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So I'm overseas from (Canada) for work and the internet here is.. not great. Guess I won't be playing this :(

You're in canada, not North Korea.

I'm not surprised but still that really sucks.

You could play Rivals offline. Why not this one? Is the game actually just on a server like an MMO?

If the internet discovers there is no good reason for this (*cough* Sim City *cough*) then EA better be prepared for another firesale.

Kind of weird decision too considering NFS I believe is really huge in many "secondary" gaming markets like Brazil, Middle-East, etc. And yeah I know they have internet there but shit we barely have good internet here. I guess fuck em amirite?

Why do they keep trying this?

Didn't they close down NFS World recently? Maybe they closed that down partially to make room for this because this is some pseudo-MMO...thing. I dunno, I'll withhold judgement until we find out what the fuck this thing actually is, but given the whole SimCity clusterfuck, I'm already a little worried.

@baillie: Dude said he was overseas..

Definitely shitty news imo.

Well, I suppose this means they won't just go back to individual levels and whatnot. More open worlds, it is.

Fuck any racing game that does not allow you to pause in single player.

Pretty much fuck any game that doesn't allow you to pause in single player. It's 2015, people have lives. Losing a half-hour worth of points and progress because I have to answer the fucking door is horseshit and you know it.

I understand the outrage, but I think there's potential to do something cool with a community-driven online-focused racing game. That being said though, there's been plenty of failed attempts at it in recent years, so I'll believe it when I see it.

@brodehouse: I take it you don't like Dark Souls?

I wouldn't buy any game that requires an internet connection to start. It's more acceptable for multiplayer but I still think we should be able to start it up and get to the menus.

Well, good to know EA learned their lesson from Sim City.

I have internet, and it is always on. So...

My internet is bad! Yay!

The consoles lose a lot of functionality without the internet at this point. It's not great, but fuck it. Whatever.

Bummed out by this. I mean, I guess. My life's been alright without NFS in it, though I was looking forward to seeing what's up with this one. Racing games are my relax+podcast things generally, so the inability to pause Rivals was what killed it for me more than anything. Invasions too, but I hear you could turn those off...

Roundabout way of saying that if The Need for Speed is like Rivals in this way, I probably won't play it. Also always online rabble rabble.

You know what, for Dark Souls maybe I get it. You're wandering into a hostile, scary world. There's no breaks. That's fair.

But broad, action-based racing games? That's messed up. You need to be able to pause in that because there is absolutely no point at any time during a race when you can look away from the television for even a second. A second is death in any racing game.

Cool. Who gives a crap.

Very much how I feel, I wont lose my shit until I know shit is worth losing.
Well, the be fair, I wont lose my shit, I just know I wont be buying it if that's the case.
Plus it's so early right now, who knows, maybe the game will look like shit anyways and no one will care.

Aside from not being able to play offline on a console, I really don't care one way or another. My PC is always connected to the internet and I pay for the highest speed for a reason.

Yep, EA just keeps digging themselves into that hole....

This is not news. We live in a world where consoles 'require' a constant internet connection. I say that with a qualifier. You can play these consoles without a connection but the machine doesn't quite know what to do with itself.

good thing i have always plug in intertron for world webwide accessation!

e: i mean look at my seething outrage. time for a class action lawsuit! *goes back to Hatred*

The required Internet connection for Sim City isn't what ruined that game it was the poor design choices and everything being broken that ruined that game. In fact if their whole connectiveness thing worked like they said it would, the game could have been amazing.

Honestly, even if your internet is fine there's plenty of cases where the company servers are having issues, from launch day load and stability issues (SimCity) to the regular DDOS campaigns that spring up on a whim (PSN, Xbox Live, Blizzard). This feels like EA pushing more of a corporate policy on everything they can though, same with how common micro-transactions are in every product they put out now. I feel like every game with any semblance of multiplayer from them is going to at least try and put this in somehow.

I mean that I'm a Canadian currently NOT living in Canada but overseas for work, and the internet here, unlike in Canada, is unreliable and not the best.

@jthom252: Yup. I was still home when Destiny came out, and even when I had a top of the line connection, the Destiny servers were (for the first couple weeks) just plain AWFUL in my experience.

I only get outraged over games that are 2 years or more away from release.

This game is out this year, if the wiki page is to be believed

@maginnovision: I think it has more to do with people wanting to play single player games on their own terms. Unless this has no single player whatsoever then what's the point of it? If it's all multiplayer all the time then fine, but if it has single player then let me play whenever I want whether your severs are shit or my internet dies. If this comes out and people aren't able to even get to menus then it's going to crash and burn, so I hope they are making sure that this won't be on fire like some previous EA online experiences.

can they release it at the same time as ac:syndicate so it could provide some sort of smokescreen?

Modern videogames.

My lifestyle requires a constant internet connection.

people who want to play video games???

what kind of question is this seriously

YEAH WELL I NEVER LEARNED HOW TO READ PROPERLY DUDE. Such a jerk.

:(

So you cant play at all without internet? what if I'm going though an outage or have a generally shitty connection? I have both alot of the time.

I play games by myself and don't want to be connected to other people. Wont be playing this.