Do you need to conect to the internet while playing offline?

[Nika]

you need to conect to the internet while playing offline? if so, what is the purpose for that?

[ViciousXUSMC]

Yes.

[Nika]

and what is the purpose ?

[Nagidar]

Gameguard updates.

[ViciousXUSMC]

to make people cry with no internets http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

sucks, I would love to play it on a laptop on the road or somthing with no internet.

[Realmz]

only on the PC version

[SirEldest]

I have PC and I can explain it easily. For PC of course.

No and Yes.

What I mean? If you install the game and don't go on the network and download the patch, then u don't have that annoying program call game guard. So then u can play it offline.

Once u connect to the network, that annoying program is install throught a patch. This program is updated before the game loads to protect from anything that can hack or check to see if u hacked any of the files. It is sega's way of saying to stop hacking.
Well since the program needs to load and update before PSU loads, tha means u need an internet.

In short, u dont need the internet till u get the first batch of the patch. Then u need it due to game guard.

[Pikku]

Simple. Uninstall the game whenever you want to play the game offline lol.

[Antagony]

Personally I'd like to see a more convenient workaround for this.

[SolitaryEcho]

I think all the item descriptions are server side too. When you go to the description of an item it take about a second to load.

[Ruby-chan]

If you look around there's a program out there to emulate a gameguard server so that you can play offline without being connected to the internet. I don't think I can say where it is, and I haven't tried it myself (As I'd only need it for my laptop and I haven't installed on my laptop yet.) but if you google around you might find it.

[Para]

Yes and no is the closest answer. You need an internet connection when gameguard checks for update but after the update check, you can play freely without internet connection.