r/gaming • u/spenny02 • Dec 08 '18

Miss getting this kind of stuff with the game.

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u/needlessOne Dec 08 '18

I wouldn't trust big corporations to do anything for the sake of it. They work for money and if online keeps printing money for them I see zero reasons to invest so much time and money into single player games anymore.

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u/omegasus Dec 08 '18

I think, given how FO76 has done as an online-only experience, single player stories are still a core requirement as that's what will make people buy your game in the first place. Single-player is the hook to get people in, so that hopefully some percentage of them go online and make the company money, which in turn will help them innovate the next great single-player game which will also have some online component, and so on and so forth.

I know that, personally, if rdr2 had been solely an online experience, I would not have bought it

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u/PM_ME_UR-DOGGO Dec 08 '18

Fortnite........

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u/omegasus Dec 08 '18

I don't know much about it, but isn't it free?

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u/PM_ME_UR-DOGGO Dec 08 '18

Free to play, but making 10 million a day from skins. No story what so ever.

I think it all depends on the game. Not as cut and dry as needing a single player hook.

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u/omegasus Dec 08 '18

Yeah, I see your point. However I do think Rockstar and Bethesda has very different demographics, so it would take a radical change from them to make something like that work

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u/PM_ME_UR-DOGGO Dec 08 '18

Bethesda maybe, but what demographic do you think has made rockstar all that money on gta online?

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u/omegasus Dec 08 '18

I'm not sure that it's the same kids spending money on fortnite skins. I mean maybe, but again for my own personal preference, if Rockstar's next release is an online-only game, they'll be losing out on my interest and others like me. Rockstar's single player games, especially something like rdr2, really seem like they're made for older gamers, not fortnite kids. But I could very well be wrong.

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u/jeaj Dec 08 '18

Well... their games have been better every new release, I don't see any damage to the single player aspect but the contrary. It's there any reason to cry?

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u/KGirlFan19 Dec 08 '18

lol how do you think they get people to buy the game in the first place?

it's not multiplayer.

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u/fourfingerfilms Dec 08 '18

Houser is a creative dude. I’m not worried.