@HSV002 No, you have to be connected every time you want to play single player because publishers have lied through their eye-teeth enough times about piracy and secondhand games killing video game sales that their investors are actually buying into it. The result is a bunch of unnecessary and intrusive DRM schemes in an attempt to take a bite out of the used game market.

Middle-aged housewives that spend hours a day puttering around their virtual garden aren't going to turn around and plug in an xbox360. The closest they might come to core gaming is picking up a used Nintendo DS and playing Animal Crossing. Social gaming (I.E. Facebook apps) are not adding to the gaming industry in any way. It's good for business, bad for gaming. The more popular these little applications get, the more companies are going to drop core gaming development in favor of cheap-to-develop game apps that are proven to net profit for minimal risk.