"Always On" and food for thought

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Thursday, March 14, 2013, 16:28 (4053 days ago) @ Revenant1988

This is the first thing I'd like them to clear up, especially as far as Xbox Live and gold accounts, and what happens to people who don't have Internet or don't have a fast enough connection for XBL and/or PSN. I find it hard to believe they'd require people to pay an extra fee that doesn't even go to them just to play, and really I find it hard to believe they'd make it absolutely necessary to be connected (and again, presumably connected with a certain speed and a certain degree of reliability) to even play the game. What about vacations? What about parts of the world where electricity is easy enough to come by but Internet, or broadband, is prohibitively expensive?
What about those days when you've just had enough of other people and you want to enjoy yourself by yourself?