Having bot support without offline support is the most pointless thing ever.
The whole purpose of having bots is to provide a fallback mode, a way to play the game if the servers are down or if you have connection issues. The pandemic made things much worse as far as internet traffic and routing because of a lot more people working from home.
Not having an offline mode means that we are dependent on factors (like routing or server availability) that are completely outside of our control.
Not having offline support also decreases the perceived value of the game because it essentially has a kill switch at its core. I personally consider the lack of offline support deeply anti-consumer.
It turns games into perpetual rental services, it puts an expiration date on them.
Depressing time to be a gamer, honestly. Instead of being excited about new releases these days the first thing that comes into my mind is "what's the catch? what did they screw up this time?"
