@sun that's not unusual. EA claimed sim city couldn't run offline, total biscuit made an ass of himself trying to downplay that. "say what you want about this it really works!!" it had been cracked an hour before he published, and the crack was basically "online = no" in the startup ini file.

the only thing ea cloud did was store saves but they tried to muddy the waters about it maybe doing cloud compute to make up for slow computers (it did not, they lobotomized the city model instead)

escape from tarkov is another scam artist for the ball crushers. they said buy the lifetime package and get all updates. then they said pve mode "isn't dlc" because "we wanted it not to be that" and then pivoted to "actually the pve mode costs too much in server fees" so they are charging a paid upgrade for something a free mod more or less did for them already.

like idk i just don't play games (sadly did buy EFT but, rip.) made by shitheads.