No I don’t play online, and there’s others on this board that don’t either. I’m not interested in paying a subscription fee and I really don’t enjoy playing against a bunch of kids half my age who beat the snot out of me. I’m in my 30’s with a family of four and I don’t have the time (or the desire honestly) to spend to get even decent enough at these kind of games where online multiplayer even becomes fun. Much less good enough to actually be competitive. I just want to plug in for 20 or 30 minutes once in a while and have fun blasting away at stormtroopers, driving an at-st, or flying the millennium falcon.
I did try the free two day trial and it only confirmed my position. I could hold my own in the aerial dogfights (I usually ranked in the top 25%), but I’ve always been pretty decent at flying games. But in the ground combat I routinely got absolutely trounced. I rarely made it more than a few steps before I got killed. I NEVER got the vehicle or hero power ups (if I stayed alive long enough to even get to one, it was always either snatched up by someone else right before I got to it or I was sniped to death trying to activate it). It was not fun at all. Just frustrating. And then my account was bombarded with all these incomprehensible messages and invites and such that I wanted nothing to do with. Maybe I’m old fashioned but I’m just not interested in making friends with random people across the globe just because we both play a video game. Real life is busy and full enough.
But offline I can play well enough against the bots that I often get the vehicle or hero I want and get to have fun with it. And I even win a match here or there. I really enjoy the game and I’m happy that now I can play what I personally consider the two most fun game modes without having to pay a subscription or deal with all the headaches and frustrations of playing online. Video games are one of the things I do for my (admittedly rare) “me” time when I want to relax and escape for a bit. For me they are the polar opposite of being social, in a good way.
And I’m obviously not alone b/c the news item made it sound like this update was due to fan demand.