viOleNcE
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I've played offline, and it is better, but online isn't worthless like people say. Offline is better for sure, but not everyone has good or decent people to play with offline. If you are messing up your special move inputs that's most likely your fault, because I don't have that problem at all when I play online.
Online is good for becoming familiar with match-ups (for the most part), that's pretty much it. Online is trash, and this is coming from someone who pretty much plays mostly online until recently. There are many things that are possible offline that aren't online, moves that are less punishable than they should be (Reptile's Dash, Raiden's Teleport). It's almost impossible to practice anti-airing depending on the character you play. I used to be one of the people that thought online wasn't as bad as people say, but it really is terrible. I believe there is only a certain level you can reach in terms of online skill before you need to go offline to up your game further.
For those who never plan to play offline competitively, then it obviously won't be as big of an issue because the differences will be negligible unless you are playing against high level players offline. Regardless, online should really just be viewed as something to pass the time and have fun with, it can't be taken seriously in a competitive sense in its current state.
The netcode is the #1 reason I've wanted a UMK9, sadly, it doesn't look like it'll happen.