No offline mode no buy.

Always online no buy.

Activision no buy.

Last Epoch is doing the same offline/online seperation.

Makes you think why a billion dollar company unable to do what a small indie have managed.

I don't see the point to restrict how a player wants to play the game. I already spent almost 900 hours playing Grim Dawn offline and that is not including the time when I am having Steam in offline mode, which is the majority of the time. It is closer to 1200+ hours playing time if I am online all time and I have never spent a single second on MP.

And the reasons I can think of to have players online all the time is to control how players play the game (no modding) and to have controlled product obsolence so they can pull the plug on the old game forcing players to buy the next sequel.

This post has been edited by nakal_mode: Nov 5 2019, 05:23 PM

I came to check if they improve since the previous clusterfuck.

Don't look like the case.

Not really, cosmetic microtransactions can be delivered in the form of DLCs and has been done for at least a decade, earliest game I remember have cosmetic microtransactions done this way is Dead Space 2. Tales of series have tons of cosmetics delivered this way as well.

Totally forgot about the mythical horse armour.