Is is possible to play without internet connetion?

This issue has been raised by the Steam community in the hopes Simbin might consider allowing for offline play thru the Steam Client. As it stands now RRRE is a client based game and there in lies my problem with monetary support for the game. I have purchased one DTM season and would like to purchase more but my concern is no offline mode. When my internet goes down, i'm locked out.

I know the biggest concern is piracy but Simbin along with Steam can build in a layer of DRM that would allow this game to go offline. The other problem with RRRE is the servers tend to bog down so there is a waiting and load times just to play the game in single player mode.

I hope Simbin considers adding offline capability to RRRE in the future.

 

I would like to know wether it's possible to play Raceroom Racing Experience offline, in other words without internet connection?

 

Unfortunately, you need internet connection to play R3E.

I would love to have offline mode though after going through almost half a month of inability to play R3E due to internet connection issues.

 

I think R3E needs internet connection for players' statistics

 

what's this page?

http://store.dtm-experience.com/game.html

it should be offine

 

I didn't know there was a lite version offline only for DTM experience 2013, anyway you asked for R3E

 

you are right! lets hope there will be an offline version of R3E!

 

Enforcing permanent online even when doing single player, is impertinent and unacceptable. There is no acceptable explanation for this, neither statistics maintenance (easy to imagine altenrtive designs for a solution to that), nor copy protection ("solving" this issue at the total cost and disadvantage of paying customers, is extremely customer-hostile). Its what it always has been as long as the game in question is not dedicated to being an explicit online experience only: a foul excuse. UBI and EA got plenty of shitstorms in the past when they published games needlessly using this design. I wish this tradition would still live strong, to let publishers know.

Zero sympathy and zero understanding at my end of the wire. Take enforced always-online feature away, Sector3, that simple: take it away.

 

Yes I agree. If there was a warning that appeared when you were in offline mode saying that none of your stats would be updated I'd be fine with that. At least I could still have fun with my favourite sim at my beach house. (Which has no internet)

 

I completely agree with Skybird! I have lots of internet connection issues to be able to play online but I want a solid single player experience! WHY DO WE NEED THE INTERNET CONNECTION FOR SINGLE PLAYER??

 

This.

 

I have found this:


from here:

http://www.speedmaniacs.com/News,Ra...-intakt-neue-Infos-vom-Creative-Director,6093

but this article seems quite old! Can developers confirm this? or they have changed their mind? ;-)

 

Offline would be great! Especially for the packs that we invested in such as DTM ADAC, and WTCC. Why not right?

 

I still have not tried online multiplayer in R3E even once. Not even once. I am simply not interested. Heck, I am not even curious. It just is not my cup of tea. Nor am I interested at all in having my stats posted online or doing online competition things.

A majority of players does not care to race online. Not organised, not even occasionally.

For iRacing, obviously it is different. The whole game is designed for online racing only. But R3E is not like iR. And the iR crowd is pretty much a niche within a niche. Not many players do it with iR.

I rarely only do a hotlapping lap on the Nordschleife in AC online, in trackday mode. And I even wonder why I do that on these rare instances... I prefer to set up the kind of track conditions that I want to see in the coming 20 minutes. And these wishes never are met by the available server sessions. I tried it in AC for some weeks, first time ever I did online racing (I play since the late 80s...), found that it was not interesting, and my curiosity faded again quickly.

Needing to be online all the time and being forbidden to play when Steam or online connection has a problem, does nothing for me.

If it is for copyright protection : have the license checked online every three to six months or so. With that I could agree. Every 3-6 months there is a need to run R3E onine for 20 seconds at least, so that the license stuff could be checked. And then good it is. - But other games and companies get along without even that alltogether. Isn't that what Steam also is about?

 

I tried it in Steam offline mode. The sim did not work, saying there was no connection. If there is an offline mode, they hid it extremely well.

 

What's even worse is when Simbin S3 servers go down for whatever reason and no one gets to play. This has happened several times in the past.

 

That indeed is old, Diego isnt even at S3 anymore...Directions have changed since then.

 

So what's the truth? Are they going to implement offline mode into the game?

 

I agree! Devs, please give us an answer!

 

This is something that has been discussed over and over many times, its the same answer, no for now. Maybe one day when R3E is labeled as being RaceRoom 1.0 then maybe it will have offline.