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I don't think requiring online functionality is the death knell of a game in the year 2024. Personally, I'm excited. Their servers were so damn slow to download on initial install and I hated MSFS2020 taking up a quarter of my game drive.
Only the installs were slow. Terrain streaming worked just fine right from the start (I played it from day one) - and once it's cached on your machine, they can shut down the servers all they want, it's still on your machine.
More than that, actually. I measured well over 250 over large cities. Others have reported more than 300.
In this case, it does. The cache for this simulator is a disk cache - and it's completely configurable. You can manually designate its size and which parts of the world it'll permanently contain. There's also a default rolling cache (also on SSD - this program doesn't even support hard drives), which does get overwritten over time.
The CDN to download the initial files were slow, the in game streaming was fine.
Yes, ownership sucks these days, but I don't know how they'd technically pull this off as well without using a remote server. As a philosophy, if we're purchasing games the only real choice is GoG, anything else ends up with us locked into some server-based licensing system.