merely yet another symptom, not the disease itself.
(Putting in the "asinine anti-singleplayer trend" tag here, because the reason this shit was even included at all was because the developers/publishers didn't believe that otherwise offline/singleplayer games could stand alone without some kind of unnecessary online/multiplayer bullshit tacked on. And now they're getting rid of that aspect of it. And, again, I say that it shouldn't have been there at all, to start with. That's the only reason I'm not way more pissed off about this specific instance of the modern video game industry deciding that something has outlived its usefulness and thus will be removed forever. But I'm still pissed off enough over it to have made this post at all.)
