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Reply to the only future for OTC is reviving standalone multiplayer client in Offworld Trading Company Stardock Forums

Manny1's demo suggestion is the part I would argue with. A demo works when the thing you are selling survives being packaged. OTC against the AI is not what people buy this game for, so a timed single player build hands a stranger the least convincing version of it. What made the free client work in RushJet's story is not that it was free. It is that several people were in there at once. This game only reads as tense when the person undercutting you is a person, and there is no way to