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[Draugoth]

Reddit user Interesting-Squash81 received their physical PS5 copy of the game early, but when they tried to play the game they got an image simply showing the game’s logo and its December 7, 2023 release date. The user then tried to change the date and time on their console and launch the game offline, but they were still shown the same image.

It appears that the game won’t continue until it’s been verified online – perhaps requiring a day one patch, or simply just performing an online check to see if the release date has passed.



This is reinforced by a small message on the front of the game’s final box art, which reads: “Internet required to install the game.” This message reportedly wasn’t on the early box art shown during the pre-order process.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

People buy these garbage Avatar games? It always seemed to be just another lame movie/game cash in attempt to me.

 

[King Dazzar]

Review embargo lifts tomorrow 6th Dec apparently.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[shaddam]

Peak stupidity

 

[Games of Today]

People buy these garbage Avatar games? It always seemed to be just another lame movie/game cash in attempt to me.

It could be decent. Especially since it's in the snowdrop engine. The audio of the jungle definitely caught my attention.

Not a fan of third person flying though.

 

[Xtib81]

Watch the critics not even mention it.

 

[U n i o n 0015]

Incredible, hundreds of years in the future and on distant alien worlds, the colored-haired harpy trope that only appeared in the last 10 years still exists.

 

[Senua]

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I didn't realize Ubisoft could sink even lower. They're also saying this on the game's store page: https://store.ubisoft.com/us/avatar--frontiers-of-pandora/60c30ca40d253c1914049e93.html?lang=en_US

Activation: CREATION OF A UBISOFT ACCOUNT REQUIRED TO PLAY THIS GAME; INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED TO DOWNLOAD PATCHES & LAUNCH THE GAME, ACCESS ONLINE FEATURES AND UNLOCK ADDITIONAL CONTENT. OFFLINE MODE AVAILABLE AFTER MANDATORY DAY 1 PATCH DOWNLOAD.

Fuck this company!

 

[MiguelItUp]

What the critics not even mention it.

Yeah, I wish this would be called out more in reviews or something. Maybe then we'd see it slow down a bit, or at least one could hope.

Shame that this continues to be a standard practice, but unfortunately not surprising.

 

[brian0057]

 

[Lokaum D+]

 

[Kuranghi]

Imagine the Na'vi fucking the purple haired woman, not enough lube and/or poppers in the world

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Nice, so sometime in the future the game won't work because it will require authentication from the server. Ubisoft being ubisoft again... And then they wonder why pirates want to crack their games...

 

[SantaC]

Tbh, whose console isnt online connected year 2023?

 

[LordCBH]

That’s fucking stupid.

 

[Portugeezer]

Wait, I didn't know this was a MMO/shared world game. Is it?

No excuse if not.

 

[Robb]

Activation: CREATION OF A UBISOFT ACCOUNT REQUIRED TO PLAY THIS GAME; INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED TO DOWNLOAD PATCHES & LAUNCH THE GAME, ACCESS ONLINE FEATURES AND UNLOCK ADDITIONAL CONTENT. OFFLINE MODE AVAILABLE AFTER MANDATORY DAY 1 PATCH DOWNLOAD.

The “creation of [publisher specific account]” requirement alone is enough to just make me skip any game.

 

[lughnasadh123]

It's a little funny hearing the biggest complaints about this from the people less likely to purchase it anyways.

 

[mrcroket]

Serious question, why are people hypeing for yet another game that will follow the ubisoft formula? Overloaded map, watchtowers, repetitive missions, collectibles on every corner and a story of revolution against an enemy that controls the map/world. 200 hours completing repetitive tasks.

 

[SmokedMeat]

The physical future

 

[StereoVsn]

Trash game is apparently even more trash. I am now super apprehensive around AC Red next year.

 

[Shubh_C63]

People buy these garbage Avatar games? It always seemed to be just another lame movie/game cash in attempt to me.

What other lame Avatar game have you played made be Massive ?

 

[Paulistano]

I didn't realize Ubisoft could sink even lower. They're also saying this on the game's store page: https://store.ubisoft.com/us/avatar--frontiers-of-pandora/60c30ca40d253c1914049e93.html?lang=en_US


Fuck this company!

