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Diablo III in February?

[Jan 08, 2012, 2:17 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Joystiq has an image of a store display in a Rochester, Minnesota Best Buy that seems to show a February 1 launch date for Diablo III, Blizzard's upcoming action/RPG sequel. They have some follow ups that don't completely confirm or deny this, and word that the end-cap was legit, but has since been removed. Meanwhile, the Best Buy Website now shows a February 1 release date for the game.

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Re: Diablo III in February?

Jan 10, 2012, 20:58

Prez

Krovven wrote on Jan 10, 2012, 19:57:
I never suggested you did. From my perspective I see a very fine line between online required and online optional. 5-10 years ago I would have leaned more the other way. In 2012 I lean heavily towards online required not being an issue.

All I did was ask you explain to me, how someone that spends so much time online (as I do) and has invested so much in games on Steam, mostly online, has the stance you are taking. Maybe I missed you stating something earlier in the thread, but in the posts I saw you hadn't actually explained why, and that's all I was asking for. I don't agree, but we don't have to agree.

It's true - I LOVE Steam. I have heard all of Steam's detractors and indeed share some of their concerns myself. In the end, just as you say you are aware of the possible pitfalls of always online gaming but have decided that the good outweighs the bad so have I in regards to Steam. That is not to say, however that we will share the same threshold of tolerance in all cases. We obviously don't here.

Steam does not restrict my ability to play offline, which given how often I travel to Internet dead zones is important to me. What Steam does take away in terms of consumer freedom it gives back 10-fold in my opinion There exists no such symbiosis in Blizzard's ill-conceived always online scheme.

So let's inventory:

Steam provides off-line functionality. Diablo 3 does not.
Steam offers beneficial trade-offs for what restrictions it imposes. Diablo 3 does not.
Steam provides choice in the way I play its SP games. Diablo 3 does not.

There's a difference between gaming online when I choose to and gaming online because I have to. I could go on, but my lengthy participation in this thread has already started drawing mouth-breathing morons like Gmann69 out of their hidey holes, which is to nobody's benefit.




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