• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    9 months ago

    It was an option back then. They just know nobody would have accepted it then because

    1. Not as many people had the internet, and
    2. The internet that they did have sucked ass

    There were still plenty of online-only games. They just had a damn good reason to be online. Always-online in single player isn’t needed as DRM. There are plenty of other DRM options that don’t use the internet at all or at least only check once in a while when you do have a connection to the Internet.

    • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Jesus…ok obviously it was technically an option, but it would be suicidal in a time when not everyone had Internet in their homes and those that did had unreliable Internet. Don’t be obtuse. Those limitations are largely not an issue in 2024.

      I was playing video games on my homebuilt computer in the 90s. I know exactly what it was like.