TheRealNeenja

Seriously, early on this company literally deployed a mass MITM attack against their entire userbase.

Any company that pulls some shit like that is just going to do it again whenever they think they can get away with it.

And you should have the option to do so.

But that doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t have the option to play offline if they so choose.

Steam, as well as numerous other marketplaces, have already proven the piracy boogeyman was nonsense.

The overwhelming majority of customers are happy to pay for games as long as it’s not a giant pain in the ass to do so. The people that pirate games either:

1. Lack the money to buy the game in the first place in their budget
2. Were motivated by the act of piracy itself

Neither were actually going to pay for the game in the first place. And with the significant increase in both risk and awareness regarding information security, people that were “on the fence” for one of the above reasons have a high probability of deciding not to pirate just to play it safe.