Offline mode essential!

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Blacksheep1775 wrote:

I think some people are over thinking it in terms of "dupers" and "hackers"... It would work perfectly well if they essentially created a stand alone game that connects to an "update only" server and has no option to play online using any of the offline characters because it would be for all intents and purposes, a separate game.

It matters because making an offline version means that version includes all the server-side only code to generate items, handle damage, etc. And that means people can use the offline version to work out how to hack the online servers.

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Blacksheep1775 wrote:

Who cares if someone "hacks" their own offline game that has no ability to connect to the online servers?

Everyone should care if someone hacks an offline version of the game, because doing so will teach them how to hack/exploit the online version.

By keeping the game online-only, no-one ever gets access to any of that code to try anything with.