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Diablo III Beta
satsugaikaze:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 22 Apr 2012, 11:37 ---When I really think about, I hate the fact that D3 requires an internet connection to play. The fact that it does is nearly a deal breaker for me. I should be able to play the games I buy anywhere, whether I can get online with a fast enough internet connection or not. If it's not an MMO, there's no reason to REQUIRE everyone to be online. Call me weird, but I've always preferred solo-ing in RPGs, especially hack-and-slash heavy ones. Having a party of NPCs is OK but I don't want to do co-op with a bunch of random people or even, in most cases, my friends (few of whom will be playing this in any case). The Diablo series has always been a solitary one for me so I probably won't touch online co-op play in D3 no matter what. I want to go it alone and I don't want to have to worry about server overloads or random crashes or maintenance work to get in the way of me playing single player when I want and where I want. I'll play a demo or get a torrent or something when the final version drops and if it's as good as I'm praying it is then I'll buy the full version. But if I'm not blown away, I'll look somewhere else. Probably boot up my copies of the first Dungeon Siege and Diablo 2.
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While I do understand the reasoning behind their need for players to be persistently online, I also think they could achieve the same things with a different approach. Starcraft 2's requirement for a Battle.net login is not really a jarring experience (logging in and single-player can be still done offline), and you would think it'd be the right approach to Diablo 3 as well.
That said, the rampant hacking that went on in Diablo II was absurd. From a certain angle it seems Blizzard made a highly sensitive reactionary approach because of this, and I wouldn't blame them. But authentication of characters on a second-for-second basis is stupid, espcially for a strictly solo playthrough. The option for a offline mode completely separate from the co-op/future versus (eg. no importing of characters into multiplayer ala what happened in D2, I think) should be there.
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