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Originally Posted by csThor
Honestly: No game developer or publisher decides when my own PC has to be online. I may grant them the right to check the validity of my copy after installing it (or maybe once a month, after asking me for my permission to do so), but I will absolutely not tolerate a game which tries to force me to stay connected to some online server all the time. Because that, in my opinion, is the stealthy attempt to introduce pay-to-play even for offline games and I will most certainly not stuff my hard-earned € down some publisher's throat (not to mention that the marketing department would surely like to bombard me with tailor-made spam mails).
If SoW follows this trend then I have to bear the pain and not purchase it for I absolutely refuse to sign away my own rights as customer and PC admin.
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I share your opinion. At release day with online requirement for single player, I would still buy it but only if it was very inexpensive (say 7€). Without that crap, around €50. More if maps, box etc. More restrictions & surveillance = value (and willingness to buy) drops a lot. I skipped Rise of Flight because of the online requirement, but when they removed it I wasn't interested enough anymore with SoW around the corner. But it is possible I will revisit it if SoW turns out to have the same problem.
Animals - Interesting. May add a sense of scale, and of a living breathing world where it isn't just aircraft and buildings etc. I don't care if we can't shoot them. But perhaps to be able to crash into them somehow when ditching.. Oh whatever, as long as they run away from us.