Can i play this on offline mode?

[mimiko857]

Can i play this on offline mode? like no players can be meet , i'll try playing the game offline while downloading a movie. if that's possible

[Acidic__Thought]

Negative. It’s an online only game. You only see players in hubs though, never randomly in the game world.

[Captain of the 4th Company]

You need to be online to log into Uplay to play. But you need to play with others.

[Secret Squirrel]

Which basically means that if the day ever comes that steam or ubi face the demise that the once thought to be "forever" dominant MS Games for Windows Live service did, then we are all out of luck across many -- if not most of our games. Not something I worry too much about, but I have been impacted by a game shutdown due to lack of players/revenue.

[it's a gabe]

Online games, maybe. I believe it'll still be possible to play single player games through Steam and Uplay if they ever shut down. If not, I can see developers who care an ounce to try and provide standalone copies (maybe through GOG) for the games that become unavailable that way.

But realistically, I'd say we're much closer to this game shutting down than we are of Steam and Uplay shutting down. I'm not familiar with how Ubisoft handles online games after a sequel comes out, but it's very clear for anyone who's playing TD now that they don't care about it anymore. At all. Keeping the servers up is mostly a favor and a way to get people to buy it when it goes on sale (after all, some money is better than no money at all). The premium shop is worse now than it was before TD2, some items continue to be awfully overpriced, and it seems we won't be getting global events anytime soon.

What we could hope for (which is unlikely) is for Massive to add a few QOL improvements to make this game playable 100% solo, such as NPC party members that are as competent as hunters. It's not impossible. If Square Enix could add the Trust system to FFXI years after they lost most of the development kits used to develop that game, then it's perfectly possible for Massive to do the same here. Not easy, not profitable (though it must be in the long run as they can keep on selling the game after the servers are shut down), but possible.

[Captain of the 4th Company]

Originally posted by unnecesaurus:

Online games, maybe. I believe it'll still be possible to play single player games through Steam and Uplay if they ever shut down. If not, I can see developers who care an ounce to try and provide standalone copies (maybe through GOG) for the games that become unavailable that way.

But realistically, I'd say we're much closer to this game shutting down than we are of Steam and Uplay shutting down. I'm not familiar with how Ubisoft handles online games after a sequel comes out, but it's very clear for anyone who's playing TD now that they don't care about it anymore. At all. Keeping the servers up is mostly a favor and a way to get people to buy it when it goes on sale (after all, some money is better than no money at all). The premium shop is worse now than it was before TD2, some items continue to be awfully overpriced, and it seems we won't be getting global events anytime soon.

What we could hope for (which is unlikely) is for Massive to add a few QOL improvements to make this game playable 100% solo, such as NPC party members that are as competent as hunters. It's not impossible. If Square Enix could add the Trust system to FFXI years after they lost most of the development kits used to develop that game, then it's perfectly possible for Massive to do the same here. Not easy, not profitable (though it must be in the long run as they can keep on selling the game after the servers are shut down), but possible.

Depends on the game. The Division being tied to servers and Uplay means you lose the ability to play online when they disconnect tje servers and may lose tbe game entirely if Uplay goes offline. There have been companies that release patches to allow offline play but if Ubisoft is going down (in a way that they would have to shutdown Uplay) then the least of their worries will be providing a patch to let us play offline.

[it's a gabe]

Well Uplay being shut down isn't as close a reality as the actual game shutting down.

Also, it's quite possible that people would try and host private servers if it ever came to either point (the game or Uplay shutting down). Not saying it's legal, not saying they should, not saying it would be easy to emulate and maintain, but it would happen. There are private servers for PSO and PSU and though Clementine (PSU's) still needs work, it sure is more playable than, say, Matrix Online. If there's enough passion, fans will keep this game alive even if it goes against the law or something.

But anyway, we should be more worried about the actual game shutting down if we care about it at all, cuz that's much closer to actually happening than Ubisoft magically not existing overnight. They could add features which make the game playable offline, but *would* they?

[Strelok]

Lack of an offline mode is why I didn't buy the game unfortunately.

Not because I'm not always online, but because the game is entirely dependent on remote servers to run. Remote servers that can be shut down at any time without my consent. I went through this several times with other games were developers just shut down the servers and bricked our games.

The game seems fun and I would have bought it if the single player would have worked also offline.

Games used to be like vinyl music records. Timeless.

"Always online" games have an expiration date stamped on them and this in my opinion makes them very bad deals for us, the customers.

My opinion of course.

[it's a gabe]

The way I see it, this was never meant to be a single player game, even though you can solo a lot of the content. Think of it as PSO2 or Warframe, which are also always online (the big difference being that those two are F2P). I do miss the good ol' days of PSO and PSU and their respective offline modes. I actually have PSU installed right now and I didn't bother to set up the private server yet. Just been going through offline mode casually to scratch that Phantasy Star itch.

Right now, I think the better deal is the sequel. New players will have trouble matchmaking for a lot of stuff and people who don't have a 6-piece classified set yet will struggle getting one either cuz of the dwindling community or because they're not strong enough to solo stuff such as Pier 93. The sequel, because it's brand new and considered a superior product in many ways, has a better chance of survivor. If Ubisoft is smart, they won't issue The Division 3 any time for the next five or six years, instead adding as much as they can to what they have now.

I'd recommend getting this game when it goes on sale for a stupid discount, though. Not too long ago, the base game was about $5. It's not a bad game at all, especially for that price. If anyone's considering getting this at full price, go for the sequel instead—or invest in another looter RPG instead.

[Firestar001]

Originally posted by Strelok:

Lack of an offline mode is why I didn't buy the game unfortunately.

Not because I'm not always online, but because the game is entirely dependent on remote servers to run. Remote servers that can be shut down at any time without my consent. I went through this several times with other games were developers just shut down the servers and bricked our games.

The game seems fun and I would have bought it if the single player would have worked also offline.

Games used to be like vinyl music records. Timeless.

"Always online" games have an expiration date stamped on them and this in my opinion makes them very bad deals for us, the customers.

My opinion of course.

What absolutely SUCKS is The Division is PRACTICALLY a single-player game in of itself.

[it's a gabe]

But I mean, it was designed as a multiplayer game. I guess people often perceive it as a single player game cuz of the campaign, which isn't even that great.

[garret]

Dont venture into the dark zone