Yesterday, some readers did not understand why I could know the progress of other players around the world in a stand-alone game like Black Myth. Because it is not a pure stand-alone game. When playing it, you need to log in to platforms such as Steam, Epic, and Wegame to read the previous progress and upload your own game data at the same time, so the platform has progress statistics of all players.

This is actually a very good anti-piracy measure. In the past, stand-alone games could be played offline and pirated copies could be easily cracked. So now, a large number of interactions that require an internet connection are written into the code of stand-alone games, making it impossible to pirate.