This is the thing I I was thinking . While for many the online only isn ' t much of a bother , however , to others , it completely locks them out of most of the game . I realize that even without the internet , you can still play it , but you cannot unlock any challenges or make any sort of progress in unlocking new equipment and starting locations , plus none of your gear you unlocked shows up , so not only can you only play with the starting equipment . However , PC players aren ' t idiots , they say its for the leaderboard and challenges , but its actually related to the DRMwhich can be spoofed anyway to discourage piracy . Which nobody does anymore because the reason to pirateyou couldn ' t find PC games in stores anywhere has been solved thanks to steam . I am sure for most they either play it at home on a console or on their desktop PC , so it doesn ' t bother them , but there are some such as myself who use a gaming PCthat can still run the game at max settings because they like to be able to game when they travel . However , without internet I can ' t do much .