Activision has just released Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time on PC via Battle.net and it appears that it’s always online. Even though this is a single-player game, PC gamers will need an always-online connection in order to play it.
Moreover, the game will prevent you from playing when you lose your internet connection. This is something that may frustrate a lot of PC gamers as there is literally no way to play this game in Offline Mode.
This should not of course surprise us as most of Activision’s latest PC games (that are available on Battle.net) are always online. My guess is that most future Battle.net releases will require a constant Internet connection. Thankfully, though, Diablo 2 Resurrected will have an Offline Mode.
Now in case you’re wondering, Activision most likely did this in order to prevent piracy. And, to be honest, this may work. After all, the latest Call of Duty games have not been cracked yet.
Activision has not provided us with a review code for this game. As such, our PC Performance Analysis will be slightly delayed.
Stay tuned for more!
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Always online = always avoid
i dont even care about this game, but holy crap man. There was an article saying that battleborn will be shut down and that means you cant play the singleplayer either. So after this and darkspore i refuse to buy always online games.
battleborn is already shut down and unplayable
As every game should be. Pirates and hardcore steam shills should never enjoy or illegally obtain free content when the total development time exceeds hundred thousand hours.
Hello can you tell me how to play darkspore?
Forget about the awful games and simply buy a 6 month subscription for World of Warcraft.
RIP Voksi 🙁
Don’t really care about it being always online since most games are one and done and they work that single time I care to play them which is also when I buy them dirt cheap like a rental. But it being only available through battle dot net means I won’t even pick it up ever in a sale. MEH!
This man breathes through his mouth
Is that a diss or obvious statement?
Wow, I guess I’ll be getting this used on PS4 :shrug:
Boooooo
This is why I support piracy.
wow.. I mean WOW! What will be next? Super mario pc port always online ??
And its not on steam? lol ok
Always online SP battlenet is more cancer than denuvo
And then there are people saying Epic Games is worse lmao, i predicted this. I don’t expect a lot of sales for a has been b tier mascot on the PC platform, but ActiBlizzard proved time and again that they can slap always online DRM without much consequences, they are the best argument in favor of intrusive drm.
Best hope for pirates now is to emulate those games like the recent Diablo 3 on Switch.
you can also play diablo 3 on rpcs3.
The offline Switch version of this game would also appear in PC just like Crash Team Racing Nitro fueled, don t worry… We are PC gamers, if they didnt wanted our money so be it, we will find our way around
There is a Switch version of this game?
It actually is.
So when you lose your internet connection the game becomes Crashed Bandicoot, lol
LMFAO, there he is. ??? Delivering pure gold as usual.
Cool, a single player MMO now. <----- ???
Bask in the results, of the era of stupidity we’ve been living through the past decade. Bask in all its glory.
This is still a discussion in 2021? Really? Who doesn’t have internet? Why are we even wasting our time talking about this?
2021… Who doesn’t have internet?
2021… Internet is not free…
Are we playing captain obvious or something?
Internet connection quality and speed are spotty in different states of the US which is supposed to be this shining example of all that is good and technically progressive.
I’m very much aware I do IT for a living. And to top that off I’ve never seen someone who didn’t have an internet capable of staying online. So we now grasping at straws or something?
Did working in IT meant your opinion more valuable than other ? I dont think so eventhough Im also work on IT, but I still saw people didnt have internet connection and depends on mobile data connection due to no fiber in their neghbourhood, and sadly, Im one of those people
So you’re complaining the company doesn’t support the 1%? Or .005%?
Dude, first off US is not the only country in the world and secondly Internet connection is not great throughout even all of the States.
Always online in singleplayer games is as asinine as microtransactions in SP games. Both have no place in them. Trying to negate piracy this way they actually encourage it.
Why a single player game would require internet to launch it? there’s no justification for it.
It can be very annoying because of 2 things for me, my inet provider does this IP refresh every few hours randomly which will close the game for me in this case and the other problem is the game is not easy at all collecting everything before it gets disconnected
Look… Look… A game with expiration date.
Thank you Activision for saving me another 60$
Blizzard ?? Activision .. ??? Who the hell are they , they didnt spew PC game anymore in recent years other than rehashing content of the same game, can they be considered relevant anymore that they set their own store confdently … nah … thats fine for me if they didnt want my money
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b-net price is still too pricey. b-net is still much worse than epic or uplay..
Always online = always sucks
Always online + BattleNet only = they can shove it so deep in their f*cking a$$…
“After all, the latest Call of Duty games have not been cracked yet”
Ofc since 99% content in those games are MP oriented
Not only its an Activision game.. but also always online?
HARDD SKIPP!!
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…and now it’s apparently cracked. That’s curious.
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Annnd.. it’s cracked