Is the Offline Mode just a Game Demo?

[Spartata]

In offline mode, you can't start a custom league or buy new cosmetic pieces. Compared with online mode, it is incomplete. I don't think we can get any blood pass items such as new factions in offline games since the season rewards are bound to online accounts. I wonder if the developers intend to turn BB3 into a complete online game and make the offline mode a game demo?

[Little Snot]

Im sad to hear all of this. As you, im a offline player, and when i realized that the developers “forgot” about the Vs AI community (stupid AI, team customization monetized, the need to grind all the teams etc) i… was sad. But really sad. Because with all of this “Blood Pass” ♥♥♥♥ is just so obvius that they want Blood Bowl 3 to be a multiplayer game, so yes, we can’t expect so much offline content. (Oh, the campaign doesn’t even work for me. Great)

[Jaina]

Agreed entirely.

After the devs throwing around quotes like this:

"Our goal is to reward everyone for playing Blood Bowl the way they want to. All the main game modes (campaign, VS AI, official or private competitions, etc.) will allow you to gain Blood Pass XP, as all regular Blood Bowl actions in matches (passing, blocking, dodging, scoring) will grant Blood Pass XP."

it's extremely disappointing to learn that, no, we can't be rewarded for playing the way we want.

We can't even play the way we want in the first place, with the three possible use cases for offline play all being non-functional right now:

Campaign - Intended to work offline, but currently bugged.
Vs AI League - Apparently intended to be online only?
Hotseat League - Completely denied as a game feature, online or off.

It's one thing for a game to simply prioritise multiplayer. It's another when it seems to go out of its way to tell solo players to just go away and stop even bothering to hope for the most basic functionality.

Would it really be so terrible if they just let us help fund their game by buying overpriced cosmetics purely to play against ourselves and the AI with?

[Naughty Mouse]

Bloodbowl Chaos, the original blood bowl came with 23 races, hehe
Now 9. hehe

[Rokchewer]

yeah..not sure why offline is so neutered. I have no desire to do mulitplayer games/leagues. Just let me earn/buy my goodies for offline and let me make a custom league/campaign that doesnt suck..sigh

[_oBSOLEte_]

Offline is neutered like in any live service because they dont want people editing their save and tampering the game.

Monetization is based on something modders are doing as a hobby since decades.

It's also a killswitch for the devs or Game Workshop. Dawn of War 1 is still played this day with mods and multiplayer, community completely owns the game.

[Konstantin]

Originally posted by Naughty Mouse:

Bloodbowl Chaos, the original blood bowl came with 23 races, hehe
Now 9. hehe

To be fair Chaos Edition whas the fourth iteration of the game that started in a time when DLCs where unheard of. Blood Bowl originally started with 8 races, then you could get 9 Races by buying Blood Bowl Dark Elf Edition which whas -50% in there store if you proofed to own Blood Bowl too. Then there whas the Legendary Edition which where -30% for owners of one of the previous editions and then you where allowed to buy the whole game again once Chaos Edition came out for three more races and another Single Player Mode.