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[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not just pausing; it's poor value for the customer to not have an offline mode for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is longevity, because their servers won't be there forever.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

never know when your internet just decides to go down for an hour. happened to me 2 nights ago and i didnt even notice until i tried looking at the dlc store (i was playing rock band 4)

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Or when EA will just break their service for a week, so you can't log in or play any of their online games.