Didn’t read the article.
The idea of online only software irritates me. Of course multiplayer games have to work this way. When blizzard and Ubisoft started requiring an active connection for single player games that was just going too far.
Can you imagine sitting at your computer, doing literally anything. The screen goes strait to blue with the windows shutting down screen saying, “Internet disrupted, please contact your provider for support”.
I still occasionally lurk on reddit, just a few obscure subs like r/fedora. Lemmy is the first social platform I’ve actually commented on.
Honestly I wasn’t to interested in the whole “movement” against the API changes. Being a nerd, the underlying tech behind activitypub is what got me interested.
“…causing worry about the space sim on PC, but a God of War…”
wat?
I played the first and maybe 3rd game back in the day. You could ground boost but virtical flight was more inertia based. The footage had no real walking around, so I wonder if you’ll even have a boost bar to deal with.
I don’t preorder anymore, even a game I’m confident I’ll like. Will probably pick it up before it gets discounted though.
I guess even a chromebook has some sort of offline apps and storage.