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by parliament32 2470 days ago
They basically already do, considering most new console games refuse to start without a working internet connection.

I had a service outage from my ISP the other day, so I figured I'd play some offline AC:Odyssey. Imagine my surprise when it refused to launch (from the disc, no less) without a connection.

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not most games, most games by Ubisoft, and probably EA