Please make battle pass items available in offline game play as well. If this is an error then please fix this issue. If this is done intentionally, please think again and make them available during offline sessions as well. I am more than willing to pour my money if this feature becomes available to play offline.
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Don’t hold your breath.
It would require a non-trivial amount of effort and it would open up a huge risk of “pirating” BP and BLB content.
They don’t even let people share the stuff they bought while playing online, they’re certainly not going to risk letting the offline mode players get all the stuff for free.
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While unlikely, this one would very much prefer they find a way to note permission on the account rather than thru communication with the Funcom live services.
If this one recalled it had been mentioned in a previous stream but solutions were not immediate.
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I believe the Bazaar authentication is handled by Playfab, someone can correct me if I’m wrong here. But this might explain why this stuff isn’t available when you’re offline:
Playfab seems unwilling to handle this stuff in an offline fashion.
You’re right. FLS is built on top of PlayFab.
Eh, I wouldn’t say this is PlayFab’s fault. The client side of the game is always “enemy territory”. You can’t make a client-authoritative logic completely secure, you can only make your security harder to beat. That’s why important stuff is always server-authoritative.
As Brendan answered in the discussion you linked to, it’s a matter of risk tolerance. And from how Funcom restricts what you can do even when you’re online in order to protect their bottom line, I’d say their risk tolerance is extremely low when it comes to monetization.
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Well said. This risk tolerance issue sounds exactly like the authoritarian policy if any. Had to learn my lesson after I bought those crom coins just to find out “you are not entitled to use this item” pop up while offline. In an admin panel, all the files are there and it pains me even more when I can’t use them when it is already there and I paid for it.
Perhaps this intolerance is due to the way how additional contents are added? I would guess that because all the “additional contents” already exist in the base game, making the game fully offline would jeopardize their monetization. If they make the game 100% offline playable, it would mean that by downloading a base game, all the players would have access to all the paid contents as well. THIS I think is why they don’t let these contents offline and I strongly believe that there should be a new separate validation or authentication processes to cover this issue.
This is basically the answer on why it won’t happen.
Thank the people who like to steal things for that.
In other words: if someone cracks the security algorithm and logic client side, they can fake item ownage by manipulating the offline cache. Basically stealing all the bazaar content.
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Have you ever encountered someone who cracked the DLC content and used it for free?
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There are technical differences between the DLCs and the BP/BLB stuff.
Yes. In fact, I did. You may want to read the comment from the community manager on this reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ConanExiles/comments/8saehi/imperial_heavy_khitai_armor_with_different/
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