To me, the only reason to be mad that you have to authenticate every 15 days if you play offline (plus goign out of your way to play offline to begin with) is if you plan on pirating the game. This isn't Ubisoft, they're not paying money to develop something that will decrease sales or anything.
Why's everyone mad about no offline Diablo 3 single player?
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Oddly, some people don't have a stable, or constant connection to, the internet. So anything requiring internet access is a bit iffy.
..Was a bigger problem back when steam did it, but I don't see the issue now. ...Other than the more rural areas of the US..maybe some other countries.
..Was a bigger problem back when steam did it, but I don't see the issue now. ...Other than the more rural areas of the US..maybe some other countries.
Some people don't want to compete with 15 other people over who gets to kill the next monster that respawns?
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If it's just that you have to authenticate every 15 days, I don't really think it's that big of a deal. Let's be honest here, if you're a PC Gamer, you have internet sometimes. It might not be a strong connection, but I can't imagine that there are many people who game on a PC and NEVER have the computer hooked-up to a line. Even if you game on a laptop that you like to keep portable; you put it online from time-to-time. Especially if the authentication is automatic; unless you go for more than 2 weeks without putting your computer online, then you probably never even have to think about it.
Mind you, I base this on what I've read in this topic, feel free to give me specifics if my chain of logic isn't accounting something.
Edit: Mind that I'm generally against DRM, but if it's on the sidelines so that I can ignore it and doesn't otherwise hinder me, then I'm willing to give a little slack on the issue.
Mind you, I base this on what I've read in this topic, feel free to give me specifics if my chain of logic isn't accounting something.
Edit: Mind that I'm generally against DRM, but if it's on the sidelines so that I can ignore it and doesn't otherwise hinder me, then I'm willing to give a little slack on the issue.
ItsAPaul said:
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Can we PLEASE at least read the opening post before replying?
As someone who played both Diablo and Diablo 2 for years, I know for sure the offline single player will be of no interest to me.
But either way that sort of DRM is just bullshit, because it serves no purpose. It only mildly inconveniences most people, with some it being a bigger deal, except the pirates who it doesn't effect at all. The pirates don't have to deal with DRM, with cracked games its as if it never existed in the first place. So the DRM specifically only effects the people it is not meant to.
But either way that sort of DRM is just bullshit, because it serves no purpose. It only mildly inconveniences most people, with some it being a bigger deal, except the pirates who it doesn't effect at all. The pirates don't have to deal with DRM, with cracked games its as if it never existed in the first place. So the DRM specifically only effects the people it is not meant to.
Sorry, I had a brain fart and for some ungodly reason, managed to somehow combine Assassin's Creed 2 with Diablo 3...WhiteTigerShiro said:
I guess that's what happens when you go 3 days without a night's rest and keep yourself awake with energy drinks, eh?
...Dammit, I REALLY need to get some sleep.
See...single player kinda sorta implies that no internet connection is necessary to have fun. I don't really have too much of an issue with the authentication (assuming it takes less than a minute), but I don't see why I would have to go out of my way to enjoy a game I legally bought (or will buy, whatever).
It's blizzard, not ubisoftoctafish said:
Paying blizzard customers know that it will take the internet and already have battle.net accounts so it won't bother them in the least. Look at Starcraft 2.Xzi said:
Thing here is that it's not so much for the DRM factor is that it ties in to achievements and such that hit your online battle.net account, it also allows blizzard to track and ban cheaters and pirates.
This form of DRM is the LEAST intrusive as most if not all players now have some form of internet access. Hell, you can go to the local coffee shop and authenticate, you don't even have to be inside lol. A company has to protect it's profits and this seems very very reasonable to the other alternatives out there.
I'd venture to say that 99% of blizzard's existing fanbase has internet full time.
Splinter Cell Conviction (which was a shit game as well as having bullshit DRM), Ass Creed 2, Silent Hunter 5 (because software pirates are wannabe submariners), Settlers 7 and possibly some others that I am unaware of. Are any of these published by Blizzard? No? Its Ubisoft that I am talking about as well as Diablo 3: The clickening.Digitaldreamer7 said:
If I'm going to be playing Single Player, by myself, why do I need to be connected to the internet to play? :l