Lots of game use the always online for DRM purposes.   If you are having a fit over such a feature I believe you are going to be missing out on most of the good games currently offered and what is coming in the future.

Personally I have not had one problem witht the game and am having fun.

I just finished Reg and HM..in about  4 days played and playing about 6 hours a day....This is a joke...paid $60.00 for 12 years of dev? Don't get me wrong there are good aspects but the story was so short! the graphics are pathethic..Range classes are so OP my DH didn't die once from Act1 to fighting Diablo in heaven on reg.. HM is just cut and paste harder mobs bs...I was expecting a insane epic story line. I don't care what anyone has to say this is a rip off.!

Not to mention the community is just full of Barrens chat talk...The crafting is linear and boring..and Yes I have heared this isn't an MMO well if it isn't? or you aren't trying to give it that fele then why make is online acess only? for hackers who will make items and spawn gold everywhere..So what! Diablo was great because the feeling of single players was just amazing..This is a complete and utter sh*t pile of  game trying to appease the WoW masses..

Way to fail hard Blizzard! I thought Tera was bad...Atleast they are aware of there failure...

I have been slowplaying Diablo 3...but, you're right it isn't a very big game. It's kinda aimed at the casuals out there, and the online experience isn't anything special.

Originally posted by Illyssia

I have been slowplaying Diablo 3...but, you're right it isn't a very big game. It's kinda aimed at the casuals out there, and the online experience isn't anything special.

This is why D3 shouldn't be discussed on an mmo forum....it's not an mmo and people are dead set in the MMORPG mindset.

D3 is hardcore, permadeath is hardcore although it can be played casually don't think this is the game. Completing the game on normal mode is akin to playing the training missions on an mmorpg. It's practice for the harder modes.

Every other post is about players completing normal mode in a few hours and QQing there is nothing else to do. Newsflash, you haven't completed anything, you haven't even begun to play the game.

D3 has it's faults, but not being an mmorpg isn't one of them.

Originally posted by KickinPups2

I just finished Reg and HM..in about  4 days played and playing about 6 hours a day....This is a joke...paid $60.00 for 12 years of dev? Don't get me wrong there are good aspects but the story was so short! the graphics are pathethic..Range classes are so OP my DH didn't die once from Act1 to fighting Diablo in heaven on reg.. HM is just cut and paste harder mobs bs...I was expecting a insane epic story line. I don't care what anyone has to say this is a rip off.!

Not to mention the community is just full of Barrens chat talk...The crafting is linear and boring..and Yes I have heared this isn't an MMO well if it isn't? or you aren't trying to give it that fele then why make is online acess only? for hackers who will make items and spawn gold everywhere..So what! Diablo was great because the feeling of single players was just amazing..This is a complete and utter sh*t pile of  game trying to appease the WoW masses..

Way to fail hard Blizzard! I thought Tera was bad...Atleast they are aware of there failure...

Take your training wheels off, jack up the difficulty and start playing the real game.

You are still in the tutorial.

I saw my friend playing the game and I have to say it seems to be a very good game. But once he showed me the end of the story and the final battle against Diablo, I was somehow shocked and asked him "Did you completed the story in 1 day?". With his answer "Yes", I lost my interest in it. 

So I have a question: playing in harder modes will give you more story? or at least some parts of the story that he never saw? What about using other classes? Or is the story the same everytime you play it?

Originally posted by Shealladh

Originally posted by Soulrift

My offline never-connected-to-the-internet Diablo 2 was perfectly immune to outside hackers.

Agreed, online connection with DRM for a single player game. Blazzard are tools

Blizzard are not tools, as they did well in disigning this money machine. I mean, look at it, not only do they have people pay full price up front but then take cuts when gamers trade virtual properity with each other. Then are fearsely defended by the general fanbase. They are an inspiration to scammers everywhere!

well I have already been hacked and all my account gold stolen

After giving this game a fair shake with a friend's referral code (I got 2 characters to lvl 11), I was left with one burning question. It took them how long...for this? The game is OK, but it's way too simple and plays like it's 15 years old. I'm just not sure what the draw is. To each their own I guess. /shrug

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

Oh wow thats extremely sad! Only 2.2 million pre-orders and they sadly included the 1.4 million free copies. So they didn't even break 1mil on pre-orders for Diablo 3? lololol

 

2.2million pre-orders

1.4million were given to WoW annual subscribers

 

800k actual pre-orders for Diablo 3........ epic!

Or maybe it's the most pre-ordered game of all time? 

Originally posted by jpnole

Originally posted by dubyahite
Guys, this is no longer a single player game. That's just the way it is. The meultiplayer aspects of this game are always enabled.

People can join your game even if you want to play single player. The game has an economy, a real world economy soon for that matter.


This is no longer an offline single player game. It is an online multiplayer game that can be played solo.

The game is structured like an mmo. Characters, mob spawns, item drop tables, and many other things are hosted online. This goes far beyond DRM. This is a game that is designed with online multiplayer gameplay in mind.

No other game designs a client/server architecture like this solely for drm. It is the way the game is designed from the ground up to be played online.


Now, you are entitled to your opinion. If you don't like that design decision don't buy it. That is your only recourse.

If you are against online games, don't play them. Makes me wonder why you are on this site though. Mmorpg.com......

No they can't. Now if you choose to make your game public then, yes, they can join.

 

Yes they can if they are on your friends list. 

Yes they can if they are on your friends list. 

You can still turn it off, it's in social options.

Haters will hate...I don't think people remember, but a certain "other blizzard game" had a horrible launch that took them over a month and over double the servers they originally bought.  I've been playing it non-stop (already in hell boo lol) and it's getting better.  As the writer stated, this was only about 40 hours after launch when he wrote this. and everything he said was true.  The first three days or so were pretty bad, but now it seems they have it all worked out.  I've only been disconnected once since then.  Although sometimes I still get partnered with someone from korea or japan or whatever those squiggly lines are, and they lag out.

Originally posted by Gravarg

Haters will hate...I don't think people remember, but a certain "other blizzard game" had a horrible launch that took them over a month and over double the servers they originally bought.  I've been playing it non-stop (already in hell boo lol) and it's getting better.  As the writer stated, this was only about 40 hours after launch when he wrote this. and everything he said was true.  The first three days or so were pretty bad, but now it seems they have it all worked out.  I've only been disconnected once since then.  Although sometimes I still get partnered with someone from korea or japan or whatever those squiggly lines are, and they lag out.

It has nothing to do with hate. Just because you aren't experiencing issues doesn't mean everyone else isn't either.

Originally posted by Soulrift

My offline never-connected-to-the-internet Diablo 2 was perfectly immune to outside hackers.

Amazingly so was mine. Even better.... when I wanted to play it always worked. No error 37.

The customer is always right!!! the reason gamers get so pissed off is because well... The game industry has never treated us like customers and tells us to go %^&*() our selves when we demand what we paid for.

Originally posted by Ishkal

The customer is always right!!! the reason gamers get so pissed off is because well... The game industry has never treated us like customers and tells us to go %^&*() our selves when we demand what we paid for.

 The customer is almost never right. The customer, even an unreasonable one is always  the customer.