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Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer
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Because they decided to make the game always online in a persistent galaxy so the possibility a ganker finds has to be respected.
That's not true, you can play solo (but you still need to be online) and you won't see other players
I actually forgot that's an option, which just makes the always online an even weirder choice.
Its not about good game design.
Its a kind of DRM - a move inspired by the hypothesis that making a game hard to pirate will improve sales.
The data suggests that hypothesis is false.
An EU-funded study found that profits of blockbuster movies are negatively impacted by piracy, music industry profits are unaffected, and profits from selling books and video games are increased by piracy.