I mean, I don't want to need an active Internet connection to play a single player game.
Being forced to become dependent on a external party for a single player game is stupid and dishonest. What happens if their verification servers goes down?
At least, I assume that it needs an active Internet connection to check if your logged in or not.
The "Valve good guy" points are noto just with customers, they also don't mess with publishers, otherwise you wouldn't see this much AAA publishers get in business with Valve so easily.
Epic gives literally money for free to publishers, but due to lack of "good guy points" (after all they bribe publishers: publishers are happy to get bribe money, but once you fail their demand... they shit all over you: see Randy Pitchfork's latest comments on Epic) publishers are quick to forget them (despite much more convenient cut share).
TL;DR: if Valve annoy publishers, publishers take away the "Valve good guy" point.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. I'm shocked. That a program that bypasses DRM was advertised on every fucking corner of the Internet was removed. How did Sony find out???
Origin, Ubisoft, etc. all forced us to do the same thing. Most things on the fucking internet require a free account. Yeah it’s annoying (in the 2-3 mins it takes to create one) but who the fuck lets FREE ACCOUNT CREATION stand in the way of a critically acclaimed game????
Seriously who fucking cares just play the fucking game or move on with your life jfc