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Diablo 15 Year Anniversary Website - Diablo III "Almost Done"

A Diablo 15 Year Anniversary Website is now online, marking this recent milestone for Blizzard's action/RPG. This offers an overview of the game, a Diablo timeline, an extended retrospective, developer interviews, and more. As noted on Blizzplanet, the interview with Jay Wilson offers an optimistic outlook on the state of Diablo III development: "We are almost done with Diablo III, and that’s a fitting celebration of the 15th year anniversary for Diablo. So, we are getting it to you as soon as we can."

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25. Re: Diablo 15 Year Anniversary Website - Diablo III Jan 5, 2012, 15:25 Cutter
 
Red wrote on Jan 5, 2012, 11:33:
As for requiring an online connection, the fact that you blast it pretty much tells me you're a troll or an idiot. That's got to be the most shallow excuse to belittle something I've ever heard. It's disgusting how small minded so many people are that they can't get over this. Almost every game I've played in the last 10+ years either requires a constant connection, or has an online/offline mode option where online is the only version I'd ever consider playing. Whether it's strictly for DRM purposes or because it enables the game creator to offer more features doesn't even matter. My computer is on the internet. Where's the issue? On a personal note, I'd much rather have a connection and benefit from the enhanced gameplay experience, progression backup, and cheat protection; offline mode offers absolutely no advantages except the temptation to ruin my own enjoyment.

This isn't the first time you've shilled for Blizzard and their new DRM. So, do you work for them or some viral marketing firm trying to sell people on this bullshit? You're obviously too smart, and write too well to be just another of the mindless consumer sheep who just bend over and take it, so yeah, I'm going to go with my first instinct which is shill.

So, Mr. Shill, tell us, what are all these games over the last decade which require and online connection? Excepting the obvious - which no one has a problem with - of MUDs/MMOs and co-op/multiplayer, as well as Ubisoft's failed stab at it, what are all these single-player games that require an internet connection to play. See, in the last decade of my 25 plus years of gaming not a single one comes to mind. Isn't that odd? Further, how does requiring a single-player to be online offer more features? Seems to me if they have to be online and can't be that they're actually getting less. It's what we used to call "crippleware".

So please explain - in exacting detail - how this "enhances" your gameplay. And what do you need cheat-protection from as a single-player playing a single-player game? Yourself? "What do you need protection from, Tommy? Zee germans?" How does being offline ruin your enjoyment? You don't not like having your habits tracked and sold to third party marketing vendors? You're unhappy when corporations who have no business in your personal life aren't spying on you and trying to figure better ways to prise you from your money, all while giving you less value for your dollar? Well, whatever floars your boat, Mr. Shill. See, for the rest of us, we don't need, and we especially do not want any of that crap, so you may as well go pound sand because you're not selling that corporate-whore BS line here. Kthnx.

P.S. This is the first Blizzard game I won't be purchasing. And given their current attitude I doubt I'll be buying anything else from them in future as well. At this point it's pretty much safe to say that my relationship with Actiblizz is over. If they ev er decide to pull their head of their ass, stop being greedy, respecting their customers and making games for gamers I'll happily reconsider my position at that point in time.
 
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