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Best Diablo 3 Announcement reaction gifs ever...
knave:
You guys should try Terraria, Looks simple yet highly addicting.
I have more hours playing Terraria in three weeks than any other game on steam... :o Mmmm Platforming, crafting goodness.
Mikezilla:
--- Quote from: Turambar on March 16, 2012, 12:24:39 pm ---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.
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Haha I still play WoW, just started a new character the other day. PRobably going to quit when the new expansion comes out, I think the whole panda aspect is too chinese/retarded. ::) Yeah, I dont mind it having to have a permanant internet connection to play. I love the diablo series, the story is awesome, thats whats so great about Blizzard games. They are so immersive its insane. I dont think I have ever played a Blizzard game and been like "man that was mediocre at best". The patching support is great, turmbar nailed it. I dont get why people get so uppity about having to have an internet connection to play. This day and age, who doesnt have reliable internet? Im super stoked about this. May 15th couldnt get here any sooner. ;D
Never even heard of Shenmue. :dunno
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on March 19, 2012, 01:50:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: Turambar on March 16, 2012, 12:24:39 pm ---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.
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Haha I still play WoW, just started a new character the other day. PRobably going to quit when the new expansion comes out, I think the whole panda aspect is too chinese/retarded. ::) Yeah, I dont mind it having to have a permanant internet connection to play. I love the diablo series, the story is awesome, thats whats so great about Blizzard games. They are so immersive its insane. I dont think I have ever played a Blizzard game and been like "man that was mediocre at best". The patching support is great, turmbar nailed it. I dont get why people get so uppity about having to have an internet connection to play. This day and age, who doesnt have reliable internet? Im super stoked about this. May 15th couldnt get here any sooner. ;D
Never even heard of Shenmue. :dunno
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The story is good, but I'm not in the same boat with the super immersed story lines. The cut scenes are fantastic but outside of that, the story telling kind of suffers. At the end of the day the Diablo series will live and die by the sword of gameplay. If it's not intuitive and workable and expandable it will falter.
ChrisK:
--- Quote from: Haze on March 16, 2012, 02:27:30 pm ---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.
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Their bet is, fewer people than would have instead pirated if they had left it out. Their gamble to make.
I buy a lot of games on Steam, so I can't argue too much against Internet-based DRM, but those games can be played offline, at least. Always-on Internet DRM is bad IMHO because if someone messes up a router table or is performing maintenance or I simply have a problem with my ISP, I can't use my software. And more sinister than that the company may decide they aren't going to "support" the old game anymore. With always-on DRM you might lose the ability to play the game at all. Anybody get their WON ID validated in Quake anytime recently? (That one was not a problem because WON was chopped out before the game fell out of support.)
Always-on is where I draw the line, so I won't be buying Diablo 3. Which is a bummer cause I played a LOT of Diablo 1 and 2. A LOT.
Dervacumen:
Don't think I'll buy this. Man, it's getting harder and harder to find games that just let me play solitary on my computer without the whole Fing world needing to tap in to it. It really is getting easier to let someone hack the thing first. Ever just want to play a steam game, and have to sit there and wait for stuff to update when you don't have issues with it anyway? It sucks. It's like getting in your car to drive to the store and being forced to change the air in the tires because the old air is stale.