A few days ago, we informed you about Beyond Good & Evil 2 requiring a constant online connection in order to be played. However, this online requirements was never part of the plan as last year Ubisoft was claiming that players would be able to play in offline mode.
As Ubisoft stated a few days ago, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is an online, multiplayer game with a rich co-op and seamless experience and as such, the game will only be playable with an internet connection in order to have seamless navigation, receive dynamic updates, and play with friends. However, the game will still allow players to play solo.
Still, that wasn’t what Ubisoft stated in 2017. As Michel Ancel, the game’s creative director, said during their first live stream, players were supposed to be able to play the game in offline mode.
“It’s very important to say that you can play offline if you want. You will be able to have this feeling of living a story with characters and places… but we want to invite people to play with friends.”
And then later on, Michel claimed that Ubisoft does not want to force people to be online.
“We don’t want to create a barrier and we don’t want to force people to be online. It’s just we invite them to try that, they are not forced.”
Well, it appears that one year was enough for Ubisoft to actually… you know… force people into online regardless of what the developers wanted in 2017!
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Ubisoft was claiming a lot of thigs …… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b183be0065d55a5cf64ab918a448fc73bede45efad3ef79b672a22e31db47898.jpg
LOL
It’s funny how people still give this s*** turd of a company, any benefit of any doubt.
These people are vultures, just like every other “AAA” game company. End of story.
I guess all those ubisoft cracked games where giving them headaches or something lmao
Your Hatred For John PapadopoubBLESS is showeing. It’s kinda sickening dude. You took this time to shoe-horn in your hatred for the guy and his work. Why are you here man? I’m sure Polygon, Kotaku & PC Gamer have what you need. You’re disgusting Homeboy… And i shouldnt be surprised because you seem to love the taste of Ubisofts Salchicha.
F * (Ubisoft) * C * K You… for the ‘U’ in F….
The only reason that Ubisoft could have for making this game online only is to try to push microtransactions and Ubisoft has already reported that they get more revenue from MT than they get from the actual game sales.
And they probably still think 95% of PC gamers are pirates even though they get hundreds of millions of dollars from PC gamers every year.
> they probably still think 95% of PC gamers are pirates
And that one comment from that CEO is why my last Ubisoft game was Farcry 3 and will remain so forever. Will never buy another Ubi game.
Cant we hire hackers to destroy ubisoft?
Actually its worse than that, they have said that players will contribute to the game world, do you think ubisoft will make all those planets and fill them with stuff? No the game will be updated like a mmo and players will build the game for ubisoft.
Was anything else expected from the Down Grade Kings?
lol you still believing in Ubisoft? Remember of Watch Dogs ” best graphics of thissssss gen ”
Yeah I left Ubisoft After Watch Dogs 2012 Debacle. I have no plans of returning to their Always-Online B.S world. Square Enix, Capcom, UbiSoft, EA are all dead to me. I instead turn my sites to Focus Home Interactive, CD Projekt Red & THQ Nordic. I own over 700 games and have 500 of them that i probably haven’t played yet. So i’ll be alright 🙂
And how about The Witcher 3 debacle?
Yes because The Witcher 3 and CDPR is in the same category as UbiSoft and Their B.S. GTFO Dude.
People always seem to forget about The Witcher 3 and how it got delayed so they could downgrade the graphics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW-gLVYI1uk
An upgrade lol… You are delusional.
Your Hatred For John PapadopoubBLESS is showing. It’s kinda sickening dude. You took this time to shoe-horn in your hatred for the guy and his work. Why are you here man? I’m sure Polygon, Kotaku & PC Gamer have what you need. You’re disgusting Homeboy… And i shouldn’t be surprised because you seem to love the taste of Ubisofts Salchicha.
says the troll
And I will post this again and again… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a22be3e3457c515d6ff0ecce1f03e59f9047d53add9049a76ff055ad7c043f01.jpg
I want to play the entire game as one of those bad@$$ cyber-dudes with the red visors. What’s that about?
edit: Wait, this is an Ubisoft game. Nevermind.
This game is a prequel to the first BG&E. Those guys might be Alpha Section soldiers.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e8551ebe147e8dad942e37db28d5f0de01a67696974836c573102d482345f531.png
If you don’t think that always online DRM is the scummiest thing a developer can do, watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiwnnbrV0d8
Game looks boring as hell anyway.
Ubisoft is/was always full of s**t. they want you pay them hourly for their live services and we will reach that point very soon. soon they will charge people for playing online as an option (oh looks at all these FREE UPDATEs) till it’s mandatory.
not if you dont buy their games
I don’t but they are willing to lose customers as long as they have 100% control over the remaining ones.
