The whole point of the game is that you make your little creature then go online to interact with the creatures that everyone else playing the game has made.
Well, that could be part of it. But what I have read, tells me they are focusing a lot of attention on a self contained world that reacts to your creatures choices.
The whole point of the game is that you make your little creature then go online to interact with the creatures that everyone else playing the game has made.