Unfortunately the whole game/app is built from the roots to be online-only. All damage calculations etc. are done server-side. So even the single-player tutorial battles are online-only (and private battles between two friends are also online-only).
streaming only is a small demographic. i only play offline games so this product will never be in my list of wants.
i think they are trying to push people towards streaming with all the price increases then offering these cheap streaming...
Imho "both" would imply that it can play games on its own and does not constantly suffer from the compromise of streaming content instead of playing it natively.
Of course this is just my personal interpretation of how some words are defined...
Nobody in this thread is even bashing Valve that I can tell, if anything, people are just putting the blame on the same excuse that every corpo performing price hikes on tech products, not even in the same league of people claiming greed like...
I guess I should thank Nintendo for having such a horrible Switch 2 reveal that it made me get a Steam Deck in 2025. Seems like a damn steal now.
EDIT: And the RAMpocalypse pricing has me seriously considering getting a Switch 2 before the price...
If anybody knows the before and after for Europe by all means shoot me a reply and I'll add it to the main post for a complete picture. With there being no formal press release I can find it's hard to get the numbers for a region I'm not in.