Pretty much self explanatory but just curious seeing as how growing up I played a lot of stylized single player games on mobile and compare that to now where even tho the games are part of the same genre they now require wifi?
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Could be to serve ads, could be for antipiracy, could be to harvest user data, could be all 3 combined. It would depend on the game. Which games are you thinking of?
It’s too force you have an online account to harvest your private info. The same how Microsoft forces you to have an online account during windows installation, even though you don’t need WiFi to login to local windows account. It’s forced for the “experience” but there is no opt-out unless you do CMD command prompt hacks.
It’s because most games we ‘buy’ these days are only leased to us. Which means they can deactivate the product at any time. It’s already happened with a bunch of different games and will keep on happening.
Look at Helldivers 2. Delisted now in over 100 countries because Sony’s hoping to get players to buy more games through their platform instead of steam.
What they’re doing is *killing* a monster game because they’re greedy.
As [the meme](https://www.instagram.com/code_n_run/p/C5I5ad5N3Li/) goes, “Because fuck you, that’s why”.
This shit needs to be regulated. As soon as a single-player is out and I paid for it fair and square, I must have full access to it for as long as I have compatible hardware, even after 50 years. Otherwise it’s just encouraging piracy which I’m strongly against.
I’m a programmer and in this software industry up to now, it always requires a software to talk to a server for many reasons. For example, configuration, checking for advertising and product updates. Dozens of other things or tracking user behavior . The tracking here is not with bad intentions but they want to know what part of the game you are enjoying the most
Some games will deliver content updates themselves.
Some games will have server-side configuration.
Some games want to play ads.
If single player game have paid progression, game developer doesn’t want you to cheat around paying for it, so they put some of the logic on their server.
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