Considering that Ubisoft makes more revenue from junk microtransactions than they do from games sales then I wonder if they actually come out ahead financially by losing some customers as long as they more than make up for the lost revenue from microtransactions with customers that do buy the game.
When will you people learn not to trust these companies ?
i think diablo 3 said the same initially.
I mean, do you just post hypocritical comments for irony or?
I think of Ubisoft as a console oriented company and perhaps that’s why they think the way they do. Their last financial statement they reported that they get the majority of their revenue from console gamers as usual:
PS4 42%
Xbox One 23%
Switch 7%
Older Consoles 2%
Mobile 8%
PC 18%
The same here man and i have over 600 games on steam i did not play 60% of them, Man i hate online games.
ArchnophobiA no but
That’s what EA said about Anthem, but now they suggest that those who choose to play solo will not have the same quality of experience as they will lose the team dynamic. It appears that there will not be any AI controlled companions which is well and good but if it affects gameplay resulting in a half baked experience then it’s not. It’s really a shame for Beyond Good and Evil 2, the original was such a special and unique gaming experience, something that might not be true for the new game which has become something else entirely.
It’s obvious, in 2019, all the big studios will take ALL the titles they are making, and will find different ways to introduce phoqin microtransactions. Even the big single player games, they will find a way to make some extra 500 millions, by selling $20 skins and many other crap.
Always online can only mean something: servers will be tracking what items are purchased, found through normal loot, how much in-game currency the player has, etc etc.
we all know exactly WHY a game like fallout 76 was always online, right…
Ubisoft was quit ‘mild, regarding microtransactions, but each new game they release, the monetization is becoming more and more aggressive.
They are becoming so greedy, i have already heard some fans talking about ‘Jubisoft’…
Ahh, Pubissoft…..
Just like they did with fallout 76 and battlefield 5, GAMERS should stop supporting these games, and should not buy them !
I’m glad more and more youtubers, like dreamcastguy, Yongyea, aren’t forgiving this crap, and have been complaining about all these games full of microtransactions and loot boxes crap, that are infecting our favorite hobby…
The more people become aware of all the crap, the less these companies will sell.
Nobody should be buying games like fallout 76…
If Bgae2 isn’t what fans should be expecting, well… ffs, DON’T BUY IT !
Slowly but surely, these companies are preparing their dream, a 100% world with games as a service, constant updates with items , full of micro transactions… always online, the latest version replaces the previous one, which gets shut down…
I don’t want such world. DON’T BUY THESE always-online-only games!
ubisoft, ea, square, activision, they are all the same, best not to buy from any of them
Premised that i own and buy a lot of Ubisoft games i’m not sure that i will go to buy this because the problem for games like this for me is if is possible to Save the progressionstatus of missions and if is possible to pause the game o disconnect from it without to LOSE the resourcesprogression of mission earned so i will be happy to buy it and play it , if viceversa is not possible to do it i will not buy or play.
Because for example i like and love so much the game Sea Of Thieves (About Gameplay and Graphics) but sadly i can’t play it or buy it only because the publisher and developers don’t enable the players to save the progressionstatus of missions,and is not possible to pause the game too,and so when i need to stop or just pause play the game (you know… people have real life too maybe need drink water? maybe need go hospital or work?) i lose all resources or mission progress because the game delete it,and this is not nice because the game for example give me 3 map so i start to do 1 of 3 ,the islands is more far one from another require 10-15 minutes of voyage in sea and the action of retrieve store resources from barrels or sea (cannon balls,wood,etc.) to the ship require another 10-15 minutes too,so i start to do the first map,use 20 minutes for do it,BUT if i stop to play the game i lose all the resources (cannon balls,wood,etc.) that i store in the ship,i lose also the other 2 of 3 maps (that i pay) missions too just because the game logout you from the server for be “inactive” or not have a save status for people that disconnect or not have a safe place too for store the storages and remember it when the player come to play next time.
So before to buy this game i want to know :
-if is possible to save the resources in a sort of bank and if the game will remember it the next time that i play after i logout (is possible to do this in more online or server-side games for example Elite Dangerous or Ultima Online etc.)
-if is possible to pause the game (if i must to take care my real life) without be attacked from npc or players or lose resources in the game and without to get expelled from the game.
To start with, the game didn’t even exist in 2017 when they announced it. Anything you saw or heard, probably will change in the final game. Now they may be in the middle of development process.
That is funny. When I saw recent gameplay video and some talk about flying in space and melee action (with dumb enemies) and hiring “best crew” and upgrading flying bikes and open world…. so many features thrown together…. I was thinking this is going to be No Mans Sky 2 in some way. After this news I have to laugh. It seems I was right. Well, maybe even more. “BGaE2 could be No Mans Lie 2”. 🙂