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[QUOTE="vivekraikkonen"]
Its kinda weird, somebody making a new profile talking up the game of GS forum about the beta, this close to the actual game's release.
Anyways, I'm gonna have to ignore Diablo 3 at this moment sadly. I can't see the wisdom of having an always-on internet DRM even when playing single-player; I travel a lot and don't always have internet.
I'll probably wait for price drops, pick it up on cheap and then get a crack. Its sad really but its easier to run pirated games these days than legit ones. And I used to think that blizzard were a pro-consumer company. Although I pretty sure Acti-f**king-vision had something to do with that DRM.
vivekraikkonen
Do you understand that you can't crack D3 because all data is stored on their servers like in WoW. All you can do is make a private server which will be a lot worse and buggy than official one. Always on-line means it will be easier for them to deal with hacks and bots, having this DRM benefits them and players. At last Blizzard is smart enough not to pay attention to narrow minded kids like you, I respect them for that.Look, I genuinely have no interest in how their online DRM works. And I can't see how it is of any benefit to me, considering I will probably have to pass on this game because of that always-online thing. If I'm not wrong, I'm not alone in this and a lot of people have already complained about it. Heck, go the the main GameSpot page today, Laura Parker has criticised it. Not everybody has internet available to them 24x7.
You have an always-on internet, you can play this. Good for you. That doesn't make it any more convenient for the rest of us that don't. Read that post again, I never said I was gonna pirate the game, I never have done, never will. You have to understand the difference between picking a game up cheap on sale and stealing it.
My job requires me to travel a lot and I spend a lot of time sitting alone in a hotel room in remote places where my only pass-time is playing single player games on my laptop. I don't think it is too much for me to ask from a game that I've PURCHASED to let me play SINGLE-player hassle-free.
And perhaps this will be too much for you to understand that I said I'll have to download a crack EVEN AFTER I will purchase it; whether it works or not thats another matter. Its that DRM thats gonna make me get that crack even after buying it; or not going to let play the game at all even after purchase, which seems likely now; going by your explaination of the DRM that you "respect" Blizzard so much for.
I never realized that having a 24x7 internet connection was a compulsary requirement for gaming, especially for single-player. Go back just a few years, take even Diablo 2 for that matter. Diablo 2 didn't have any DRM, I bought it and played the hell out of it; so did millions of others. Those who wanted to play online still played online just alright, people like me were happy with the single-player experience they got out of the game. Blizzard made millions from that game, going a long way in making Blizzard what it is now. All that without a DRM.
You quote me WoW as example. I hope you do realize the difference between a single-player and a MMO game.
In the end, I'll probably end up ignoring Diablo 3 and picking up Torchlight 2 whenever that comes out. Atleast it won't have me dealing with the hassles of DRM to play single-player. Its the DRM thats making Blizzard lose out on my purchase, as well as other like me. Good luck respecting that. And lets see how many copies of Diablo III get pirated and how many it prevents.
Oh btw, calling someone "narrow-minded kid" on a public forum is the not really the way to get your point across.
You have a point that not everyone can be always on-line, that means game is not for those people. Blizzard said hundreds of times that D3 was designed as co-op multiplayer game. D3 built on a client/server architecture unlike D2, you can't pirate it, the game won't work properly. Look at D2, full of hacks/bots/dupes... Why should Blizzard make hacking aceccable just because bunch of people can't be on-line? Why should I listen to some Laura Parker that babbles some nonsense and has no idea what D3 is about? Come on dude this is just silly. 
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