Batman, So because a couple dev's failed at first then the rest should all just give up? It's call learning from others mistakes adapting and making improvements. Besides it seems EA's biggest problem was no offline play which unless I read it wrong does not seem to be the case for the single player experience what we're talking about is that all these games will have the best experience available to those who are connected.
DragonKnight, None of the single player games mentioned stop working when you're not online, of course online multiplayer games wont work. This is not SimCity, they are still playable lets say for example if Halo4 had this always on implementation it would still be the exact same Halo4 with always online as part of it this would just make it possible when you are online to see different effects, changes in enemy location and AI, more co op and social features in game while connected. I ...