deqer wrote on May 18, 2012, 11:39:
Ya, way to divide your resources amongst two things of the same category making yourself 50% useful in both games, rather 100% useful in one game that you could put all your resources into.

Bhruic wrote on May 16, 2012, 20:54:
That sounds like what Microsoft said about Internet Explorer in Windows. But that's just a backwards way of looking at it. Are the features "inseparable"? Possibly. But they are that way because Blizzard designed them to be that way. It's not an inherent trait of the features. They could easily have included the exact same feature set for people playing online, and had them not enabled when not.

Cutter wrote on May 16, 2012, 17:33:
And what or why are any of those things necessary for the SP portion of the game? The only thing it impacts is the AH. For those interested in only - or mostly - SP there is zero reason not to have an offline mode. No one is complaining about about being online to access those things or multiplayer. So if you're main thing is SP and you can't play because that portion of the game is entirely dependent on a company to play it - never mind what happens when they feel they want to pull the plug on it or start charging you subscription fees for a "premium" service that determines if you have to queue or not to play - then it's not only entirely fair to comapre the two, it's entirely apt. There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever, none, to not having an offline SP mode. Anything else is just trying to rationalize away people's feelings of hypocritcal guilt for lambasting Ubisoft all these years but caving on buying Diablo 3.

sauron wrote on May 16, 2012, 15:20:
I was reading Penny Arcade just now, and they summed this up perfectly:

KTR wrote on May 15, 2012, 23:45:
Uh...you do know that NCsoft is doing that on purpose?!?

Cutter wrote on May 15, 2012, 23:01:
None of it works becase the installer won't patch on certain 64 bit Vista/Win7 systems. It just hangs and won't update anything. So even if you could DL the full client the moment the updater starts you're fucked. And they've know this for a while now. That's just not dropping the ball, that's just shitting on customers.

Shok wrote on May 15, 2012, 23:34:
Ok, I'll bite. It is when all I want to play is single player and I'm forced online for inane DRM reasons when a single player component could have been developed in the 12 years between Diablo 2 and 3.

xXBatmanXx wrote on May 15, 2012, 18:00:
Your point is?
Name one game that hasn't had issues at launch in the last 10 years.

Downtime in mid afternoon on the first day? So what. It isn't as though people don't have things they SHOULD be doing anyway....let me guess...you didn't buy it...

Krovven wrote on May 15, 2012, 14:48:
Being mad about it is wasted energy, especially when we all knew this was inevitably what was going to happen.

Creston wrote on May 15, 2012, 14:07:
If you have 2 million pre-orders, and you ship an additional 3 million copies to stores, shouldn't you have launch capacity for 5 million copies? That doesn't seem like it's extremely difficult math.

But Blizzard figures they can easily get away with less, as people will complain, then get in, and keep playing, and stop complaining. And like I said, if you keep accepting that kind of behavior from a developer, don't be surprised if that's what you get.

theyarecomingforyou wrote on May 15, 2012, 12:21:
The game launched 18hrs ago in the UK and the servers are still too busy to connect to. Blizzard really screwed the pooch with this one. Very unimpressed.

Creston wrote on May 15, 2012, 11:01:
Any news on how this plays on less-than-stellar connections? And does it actually install on Win7-64? (Since the demo wouldn't?)

Steele Johnson wrote on May 14, 2012, 23:19:
I think the game is a lot of fun.

MadBoris wrote on May 14, 2012, 21:51:
No, not at all.
It's Blizzard's super saavy marketing strategies, something most gamers minds cannot withstand.

Ozmodan wrote on May 11, 2012, 11:56:
Doh, nothing of note in the way of games was released in April. Sometimes I wonder if the people that report this garbage have one iota of brainpower.

Cutter wrote on May 8, 2012, 15:58:
What bubble? There is no bubble. Clearly the author doesn't understand the concept of crowd-sourcing and why people like it. This isn't an investment strategy.

eunichron wrote on May 7, 2012, 13:11:
I've been with Verizon since 2003, in two different states, and honestly I couldn't be happier with them. I've never had a billing issue, service is excellent, every time I've upgraded my phone it's gone without a hitch, and they grandfathered in my unlimited 3G plan when I upgraded to a 4G phone.

Of course I haven't tried any other carrier so I can't compare, but in 9 years I haven't had a reason to change.