I dunno, when Bradshaw says this to Polygon:
With the way that the game works, we offload a significant amount of the calculations to our servers so that the computations are off the local PCs and are moved into the cloud. It wouldnt be possible to make the game offline without a significant amount of engineering work by our team.
And it goes unchallanged, combined with Arthur, it appears, even if it is just perception it is perception they are fine with. It isn't just that he doesn't like to admit he was wrong, but they have an angle that isn't consumer 1st, but publisher/dev 1st.
I think the sad take away of this entire event is going to ultimately be that gaf's furor isn't actually worth anything - and the enthusiast press will continue to not be held accountable by their readers because we (gaf and the like) are ultimately the vocal minority.
As much as I would love some longer lasting repercussions to this event, in a few weeks I feel like the gaming fandom as a whole will have forgotten about this entire fiasco and reviewers (for the most part) will continue to be their usual group of out of touch, self congratulatory PR mouth pieces; unwilling to admit mistakes or write anything other than what is expected of them.
It sure is hard to be paid to play video games for a living, you guys.