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

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?