Need for Speed Will Require an Online Connection

[vito100]

You have to be connected to Destiny at all times and that game is Highly Successful

[seafoamgreen]

You dont even really own the game then. More like a long term rental whenever they feel like cutting it off.

Anyone remember DIVX? That's the business model. Most people's video game systems are always online anyway so it won't go away unless people stop buying games that can't be played at all without server support.

[PrettyT11]

Re: Need for Speed Will Require an Online Connection

You guys should probably do your homework -- Need for Speed Rivals was a single-player game that was "always online," in that you shared a session with other players (depending on your settings). You could pretty much ignore the online component if you wanted to by joining a private session by yourself, by ignoring the other players (which was possible because of the size of the map), or by declining their competition requests. This could just be an extension of that on a slightly bigger scale.

The difference is that you could actually play rivals without being connected online. With this game from what they are saying you can't. That is a huge difference