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Best Diablo 3 Announcement reaction gifs ever...
Turambar:
I won't publicly say how much /played I had on WoW, but it was substantial... picture 5 years of raiding 4-5 nights a week for 4 hours at a time... you get the picture. I stopped playing in 2010 and haven't picked it back up...
That being said, one thing blizzard does better than any other is their game patching system. Even if you play single player only, the content delivery alone is worth the internet connection. Let's be completely honest, though. The internet connection requirement is a form of DRM. It is the same form that steam uses. Both feel unobtrusive to me. You can do "off-line" mode on many steam games, but what does that matter? Once again... constant patching and support and the ability to communicate with friends even when I'm not playing the same game as them are all a plus.
tl;dr
Blizzard does games right. Being connected to their servers, even for single player, means up-to-date patching and content.
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 16, 2012, 11:52:13 am ---Please understand that I'm not this way because I think those without internet access should have access to said game. That's not my point. It has more to do with an unnecessary requirement or a contrived requirement that's just tacked on for whatever purpose the developer comes up with.
To put it another way, Imagine if Microsoft decided that every single 360 requires a Kinect in order to function even if the Kinect's functionality is never used? Mind you, Kinect wasn't a pack-in so you gotta shell out for it. Owning the Kinect wouldn't be the problem, it would be the requirement that you must have it even if the games you play have no justifiable reason to require it.
It's the same here. There's no true justifiable reason to require an always on connection for Single Player campaign outside of the developers self interests.
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Copy that, but there is a reason to require access, it's the Auction house. They chose to have a system where in game items can be sold for money in the real world. By doing this, they must require every game to be online all the time to crunch the numbers. If they let you go offline, they wouldn't see you run a program to get items without fighting for them. Then you could simply reconnect and sell them for real money.
If there wasn't an auction house I would agree with you, since hacking is hacking, but when it comes to real world money, you gotta be online 24x7 to make sure what dropped was supposed to drop.
Haze:
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on March 16, 2012, 10:47:14 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 16, 2012, 10:32:03 am ---
As much as I love the Diablo series (anyone remember having to run Bobafett just to keep the cheaters at bay?) being required to always have an Internet connection, especially for single player campaigns may be the dealbreaker for me. It's along the same vein when Sony devs would use MagicGate to prevent people from copying or moving their single player game saves for a game that has zero multiplayer capabilities.
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I respect your thoughts on this and I've felt that way in the past, but in today's day and age I personally feel this argument just doesn't hold weight anymore.
I think it was SC2 where I got super pissed about this so I decided to do an analysis of my internet connection. I found out I only went down once in the past two years and it was my fault. At that point I just let it die personally and wasn't anxious or worried. In the end, it was all good.
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It's a dealbreaker when it comes to buying the game for me. Online checks / online requirements for offline games be it during install or at runtime = no sale. Simple as that. Doesn't mean I'll pirate the game either, I simply won't buy it, won't play it, and consider it to not exist. I do have to wonder just how many customers like me they've lost through these tactics.
Samstag:
Add me to the list of non-buyers. I stopped buying Ubisoft games for the same reason.
I don't always have an internet connection available when I'm sent off on business trips for weeks or months at a time.
Vigo:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 16, 2012, 03:29:49 pm ---Be kinda nice if you assclowns stopped arguing about crap like which Chinese joystick is the best for Robotron and spent more time letting us know that things like Torchlight exist.
There goes my weekend.....
;D
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cough..cough..
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=110848.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=97861.0
Now if you excuse me, I have more pointless arguing to do. ;)