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On the one hand, the fact that the response to this poll is, so far, an overwhelming "Yes" is good news.
On the other hand, the fact that they're even putting this up as a poll at all, rather than just straight up going ahead and doing that to begin with, without needing to gauge approval or whatever, is utterly ridiculous, at least to me. Yes, obviously, all content for a game should be available in said game's offline mode, without being behind an additional paywall or whatever. That should be a given. The fact that it apparently is not a given just goes to show you, once more, how far the video game industry as a whole has fallen in recent years. Also, I kind of wish I could reach through my computer screen and wring the necks of the currently 3.4% who voted "No" in this poll.
But then, of course, there are singleplayer games out there already that don't even have offline modes to begin with, which is even more idiotic, but then, I've already ranted about such games quite a bit, so I'll just stop there.
On the other hand, the fact that they're even putting this up as a poll at all, rather than just straight up going ahead and doing that to begin with, without needing to gauge approval or whatever, is utterly ridiculous, at least to me. Yes, obviously, all content for a game should be available in said game's offline mode, without being behind an additional paywall or whatever. That should be a given. The fact that it apparently is not a given just goes to show you, once more, how far the video game industry as a whole has fallen in recent years. Also, I kind of wish I could reach through my computer screen and wring the necks of the currently 3.4% who voted "No" in this poll.
But then, of course, there are singleplayer games out there already that don't even have offline modes to begin with, which is even more idiotic, but then, I've already ranted about such games quite a bit, so I'll just stop there.
