You can pay for online multiplayer and not have an offline option on consoles. There’s no reason to believe that paying for it would make more games playable offline.
You don’t remember pre-Steam then, because it was already headed down this path. Piracy and used copies have been the boogieman for a long time, and doing anything they can to prevent both was always the natural destination of the industry, unless more people start shopping on GOG.
What would we do without them? Use FUCKING Epic?! Lmao
With Valve and Steam? You would be paying for online multiplayer.
Atleast there would be a offline option with that. If online multiplayer was paid.
You can pay for online multiplayer and not have an offline option on consoles. There’s no reason to believe that paying for it would make more games playable offline.
Steam itself has an offline mode, even if they sell online-only games. I use it pretty often.
without them you would probably still own the games you paid for
You don’t remember pre-Steam then, because it was already headed down this path. Piracy and used copies have been the boogieman for a long time, and doing anything they can to prevent both was always the natural destination of the industry, unless more people start shopping on GOG.