Redfall Online Requirement May Be Removed [Mar 22, 2023, 11:10 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Developer Arkane says "we listen" in response to complaints following the
recent
reveleation that Redfall will require an online connection, even for
the single-player campaign. Game director Harvey Smith discusses the controversy
with Eurogamer, saying he's "not supposed to promise anything," but that the
company is "looking into" the online requirement, and is "working actively
toward fixing that in the future." The conversation addresses accusations that this was to sell more stuff, but Harvey says the game will have no store and no
microtransactions. He explains the online requirement is intended to collect
metrics on the player experience:
So why be online if you're not with other people? Smith said the game was designed that way to better help Arkane understand how people were playing it, and when they got into difficulty.
"It allows us to do some accessibility stuff," Smith said. "It allows us for telemetry, like - if everybody's falling off ladders and dying, holy shit that shows up. And so we can go and tweak the ladder code. There are reasons we set out to do that that are not insidious."
The telemetry excuse is some extremely weak ass weird shit. As someone already said, they could have easily made that an opt-in (not opt-out!) choice when first launching the game or somewhere in the settings menu.
Oh well, 'tis another good reason to give this game a hard pass - for now, at least. If the reviews are unanimously positive, I might check it out again when the GOTY goes on sale for $9.99 one fine day. Until then: Fuck you and your spyware, Arkane.
Oh well, 'tis another good reason to give this game a hard pass - for now, at least. If the reviews are unanimously positive, I might check it out again when the GOTY goes on sale for $9.99 one fine day. Until then: Fuck you and your spyware, Arkane.
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