Blizzard Surprised by Reaction to Online-Only Diablo 3
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I'll probably end up getting it since I like to try and play games like this with my friends back home. But I will also regret my purchase if this decision about always online stays seeing as how I spent most of the day fucking around trying to get my internet to work, which doesn't happen too often thankfully but when it does and I can't play a lot of my games (since they go through steam and it refuses to let me just open it offline) and I get rather pissed
Wait how will it not affect game sales in a negative way? Some people only buy games to play offline, I think it will have a huge impact on game sales.Croaker42 said:
Calibretto said:
It will be HARDCORE for me also!
When I die, I'll just get myself drunk, and beat someone. And then Lvl 1 again.
They'll have to use proxies, which I dunno if Blizz can weed out. Most likely not.Calibretto said:
But they'll sure as hell have hefty ping. I am not scared of Chinese at all tbh.
You go bro! We'll be totally rooting for you hahahahaPlurralbles said:
my my, didn't we just go through this? Whats the point of making it an "evolution" if it trims people clean off a corporations product out of disgust and plain old fashioned inability. Aren't corporations entire purpose to make money? you would think that since diablo is going to pruint money anyway, they would have it print even MORE money. using "D3's" offline single player to suit the people like me as they once did, and STILL maintaining there beloved RMAH on only online terms. WHAT do they stand to lose? WoW got hacked, so it leads me to believe this will be as well.Calibretto said:
Depending on how linked the "Hardcore" mode will be to the entire AH, you WILL feel the repercussions of the RMAH and undercutting by gold farmers. I assure you, not all of them live in China as people would have you believe. But hey, I bet you'll take it as a challenge all the more. Fact is Gold sellers, and honestly just plain other players will do whatever it takes to get auctions sold. toying with them in mmo's over the years I've seen prices drop 50% in no time at all because someone got hasty, and they ruined a prime item for quite a few people as a consequence. If the RMT have a foot in it, SANCTIONED no less, then I would expect to be NPCing everything like the old days. At least Blizzard makes a small cut.
I had to add this in an edit to a prior post, but if anyone's still reading this far, it doesn't hurt to link http://broadbandmap.gov/technology from http://www.broadband.gov/ . the first link is a map detailed all the areas that have broadband across the US (which is in blue), and there are a few options to mix and match. the intention of maintaining it is so we can measure the growth of broadband in the US as the government gets around to make ALL of the US broadband. since someone dear to me lives just in one of these no-broadband zones, I find this always-online mess to be foolish when writ mild.
I won't be at the banquet with you, Calibretto, but that stated these days I don't eat the scraps. I hope the game is what everyone expected if you still purchase, and do tell if it is.
I am not going to lie, when I started playing online, I never went back to single player ever again in Diablo 2.
Please people, stop it already. It is not like it will be the end of the world to have a constant internet connection. Hell, I have lost connection many times, but it never really destroyed my experience. There have been several times also when I have lost connection in starcraft 2 ranked matches, but I never really cared.
Just take this with a grain of salt, and wait to see how the product ends up in the end. I sure as hell never really cared about being all the time online to play Starcraft 2 campaign.
Please people, stop it already. It is not like it will be the end of the world to have a constant internet connection. Hell, I have lost connection many times, but it never really destroyed my experience. There have been several times also when I have lost connection in starcraft 2 ranked matches, but I never really cared.
Just take this with a grain of salt, and wait to see how the product ends up in the end. I sure as hell never really cared about being all the time online to play Starcraft 2 campaign.
When I first played D2 .. I played in sp. I got to about lvl 30 before my friends invited me to play online with them. It turned out that my lvl 30 paladin was now completely useless and I would have to start again. Ok so lvl 30 is not that high but I was a noob and I was attached to my character because it was the first time I had played the game.
I remember this being really awkward when this happened and I was wishing I had never started in SP and only started online.
Removing sp entirely from D3 will fix this problem for all newcomers.. whenever a noob picks up a game the first thing they are gonna to is play in sp only to later find out that most of the real content of the game is online and they cant port all their hard work across.
In this light .. it makes sense. And for everyone else .. you can play on your own online and never talk/party/invite anyone to your games and just play privately achieving the same thing.
Theres really NO reason to complain, and it IS a surprise that people are complaining.
I remember this being really awkward when this happened and I was wishing I had never started in SP and only started online.
Removing sp entirely from D3 will fix this problem for all newcomers.. whenever a noob picks up a game the first thing they are gonna to is play in sp only to later find out that most of the real content of the game is online and they cant port all their hard work across.
In this light .. it makes sense. And for everyone else .. you can play on your own online and never talk/party/invite anyone to your games and just play privately achieving the same thing.
Theres really NO reason to complain, and it IS a surprise that people are complaining.