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

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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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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.

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