In PIE Standalone, why doesn't the editor log into the online identity subsystem?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Looking at the PIE (Play in Editor) code, it appears that the editor only calls Login in the OnlineIdentity subsystem if it’s doing non-standalone play.

Login and acquisition of a real NetIdentity/Account from, say, facebook or amazon may be a nice thing even if we’re not running a separate server… That’ll give you NedIds for using cloud, friends, etc.
(In my case, I’m developing an OnlineSubsystem plugin module, and I’m trying to test a bit better.)

Any reason why we wouldn’t want to go through the OnlineIdentity login process like we do with other PlayNetModes?

Rox

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FWIW, I’ve patched PIE to always call the OnlineIdentity login codepath, which is working for me, so I’m not blocked.