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I really miss the pre-internet days when I'd buy a game, never worrying that the company's server would be offline, that they'd sunset support rendering the game unplayable, harvest my data, or engineer the game to coerce me into buying extras.
If Nintendo doesn't do something silly like brick switches when they retire the platform, at least we should be good there when it comes to physical releases. Diablo 2 resurrected, while digital only and requiring an internet connection, has an offline mode but only on nintendo switch. Also GOG.com has a bunch of stuff.
We are definitely not as well off as we once were in this regard though. Ah... The good ol' days...