• PeachMan@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Maybe, but when people talk about “cracking” a video game, they mean removing the telemetry parts of the .exe that might phone home and tattle on you. So often a cracked version of a game will have most online features removed. If it’s a game with a single-player campaign, it might still be totally playable.

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      10 months ago

      Not on an online only AAA game.

      Otherwise I’d be playing some sort of Marvel Heroes Omega or Destiny offline.

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      10 months ago

      Perhaps, but the devs have now said that offline single player mode is a feature coming “soon after launch”, which says to me that perhaps it’s more coupled to a server than just a bit of telemetry, or they’d be far more reactive to the public response about the online requirement. Not to say that I know for sure; it’s just a gut feeling.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah we’ll only know for sure after it comes out, and after we see what the pirates are able to do. Pirating online-only games is also possible, it’s just more difficult so it’s less common. Maybe the pirates will wait until the single player mode launches.