• Kaldo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What are you basing this definition on? A rudimentary google search for a definition gives more than one answer and yet none of them have “always online” as a requirement for something to be live-service.

    Hitman 3 for example is an example of a singleplayer live-service game, Paradox games like Stellaris are basically that as well, and Minecraft and NMS are often used as examples too. Nobody claimed that a game needs to be online to be updated, that’s ridiculous, so not sure who was that clarification meant for.

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      1 year ago

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_as_a_service

      “In the video game industry, games as a service (GaaS) represents providing video games or game content on a continuing revenue model, similar to software as a service.
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      Games released under the GaaS model typically receive a long or indefinite stream of monetized new content over time to encourage players to continue paying to support the game. This often leads to games that work under a GaaS model to be called “living games”, “live games”, or “live service games” since they continually change with these updates.”

      GaaS monetization can’t be achieved without a central online service. Even with Hitman 3 a lot of content is locked behind the online requirement.

      You can bend the definition as much as you want but this is what most people mean by" live service games".

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        1 year ago

        Your quotes just support my statement, the defining points are continued revenue and updates, not an always online requirement.

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        Where in there does it say “always online”?

        Connecting to the internet and downloading new content when you are online doesn’t mean the game doesn’t work offline.