Creston wrote on Mar 16, 2012, 16:13:

Techie714 © wrote on Mar 16, 2012, 12:35:

Krovven wrote on Mar 16, 2012, 11:52:
I went to pay the $15 for the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter last night, they lost my money. Why not take direct CC payments, or even Paypal. I shouldn't have to sign up for Amazon's payment crap.

Most people have an Amazon account, It's not a big deal.

No, you don't get it. When some people have an issue with Diablo 3 being online only, that is not a big deal, because the large majority of people have stable, high speed internet, and it doesn't affect him, and the ones who are complaining about it are whiny crybabies.

When he has an issue with a payment processor for a kickstarter campaign, even though the large majority of people have an Amazon account, it IS a big deal, because it affects him.

See how that works?

Creston

Verno wrote on Mar 16, 2012, 14:04:
If you really want to boycott them for life over one incident then fair enough

Verno wrote on Mar 16, 2012, 12:23:
[You just sign in with your Amazon account dude

ASeven wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 21:32:
FRE... ahem. Well, Path of Exile is an indie F2P ARPG with persistent online connection as well. Some in the PoE forum compare it to Diablo 2 and call it the update that never happened to D2. The passive skill tree is massive, and by massive I mean this.

Dades wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 23:28:
Stop trying to save face fanboy, you had your chance and demonstrated your complete ignorance. An ehow article, just hilarious.

Dades wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 18:20:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 18:12:
I just enjoy getting fanboys like good ol Krowen here, panties all tied up in a bunch. What cracks me up about it all is the same people who "boycott" Ubisoft or EA for DRM have no qualms with it when it's from their precious overrated Blizzard.

The only person defending this doesn't even have a fucking clue or basic understanding of what's going on, it's pretty damned funny.

Bhruic wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 17:45:

Will you shut up now? Especially since you are clearly incapable of using Google yourself.

You really have no clue how Diablo 2 worked, do you? Offline mode saved characters locally. Online "Open B.Net" saved characters locally. So yes, you could use the method you described to get dupes into Open B.Net.

"Online" characters, however, were stored remotely. Closed B.Net, which is what most people who played online used, didn't have any save file for you to copy/replace. Nor could you cross-play with offline or open B.Net chars to allow for trading. Closed B.Net was just that - closed.

Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 17:21:

Offline and Online was separated in D2. This is what caused the problem, thus why it's online only now.

Do you have evidence to back this? A link, article?

I'd be interested to see why a complete OFFLINE mode character messed up B.Net.

One simple method of duping involves using your save file for the character you want to dupe with. Create a backup of the save file you will be using and log in to your account. Then, you can either trade your items to a trustful friend or, according to EEggs.com, if you have two computers have one host the game you'll be dropping your stuff on. Log off of your account after trading or dropping and minimize the game. Move the backup save to your save folder and overwrite the save.

After you pull the game back up and log into your account, you should notice all of your items are back into your inventory. Pick up the items you dropped or get them from your friend, and you'll have double. Use the doubles to store them, sell them for cash or trade to people who need those items.

Prez wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 17:09:

I get what you're saying, but I have two problems with your reasoning:

1) Evidence suggests that other online-only games continue to suffer from immense cheating issues; removing an offline component will not fix the issue, and,

2) Whatever cheats people used offline could be rendered useless by simply separating the offline and online components.

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 17:04:
LOL and within a week when people are trading with SOJ's or whatever high end item gets duped to shit and back with Diablo 3

Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 15:53:

Sure, but Krowen wants you to believe that Blizz is making D3 an online only game because the game itself should only be MP (which is a pile of crap).

Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 15:32:
orked pretty well for WarCraft... went from a SP/MP to an online only model... and they changed it to... wait for it.... here it comes... WORLD OF WARCRAFT. /facepalm? Yeah... have some.

Verno wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 15:09:
It's a totally valid concern and I suggest those affected vote with their wallets

Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 15:06:
Then it should have a different title than Diablo 3, as it is a substantial change from Diablo 1&2 based on your statement above.

Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 15:
Should have been called "World Of Diablo" or something to set correct expectations.

Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 15:
What a guy.

Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 13:19:
Your 100% correct, people are only "OK" with this because it is a Diablo game, this has been proven by Assassins Creed which got HAMMERED for having an always on, persistent connection to play SP.

Dev wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 12:38:
I wonder if its worth replaying the beta to get the achieves again and to see what the state of the game is. Like will they give any of the full achieve beta players anything in the real game (like a unique flag symbol, etc).

xXBatmanXx wrote on Mar 14, 2012, 04:55:
I am STILL in it....but no one logs in anymore. The quests I have now are to damn hard to do alone.