I tried to play Far Cry 6 on my Ps5 and it asked for uplay account I just deleted it wanted to see how was the game... I just gave up, and my plus expired, at this point pirates don't even need to deal with this shit.

 

[Guilty_AI]

The physical future

I always warn people that physical games won't save them from their feared digital future. I expect more and more games on disc doing things like this in the future.

 

[Tommi84]

At this point pirates don't even need to deal with this shit.

Yeah, back in the days of movies mostly on dvd and not streamed/downloaded, when you bought or rented a movie, first 5minutes were like 'piracy is a crime!', 'you wouldn't steal a car?' and so on. While pirated ones were not having any of these

 

[Chuck Berry]

God bless Rockstar coming in to save us from this filth. Good fucking lord its about time.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I was going to buy it as a launch title... but with this news, thank you for changing my mind.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Yeah, this kind of shit is not going away.

Unless you guys here boycott games that do this online required stuff. I hear boycotts totally work.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Yeah, this kind of shit is not going away.

Unless you guys here boycott games that do this online required stuff. I hear boycotts totally work.

I never buy anything that enforces online connection to be played. Its not even a boycott, just personal caution.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Thanks for the heads up, now I'm definitely not buying it.

Edit: Since this seems to derail into another physical vs digital thread, the only way to retain somewhat of a reasonable consumer friendly environment is to play these games on a PC.

 

[Fake]

Easy no.

 

[Ben87fr]

Man i just bought The Callisto Protocol on disk and i had to download more than half the game, what's new ?

 

[Sleepwalker]

I didn't realize Ubisoft could sink even lower. They're also saying this on the game's store page: https://store.ubisoft.com/us/avatar--frontiers-of-pandora/60c30ca40d253c1914049e93.html?lang=en_US


Fuck this company!

Skipping avatar noty

 

[Gamezone]

More and more physical games are doing this dumb shit. It makes consoles less relevant.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

 

[kruis]

More and more physical games are doing this dumb shit. It makes consoles less relevant.

Consoles are irrelevant to PC you mean? A platform where nobody except collectors buy physical copies and everybody gladly accepts the situation that you can't run the game before the official launch date/time and even if you've pre-installed the game, there'll be a day one patch.

 

[Power Pro]

Tbh, whose console isnt online connected year 2023?

 

[Ma-Yuan]

Great one game less to worry about

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Wasn't getting it anyway, but wow, fuck modern gaming with this nonsense.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Wait, is this a single player game requiring an account creation? What the actual fuck?

 

[Sirolf]

Soo… Not anymore.. I’m ingame for one hour and half.. It’s very very beautiful at least
I’m on PS5 BTW

 

[Fake]

Tbh, whose console isnt online connected year 2023?

Until you got banned from playstation network pal.

 

[Gamezone]

Consoles are irrelevant to PC you mean? A platform where nobody except collectors buy physical copies and everybody gladly accepts the situation that you can't run the game before the official and even if you've pre-installed the game, there'll be a day one patch.

If I'm forced to digital, I sure won't be doing it on consoles.

 

[angrod14]

We're slowly reaching the point the PC market reached before completely dropping physical media. AAA games releasing digital-only (Alan Wake 2), physical releases either launching in two discs because of the size (Forbidden West) or requiring an online connection/download (GT7, Star Wars, and now this).

I personally don't think the pro consumer answer is ''buy physical". People is moving on from that, and there are valid reasons. What we need is better legislation and regulations for these companies.

I'm personally not going back to discs. I have nothing against them but I'm past that whole collecting and selling thing. Not worth it to me.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Fucking eh, they need to start patenting business behaviors, because this shit can only be described as Ubisoft.

 

[TVexperto]

God bless Rockstar coming in to save us from this filth. Good fucking lord its about time.

Finally an an atractive women again in a video game...feels like those last few years we really only got some work purple bullshit

 

[adamsapple]

So like Jedi Survivor, mandatory online for a single player game? *

* for completing installation at least.

 

[Jimmy_liv]

Jesus, next thing people will be complaining that you need electricity or a TV to play the game!