Capcom did the same with the Megaman gacha game, which they removed all online features, rebalanced the economy around not having any MTX available, and then just let people buy it.

Which then became a huge modding scene since it was offline that allowed what is basically continued events and updates through the fanscene to keep it alive.

Same as Squeenix, a company with many problems but sometimes Capcom turns around a cool move like that too.