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Why Buy Live Service Games If They’d Disappear. To top it all of, most of these games are 60 or 70 dollars at least. (www.gamescordia.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And self-hosted servers are a thing. By "offline," I mean "not connected to official servers."

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is not what offline means.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If it's self-hostable, it absolutely is. I self-host Minecraft on my home LAN and my kids can absolutely play even if the Internet goes out. That's by definition offline, though you can certainly put it on a public server if you choose.