I can't wait til Susan comes back so we don't have to live through the "do do", "you have huge clap" and other assorted jokes. (Aw, who am I kidding, I snickered)
Love the podcast, guys, look forward to it every time!
Regarding Diablo 3, and games in general that require a permanent Internet connection, I think it's something that we, as a gaming community, cannot condone (and yes, I won't be buying Diablo 3, but that's besides the point). Not everyone has broadband, (even in 2011, yes, don't look so shocked), and even those who do can sometimes have trouble with it, like I did back in June. Our ISP is a great big bunch of doofus (or is the plural "doofi"?), and they killed their own DSLAM while working on it (of course, they would never admit that), which left a whole bunch of us consumers without phone, TV or Internet for nearly a week (thank goodness I had a connection at work, or I would've gone into withdrawal). Say I wanted to play a game like Diablo 3 during that week, what was I supposed to do then? And there's the other issue @-Dragmire- raised, and with good reason, what if someone wants to play that game 5, 10, 15 years from now? I still play Dune every now and then, and that was released in 1992 (and it's not even the oldest game I own), nearly twenty years ago (oh gosh, it hurt to type that in).
Bottom line, I'm with those who argue that requiring a permanent Internet connection in the case of single player games is ridiculous (I'm not talking about multiplayer here, obviously), and I won't be a party to it.
Edit: Also, IIRC, when I got my retail copy of Dragon Age, I only had the code, and had to download Shale content separately.
