[TM2] Offline only accounts?

[Pawnpusher]

So is it no longer possible to create offline accounts?

With TMU, I had a separate profile for the kids, so they could pursue their own medals in offline only.


The menu looks the same as the old game:
1. Create New Account
2. Select "Stay Offline"
3. Choose name/flag
4. It then tells me that I must connect one time, and the title is unavailable.

[Bang_Bang]

i remember seeing this also, i think/hope it means for just the first time a profile is used, but i could be wrong.

[kalimerre]

Your topic has been moved to Support.
Please don't make double topic for the same question.

[kc3]

I'd like to know the answer to this too

It won't let me create a second profile for offline / local / lan play without signing on with a different account. This must surely be a bug?

[Cerovan]

You must buy the game for your kids and authenticate at least one time online to validate the account (and be able to launch the profile when you're offline).

[Pawnpusher]

Hmm, purchasing 4 accounts for single computer use by 4 people. And then purchasing all those upgrades when expansions are released. I don't think that's going to happen.

All the goodwill from the previous versions (which I have purchased *a lot* of), is gone with this decision.

[DarrenS]

I would strongly recomend they rethink such a basic thing as charging for for each extra offline profile.
It should be enough that the main online profile has connected to verify that the game is legit.
I have never met any other game on the face of the planet that charages for offline profiles. Once you have brought the game, you are in all other games free to make as many offline profiles as you want.
As it only shows them in a very very bad light

[buckoa51_2]

Oh dear, I came to this forum because I have the same problem, am I really supposed to buy 4 accounts for all my friends/family to use? Does this mean I cannot play hot-seat when I have friends over unless they buy the game too? If I had known this I would NOT have bought the game.

[DarrenS]

To be fair you can hot seat (my mistake I only found it after my post) but it does not record offline points and you must first connect with the full on-line account to be able to play with any offline account EACH time anyone wants to use a offline one and then it can only be used for hot seating.
I just cannot believe that no manager could see the fact that a friend could start playing offline and have a history (to try to beat) is something that increases the saleability and marketability of the game through friends getting hooked on trying to beat what they did last week and that hook getting them to buy the game so they can surprise their mate the next time round.

[eyebo]

I have no authority to say so, but I have to believe that the way offline accounts worked in TMF will return for TM². The Nadeo folks did their best to get the game released on time, but there are a few things that seem obvious to us... and were probably obvious to them... but they had to leave those things until a future update.

I wouldn't assume that the way it is now is the way they want it, unless they've definitively said so.