Comments on: [Diablo 3] Blizzard, like Atlas, try to carry the weight of the world on their servers

By: PB

PB — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:15:29 +0000

Is it just me that has a sneaking suspicion that all the “I’m not going to play this becuase it needs an internet connection” comments that you see about this game should really be translated as “I can’t pirate this game so I’m not going to play it”?

I’m guessing the number of players that Blizzard has lost from this move is huge. I’m guessing the number of sales that it’s lost is in the end pretty minimal. Just a hunch.

By: Daraxis

Daraxis — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:36:38 +0000

I actually haven’t used a companion yet because I’ve been multiplaying my way across various characters. That’s the part I love the most – click a friend’s name, join their game immediately. Click their banner and immediately get in on the action wherever they are. Drop game when you’re done and they keep going. It’s very, very streamlined and fun.

The icing on the cake is that your friends list maintains a list of battletags for people you’ve grouped with recently that aren’t actually on your friends list. Very slick.

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:42:06 +0000

You mirror my thoughts so well! I just switched to the scoundrel because I couldn’t take the blabbering of the templar anymore, and I didn’t notice him doing any healing whatsoever. The scoundrel is at least fun to have around and seems to do a bit of pew-pew. I thought the templar order sounded pretty effed up, based on my conversations with the templar.

The level of detail in the torture chambers is quite splendid. If you like the gross stuff.

I am on the US servers, so I don’t even know if you guys ever received my realID request. Probably not. The region thing is baffling.

By: badjawa

badjawa — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:55:50 +0000

Wotcha,

I hope I am not that sleazy, but I will admit that I love good trez, and I love beating up monsties for their pocket money, and the trez they’re carrying. Yes, the Trez Goblin *is* my copilot, and he *does* tell me I look fabulous wearing epics and positively dripping gold.

Thanks for your post; it’s really nice reading something that talks about Diablo 3 in calm and measured terms, rather than using the entitled hyperbole of nerdrage which seems to be prevalent (check out Amazon’s reviews, for example).

Cheers,
Hawley.

By: ZombiePirateXXX

ZombiePirateXXX — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:26:53 +0000

As soon as I found out that I’d need to have an Internet connection to play a game that is ostensibly single player I wrote off buying it. As much as I love the Diablo franchise I will not purchase a game that is going to force me to connect online, especially for something I could see me playing on a laptop when I’m off in places that don’t have a net connection. I know they’re doing it for the anti-piracy thing etc… but I’m not happy about this development. (Also worth noting that I don’t perform piracy. I purchase all my software and entertainment media legally).

By: Darth Solo

Darth Solo — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:04:30 +0000

Well said. These are my thoughts almost exactly. This game is awesome, for me. As for the launch, it was fairly smooth for me. I had to wait 1.5 hours before I could log in but after that everything was peachy.

By: Robert Ramsay (@MothTwiceborn)

Robert Ramsay (@MothTwiceborn) — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:14:47 +0000

A single player game which needs a bunch of remote servers to be up so you can play it? ARSE!!!!

I now have lag in my single player game.

But I shall still be playing it A LOT. If Blizzard will let me.

By: tjedgar

tjedgar — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:09:10 +0000

I commedn you on being what seems to be the only person on the planet, not playing a Monk ! ! !