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Best Diablo 3 Announcement reaction gifs ever...
kalars123:
I've got my D3:CE pre-ordered and pre-payed and also have D3 pre-purchase through blizzard. I could care less about the whole have to be connected to the servers thing because I know it serves a real purpose. It is not DRM like so many like to think it is, Blizzard made this game to be a client/server structure game like WoW to keep dupers,hackers,cheaters out period that is the only reason. If you were a long time player of D2 you know how bad it is/was. I seriously doubt that pirating/DRM was a meaningful reason they chose to go this route is it a bonus for them that the game will be nearly impossible to pirate for several years? sure. But I think keeping the game secure and the economy safe were their primary concerns.
Mikezilla:
--- Quote from: kalars123 on April 26, 2012, 12:58:11 pm ---I've got my D3:CE pre-ordered and pre-payed and also have D3 pre-purchase through blizzard. I could care less about the whole have to be connected to the servers thing because I know it serves a real purpose. It is not DRM like so many like to think it is, Blizzard made this game to be a client/server structure game like WoW to keep dupers,hackers,cheaters out period that is the only reason. If you were a long time player of D2 you know how bad it is/was. I seriously doubt that pirating/DRM was a meaningful reason they chose to go this route is it a bonus for them that the game will be nearly impossible to pirate for several years? sure. But I think keeping the game secure and the economy safe were their primary concerns.
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:stupid
ChrisK:
I know Diablo has had massive problems with dupers in the past. I also know that people have managed to glitch money and items in WoW. The client-server architecture will help reduce dupers, but it won't eliminate them.
I guess I see their DRM from the opposite perspective: they know this is going to be a mega seller, and if they can reduce piracy by even 5% it'll mean millions to them in revenues. I feel this is a DRM scheme with a serendipitous reduction in duping.
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on April 26, 2012, 12:32:14 pm ---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.
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The Steam auto-update thing I really like, just because it's completely hands-off. No installers, no updaters, no keeping an eye out for new patches, no reinstalled borked games. Just click buy, then click play. If there's an update, wait for it to finish then click play. It's an even nicer system than the consoles, IMHO, because I don't need to screw around with DVDs.
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on April 26, 2012, 12:32:14 pm ---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.
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You can stop that if you want but I guess I just live in a different world. I'm always connected so my stuff is never updating when I want to do something because it updated overnight or something else. Then again I have a server rack in the basement so maybe I do exist in a different world lol. Eitherway this doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's a moot point now days. Everything is connected, welcome to the information age.
Vigo:
If it wasn't Diablo, I would agree with Dervacumen 100%. There are a ton of games that are dead to me because I hate being nagged by online crap. I don't have any internet on my arcade machine, and a most games I play, I don't even touch online mode. I don't want to sign up for an online account for every friggen game I get. I don't want my game to spend 2 minutes looking for updates every time I start up.
Diablo is one of those games that you sorta get to play online....even though single player is killer as well. The stupid separation rules between single player and multiplayer irked me in Diablo II. I haven't played in a few years, but I remember that they would delete your character if you didn't play for a couple months. Then if I remember right they had an open version of online multiplayer where characters wouldn't get deleted, but you couldn't play with a friend on the regular online version because they couldn't cross over. To be honest, the system it is kinda foggy to me. All I remember is getting pissed when my online character got deleted when I took a break from the game. I just stopped playing completely. For Diablo III, if they just shove everything on the same online system and don't ever delete my characters on me, I will be happy as a clam.