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if your goal is to make a game available for all, there are a few main issues with "online" approach.What I'm trying to understand better are the potential issues from your perspective. For example, the game doesn't collect any personal data. The internet is used in the following situations:
When you choose to use the cloud save function.
When you opt to use the Higran phone app to view photos taken by other players.
When using the proofreader system to report any dialogue errors.
And to check if there are any available updates for the game.
Ren'Py is completely open-source, allowing anyone to extract the code and check for any sort of 'malicious intent' within the game's code.
I can make this optional (I've already put this on my list of things to resolve.); it's not a problem for me, but I want to understand what kind of issues have occurred with games that accessed the internet, which led to certain behaviors among some players.
there are people without stable access to internet for various reasons.
there are those who dont want to be "tracked" yet again for various reasons.
there are those who just prefer to play offline, for various reasons once more.
a few of the main groups/issues imo.
ofc, there are those online gamers, platformers, tubers, etc, and those probably are delighted with online options.
if you wanna to please most of those sides, make it optional, as mentioned above.
im more inclined to offline gaming, so i might be a tad biased, yet no reason you have stated doent merit mandatory online gaming.