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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
I have only one gaming computer, so the "benefit" of being able to play it on multiple computers is a non-starter for me. As for the sync'd saves, I can make my own savegame backups. I don't need them to do it for me.
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The reasoning they gave for introducing an "online platform" were indeed weakly convincing at best. I always have control over saves of my games, as I occasionally make copies to keep for later (for the good old times sake...). I don't know, but they would have needed to add quite a bit more to make it look good to the average person, but I can't even think of any functionality online that I would desire for a single player game. Really nothing, unfortunately.
Maybe they just should have been honest about the real purpose of it on release, and say it will be their first step towards a pay-by-play /pay-per-additional ingame content basis. Maybe that would have been received better. Although thinking about it, why would you need a permanent connection for downloading occasional new campaigns, or units, or just skins? Even I turn in circles following their concept...