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after 1.69 sneaky patch the game requires Origin services running (origin itself and updater) and there's no any legal way to workaround. The same deal like Sims 4 - you cannot get the cookie without the cockroach. A pack of them in fact.
Offline mode (like Steam offline) just disables connections' attempts from base service and IIRC this feature demands beign connected 1st to work properly, which has a bit of sense 'cause during this process you register the game with online service, however the updater still will stupidly try to connect from time to time regardless of status of connection and hardware. Even if the network is phisically disconnected or the card disabled, because - you know - reasons.
While you play really disconnected it is not a problem (except lost resources - the app is absurdly hudge - and potential applications' errors area ofc) playing connected in offline mode means you still have nice security hole and you're not really disconnected from Origin's blessings at all. It's like herpes
you may not reveal symptoms still beign a carrier.
I really miss the times when the most dangerous things in the Internet were
*this thing for the Net exists at all*, low humor, bomb-making manuals, absurd phone bills and common idiots... (these times never really existed but it's still a nice reminiscence
)
favorite quote: "When ElaineNualla is posting..I always read..Nutella. I am sorry" by Rosebine
self-claimed "lower-spec simmer"