"If you're paying upwards of $60 dollars for a game that you can't play when you choose to play it and you aren't complaining, you're contributing to the biggest problems that faces the game industry." That's a quote from a games journalist. I have to say, I couldn't agree more. The community needs to do something about it. It's insane. Single player always online connection required?! Eff that. Ubisoft tried to do this... and the back lash was so great that they always ended up releasing an offline patch. Usually together with there other 50 patches to fix whichever (read: every) game they rushed out the exit door ASAP in an unfinished state. DRM is an attempt at controlling gamers. If you can't play the game when you want, what's the point og paying the ££$$? You wouldn't spend £60 on a shirt, only to be told you can only wear it when the stores servers are up and have proof that you actually bought it. The same goes with this idea of banning used games. Or "locking" them without first acquiring some form of pass - it's this crazy idea that by exerting control over gamers that we're going to just accept it and be "yea, that's cool". The goodwill these companies are burning is getting a little too much and I will be avoiding all future products from Blizzard and indeed any company with restrictive DRM. Piracy, they seem to think is the problem. It's not. Greed is the problem. Look at how movies used to work, - First it came out on cinema, then a year later it came onto Video... then 6 months after that Sky. Then a year after that normal TV. Unsurprisingly, people on middle/low incomes or indeed without the time or energy to get their asses into a cinema didn't want to wait that long and piracy got a foot hold. Now it's on DVD within 6 months of a cinema realise. The door gets locked after the horse has bolted. Games now come out with restrictive DRM and after 6 months of complaints it's gets patched out. The people that suffer are the one who go out and buy the game on launch. Two options facing gamers:- 1) Accept it and continue to buy games from these companies - The same companies who shovel you paid DLC. 2) Do SOMETHING about it. Complain to their customer services. Email them everyday. Call them everyday. ANYTHING that takes up their time and resources is a good thing. Above all, DON'T but their games!! Protest will only work if it costs THEM and YOU something. It might cost you enjoying a game like Diablo 3 - but the cost to them is more measurable in ££ and that's what they care about.