Eli5: Why do more and more single player games require wifi access even when its single player and have little to no multiplayer features?

Question

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?

In: Technology

Answer 1

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.