No surprise, but nice confirmation about not being online only.

[Zaku]

Anyways op, thanks for the info. I knew this already but some may not.
To be honest I always play PDS games with steam running in online mode. I need those juicy achivements.

 

[moglus]

While Paradox Veteran players won't be surprised, it may warrant mentioning for new customers Friends that once you download Stellaris from Steam, you will not need to be connected to the internet to enjoy the single player aspects of the game.

*cough* ironman mode *cough*

 

[ponasozis]

Which game have they done it with?

diablo 3 on release but they removed it after a human wave of angry fans

 

[Mordaith]

diablo 3 on release but they removed it after a human wave of angry fans

I still need to connect to play D3 on PC.

 

[FlavourBeans]

*cough* ironman mode *cough*

At least with EU4, they changed it so Ironman can run off of local storage.

 

[Mordaith]

At least with EU4, they changed it so Ironman can run off of local storage.

I imagine we'll see something like that.
I hope we'll see something like that.

 

[moglus]

At least with EU4, they changed it so Ironman can run off of local storage.

I can't check if it's still a problem right now(some file somewhere is slightly changed so i can't start an ironman game right now), but the problem with locally saved ironman runs is that if you disconnect from the steam server the game continues like normal, and when it saves without an online connection that save instantly gets flagged as unable to earn achievements, and since it's ironman there is no way to undo that.
I haven't played in a while, but one of the reasons i stopped playing EU4 (around november i think) was that my college partially blocks access to steam, which made me unable to play any of my ironman campaigns, even locally saved ones.

 

[Mesina2]

by lots of crappy companies
you mean the most crappiest ones
*cought* EA *cought**cought ubishit *cought*

EA hasn't done this ever since SimCity flop, while they also removed always online restriction on that game.

So it's a rather outdated thing to mention EA on it.

Meanwhile Ubisoft is still going full speed ahead with it.

 

[LHG100]

Y'know, in Stellaris' case, if you use this as a 'plus' in most matters this is sorta damning it by faint praise.

Nonetheless, yes, it is a plus. And because of this paradox is waifu material.

 

[Olliganak]

EA hasn't done this ever since SimCity flop, while they also removed always online restriction on that game.

So it's a rather outdated thing to mention EA on it.

Meanwhile Ubisoft is still going full speed ahead with it.

Ay, there lies the difference between EA and Ubisoft. EA is a very active evil, but if something backfires on them too hard they will usually abandon it. Ubisoft is a much more banal evil (really its incompetence more than anything), but when they make a mistake, they will make it again, and again, and again (as I said before, mostly just incompetence more than anything else).