Bhruic wrote on May 16, 2012, 00:20:
As long as they had "internet connection required", and "no guaruntee of server availability", they're almost certainly fine.
I'm pretty sure "no guarantee of server availability" wasn't a bullet-point on the box. If you don't know about it at the time of purchase, then you should certainly be offered a refund.
Zanthar wrote on May 15, 2012, 17:39:
I can live with the server downtime if it stops all the damn cheating and duping in the previous games. Only time will tell if that's the case though.
An offline mode where characters can never go online would have had no effect on the security of the online game. It would, however, have allowed people to play the game they paid 60 bucks for.
Krovven wrote on May 15, 2012, 17:12:
MadBoris wrote on May 15, 2012, 16:53:
What may be stranger still, is that there is still a horde of Blizz fanboys still actively dismissing issues on the D3 boards, aggressively at those that bring up the obvious. It's like a blind cult.
Then there is polar opposite folks that are bitching and trolling the boards when they didn't even buy the game. You balance each other out.
Not trolling, just a good ol' fashioned "told ya so" to all those fanboys who were blaming all the issues during the open stress test weekend on the fact that it was beta and a stress test, and claiming that everything would be fine at release. You know who you are.
Having to deal with losing progress in a single-player game because some server puked or your net connection got screwy for a minute is just really really stupid.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell (I think...)