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PC Gamers in Countries Without PSN Hit Out at Sony for Blocking Sale of Single-Player Games God of War Ragnarok and Until Dawn on Steam - IGN (www.ign.com)
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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 76 points 5 months ago

Online requirements for offline single player games is always poison.

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

I started getting upset in the 360/ps3 generation when they got rid of cheat codes. Who the hell cares if I'm cheating in a single player game? I'm not using it to beat somebody in a competition. Just disable achievements and leader boards and let me play the game I bought

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

Well, for cheat codes that's just a consequence of having more complicated software to make games. The olden days they needed to use button sequences to debug some things. After a certain point there wasn't any reason for devs to do that anymore.

But I agree, it's a bummer.

I remember ps3 being the first time I bought a game only to have an piece of paper with a download code in it. THAT was upsetting.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 months ago

I feel old. It wasnt just dev mode, Many games legit just had codes you could enter in a menu to unlock special features/modes/weapons temporarily. Hell in pokemon Gen 3 through Gen 5(?) That was how you unlocked the mystery gift menu. "Everybody happy wireless/WIFI connection".

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

I know what they are lol I grew up with an NES. The codes came about so devs could quickly do things in game.

[-] Hagdos@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

That's how it started, but then they sometimes grew to their own level of features too.

I don't believe that Age of Empires II needed shooting convertibles for debugging.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago

Hah! Get baited, now I feel younger /s

I miss fun stuff like showing off cheatcodes to friends in couch games. And couch games in general. And friends. ☹️

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

Good times, definitely.
"I used the Konami code while wearing an onion on my belt, as was the style at the time" haha

[-] SlothMama@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Literally putting another expiration date on digital content

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