I really don’t understand this, it won’t stop the pirates now that it’s on Steam so really is this going to be another situation where people who buy the game legitimately then have to track down a crack in order to play a game offline?
I believe Kingdom Hearts on Epic is known for this same problem, a lot of people that show how it play it on Steam Deck recommend installing it from Epic and then using cracks to be able to play it offline
that seemed like too much of a headache to me so I’ve instead just not purchased it on Epic & am hoping it’ll eventually come to Steam sans the online requirement (if it follows a similar pattern to Tony Hawk here maybe we’ll finally see KH on Steam in March?)