Today one of the devs wrote:
No, not at all. In fact, one of the things we're working on is the oft-requested "true offline" mode. For 0.9, 'offline' will work how it does currently, where it still requires you to log in each time to verify your account, however we want to work towards a system which say, only requires verification once every 30 days. We're excited to start getting back to our more frequent release schedule following 0.9 with more content additions and all that good stuff.
Multiplayer was a pretty big project (bit of an understatement) so it's had a long development cycle, but there's also all sorts of other improvements and changes in 0.9 such as almost every skill getting changes, tons of new VFX and SFX, zone reworks, drop adjustments, new enemies, new models, and a bunch of other things. Beta Patch 0.9 Convergence is not 'just multiplayer' either. We want to continue to support our entire community, single player community members included!
(see Steam discussion to latest news update).
I'm unsure if he means that in 0.9 we will get a 30 days offline mode, or even for release?
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