How is a solo option keeping others from it? Let's see... you can choose to play online or off. How in the world does that keep other people from playing online? Let's see... oh, it doesnt!

No one ever said Square expanding was bad. No one ever said we didnt want online gaming, now did we? No, I don't think we did.

Did you even read a single post in this thread?

Edit: And speaking of looking into the future... what happens when PS2 becomes obsolete? Will Square continue to keep servers up for this game? What happens, years down the road, when people move onto the next online game, and there's no one playing anymore... not enough people to pay to keep the servers up and the mods online? Well hm... you cant play the game online anymore then, right? So... what do you do with it? It's useless now, because there is no offline mode. Man, am I ever selfish.