You're not following. Fine, I'll clarify. The reason that the question of internet availability is no less or no more relevant than the question of choice is more a case of examining the problem as a set of logical issues. If Frontier Developments hadn't reneged on their part of the agreement that they had intended offline mode to be a functional part of the game, the debate about internet connectivity would be entirely moot. Therefore discussing internet connectivity is entirely academic, you're discussing *the wrong question*, because you're already effectively conceding and failing to ask the correct question of Frontier Developments, and not holding them to account for not making good on their end of their intended feature. By discussing internet connectivity as a problem you're already assuming that they (the poor souls who might -need- or -desire- offline mode ED) are in a position of defeat from which they are going to have to deal with the consequences, shrug, and accept the repercussions.
Get it?
Fantastic.
Just so you know, I get your point. But your consummate arrogance and condescension obfuscates it greatly for me. I doubt I am alone in this regard.
That being said, the folks without a viable or fully viable internet connection ARE in a position of defeat right now. FD has stated their position pretty clearly, they have already started acting in accordance with this position and, if nothing changes, they WILL have to deal with the consequences, shrug, and accept the repercussions. We might try to persuade FD to change their stance, but frankly, in my opinion, I would say the odds we will do so are not good. I hope I'm wrong, truly I do, but my experience in this life has taught me to temper my expectations with precedent. However, perhaps by providing a snapshot of the severity of this particular issue, the most functionally debilitating one in my opinion, I was hoping to help bring our case to FD with some sort of concrete statistics about the harm it would cause. If the results bear out my hypothesis, anyway. In my way, I'm just trying to help the overall cause, as are you. Please keep this in mind, and try to leave your ego at the door. I will try to do so if you will.
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I have a pretty solid fiber connection, but this is utterly irrelevant to my desire to see an offline mode.
Offline would mean DRM free, potential for the game persist beyond Frontier's support (or even existence), and the potential for mods.
First of all, I just wanted to say thanks for bringing up these points in a constructive fashion
All are important issues, in my opinion - I chose the one I felt was the single biggest possible barrier to play in the here and now. But those are all very, very good points on their own.
