Offline singleplayer?

[Discombobulating]

If i'm paying 28,99 i at least don't want to be reliant on servers.

[Strelok]

Originally posted by Tictactucrac:

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PoE is expected to be fully playable solo, 100% of the content of the game can be completed as a single player. At that point offline mode should absolutely be a decent courtesy offered by the developpers.

It is an absolute shame and disgrace that full online single player games have become the industry standard.

Op, you might be interested in Last Epoch, they at least didn't insult the intelligence of players and did grant us offline mode, as opposed to industry giants like PoE and Diablo which absolutely have the money and ability to do so.

Fully agree. "Always online" is nothing more than a glorified form of rental.

I'm aware that I also don't own games capable of offline play, but at least these can't and will not be disabled remotely.

It's also immensely stupid to design a system with a single point of failure (i.e. servers / internet connection) - all games should have an offline fallback mode.

Maybe someone will make a server emulator at some point in the future. Who knows. Diablo III is fully playable offline these days if someone really wants that.

Anyway it would be preferable to pay the devs for offline support instead of relying on third party implementations.

[Yojimbo]

Originally posted by Sauska:

we didnt even own physical games. go back and read all those manuals in 80's and 90's you was still just buying a license that they could take away at any time.

That is 100% false.

[Drake]

Originally posted by Yojimbo:

Originally posted by Sauska:

we didnt even own physical games. go back and read all those manuals in 80's and 90's you was still just buying a license that they could take away at any time.

That is 100% false.

Except it's true. It has always been the case, the difference is that it is impossible to enforce with a physical copy.

Originally posted by Strelok:

Originally posted by Tictactucrac:

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PoE is expected to be fully playable solo, 100% of the content of the game can be completed as a single player. At that point offline mode should absolutely be a decent courtesy offered by the developpers.

It is an absolute shame and disgrace that full online single player games have become the industry standard.

Op, you might be interested in Last Epoch, they at least didn't insult the intelligence of players and did grant us offline mode, as opposed to industry giants like PoE and Diablo which absolutely have the money and ability to do so.

Fully agree. "Always online" is nothing more than a glorified form of rental.

I'm aware that I also don't own games capable of offline play, but at least these can't and will not be disabled remotely.

It's also immensely stupid to design a system with a single point of failure (i.e. servers / internet connection) - all games should have an offline fallback mode.

Maybe someone will make a server emulator at some point in the future. Who knows. Diablo III is fully playable offline these days if someone really wants that.

Anyway it would be preferable to pay the devs for offline support instead of relying on third party implementations.

That will never happen. The only reason there is no emulated server for POE is because all of the calculations run server side. It's the best anti cheat possible.
The client is basically just rendering stuff.

Also, GGG have already said that they have a plan in case anything happens to the company, so people will always be able to play the game.