I’ve heard people losing their google, thus their important gmail account, from using a VPN to buy a cheap subscription. Also heard that if you make a throwaway account just for that, if you ever log in with both accounts on the same machine, the two will be associated and banned together. So yeah, proceed at your own risk.

It has no place in single player games and turns me off from playing them. There’s no real reason they exist other than removing the ability to use cheats (which should be allowed in single players games imo) to obtain items or boosts that are only available on their cash shop. It also ties in to the Game As a Service model which i’ve come to detest; usually because they have a constant stream of updates that tries to monopolize your free time, whereas i am the kind of player that can say “ok this is done”.

Games that offer multiplayer in addition to single player, such as D4, should allow you to have a single player save that’s offline, can be paused and anything goes.