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Best Diablo 3 Announcement reaction gifs ever...
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on May 04, 2012, 10:37:54 am ---
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 04, 2012, 09:42:34 am ---So now we're into semantics.
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Even Captain Pedantic would be embarrassed.
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hmmm?
shmokes:
Y'all are barking up the wrong tree. By endorsing server-side DRM checks for multiplayer games but condemning it for single-player games you're shooting yourself in the foot. You're seducing reducing your argument to one of inconvenience, i.e., since you already have to be online for an online game the DRM check causes no inconvenience and is, hence, okay. But that's a tacit admission that online DRM check for a single-player game is also okay so long as it causes no inconvenience. Which is where your argument really begins to lose steam because you have an always-on internet connection and the DRM check happens in the background without you ever even being aware that it happened.
By saying there's a difference between online and offline games you are effectively endorsing the DRM check for both.
edit: lol, typo
Vigo:
1) I don't think anyone here arguing anti-single player DRM check is actually Pro online gaming DRM checking. Maybe ok with checking against hacks and cheats, but that is different from DRM.
2) You are still missing the point that people do not have an online connection in all cases. I might have online at home with my laptop, but not on the bus, a plane, my parent's house or at my office. If I like to play online at home with my $50 mouse, but play sinle player on the road since I only have the touchpad, the DRM is screwing the pooch there.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 04, 2012, 09:42:34 am ---Once you realize it's an MMO you get over the always on they want. It's an MMO, it has to be always on.
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Man you are just a troll bait chef, kudos! Scroll up and read what vigo posted, I'll wait.
Done? YAY! Lets get back to semantics, you say its an MMO? MMO meaning Massively multiplayer online?
http://www.diablowiki.net/Diablo_3_Basics
--- Quote ---The main focus of Diablo III is co-op PvE style play. Up to four players (yes, just four) will join up in a game and play together, and players in the same game are now always friendly and in the same party. There is no non-consensual PvP in Diablo III, and no way to "go hostile" in a PvE game. (All PvP takes place in the Arena, a feature that will not be ready for use upon Diablo 3's launch.)
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I hope my PC can handle 3 other players all at the same time. As for WoW, yes it counts, if you can pick some sort of mode where its single player and you don't allow others to join you game or effect your world at all.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 04, 2012, 06:23:59 pm ---By saying there's a difference between online and offline games you are effectively endorsing the DRM check for both.
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You're just reading more than whats posted , that's all. To me , it'd be stupid not to do some sort of online check for a online multiplayer game, if you can only play it online why wouldn't they validate? I would hope the server checking is more to stop hacking and cheating, which is supposed to be the purpose of what blizzard is doing. I already said I'm gonna be pissed when I try to play D3 and cant because my ISP sucks donkey dick. I don't recall anyone saying "Man it'd be ok if they server side DRM checked my single player game if it was convenient!"