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| News Comments > Diablo III DRM Problems |
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Re: Diablo III DRM Problems |
Sep 22, 2011, 18:38 |
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Was closed bnet really that bad towards the end?
Yes, and we're not at the end yet. Counted over 40,000 on USWest today. Problem is, how many of them are bots? Everyone has hacked Runewords within hours of a ladder reset. I had a good laugh after the last ladder reset, less then 24 hours after it I got the message that over 10,000 SOJ's had been sold to merchants (part of the pandemonium event deal). You can not play a public game anymore without having 4-8 bots slam your game within 5 minutes advertising websites, and it doesn't stop. The only way most people play end-game is if there is a bot running them through Hell Baal-Runs. Hacks are rampant, the list goes on. |
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| News Comments > Diablo III DRM Problems |
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Re: Diablo III DRM Problems |
Sep 22, 2011, 18:27 |
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PropheT wrote on Sep 22, 2011, 18:25:
DeadlyAccurate wrote on Sep 22, 2011, 17:28:
As soon as I heard of the always-on DRM, this became a no-buy for me, too. I had a situation a few weeks ago where my Internet connection kept flaking out. It's rare, but it does happen. And good grief, checkpoints on top of that? It's a PC! Let me save anywhere I want.
You couldn't save wherever you wanted in the other Diablo games either. The checkpoint system isn't exactly something new for the series.
Unless my brain is on fail mode, yes you could in both Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 (in single player offline mode) Now that option is gone, so is saving wherever you want. |
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| News Comments > Diablo III DRM Problems |
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Re: Diablo III DRM Problems |
Sep 22, 2011, 18:21 |
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Game developers have a right to DRM
People that pay $60 for a product have a right to not be f*cked around with, which is what DRM does (especially the more elaborate and invasive it gets). Simply by reading these comments one can see it's f*cking with people that would otherwise pay the $60. Sure some may buy it anyway, but that's not the point as it's obvious people are furious.
We're all going to have higher quality experiences, SP and MP, when piracy is a thing of the past.
Except that is never going to happen. It seems to be having the opposite effect, as those that would have normally bought the product without the DRM now have no problem pirating it and feel justified doing it.
Anyway, I will conclude by saying what I've said already a few times. I'm still buying it and see this DRM as a good thing for the way I personally have always played Diablo, but I sympathize with those that are getting screwed over.
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| News Comments > Evening Previews |
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Re: Diablo III Encounters |
Sep 22, 2011, 00:52 |
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dj LiTh wrote on Sep 21, 2011, 23:39:
they could of made it a fps (i'm looking at you xcom/syndicate).
Only one I look at is Hellgate London, the demon spawn child of one of Diablo 2's creators. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Sep 21, 2011, 17:17 |
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Cutter wrote on Sep 21, 2011, 16:47:
I'm curious, how are hacks a problem with a single-player game? Tell me again why I - as a single-player - always need to be connected?
I may be wrong in this assumption; I am under the impression that one reason is they want to store everything (all related files) that has to do with items and item spawning etc on the server. I believe most if not all the closed battle.net D2 realms exploits were a result of people being able to manipulate files on their systems and somehow alter the game on the closed realms. Dupes, hacks and all exploits on closed realm were, I again assume, a result of client side manipulation. Take those files away and don't code the game for client side item generation, and you lose single player offline mode. Offer a single player offline mode of any kind, and the files are again on client side and the closed realms may be at risk.
To clarify, this is just an assumption. If there is merit in this, I appreciate the reasoning as I would have been playing online only anyway and I do plan on selling items on the RMAH.
Edit: So, if this assumption is correct and one reason they're doing what they're doing than you, as a single player, are losing out because Blizzard took sides and sided with multiplayer; and to make multiplayer more secure, single player had to go (all related files and code remain on the server only). Then there's all the other reasons and conspiracies others are peeved about.
This comment was edited on Sep 21, 2011, 17:26. |
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| News Comments > Diablo III Auction House to Use Paypal |
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Re: Diablo III Auction House to Use Paypal |
Sep 15, 2011, 02:19 |
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| I remember selling Arreats face a few days after expansions release for nearly $200 USD almost immediately after posting it. Those were gooooood times. $380 for Oculus, damn son. |
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| News Comments > Diablo III Footage, Beta This Month? |
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Re: Diablo III Footage, Beta This Month? |
Sep 3, 2011, 03:32 |
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| I can't say how D3's graphics will effect the game down the road. Should be interesting to watch, but right now, imo, I find it difficult to see graphics being in any way one of this games downfalls. Nothing Blizzard ever released was graphically up-to-date for the time at which the game was released. |
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| News Comments > Diablo III Footage, Beta This Month? |
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Re: Diablo III Footage, Beta This Month? |
Sep 3, 2011, 03:11 |
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eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 3, 2011, 02:58:
But it'll also absolutely kill all modding, and the mods the only thing keeping D2 alive right now.
Tell that to the 50,000 people that were online playing Ladder on US-West earlier today. Granted a few dozen of them (lol?) were bots, still. Modding is great, it's not solely what's keeping the game alive. The game itself is simply a timeless classic for many many people in its original state.
Graphics. Well back in 2000 when Diablo 2 was released, everyone was bitching about how dated it looked too. 11 years later, again, 50,000 people are still playing it online on one of few available realms. I do not disagree with your opinion about what we've seen maybe looking dated, but it looks substantially better than D2, and I still love D2 graphics. I still love D1's graphics, for that matter. Note that a lot of what we've seen on the beta have been shaky cam, or ninja'd screenshots, or shots taken on blatantly bad computers. The latest batch of beta ninja'd screenshots were taken by somebody playing on a non-widescreen monitor at weak resolution. According to sources, they were taken by some recently fired Blizzard employee. They look so bad, infact, that it almost seems like this person purposely took as awful quality screenshots as they possibly could just to instigate more graphic flame war discussions on fan sites. No one will really know until they load up the game themselves on max settings as to how it really looks, I guess.
I don't know anything about Grim Dawn, I will look into it. PoE, still waiting for my beta invite with anticipation. Torchlight 2, day one buy.
This comment was edited on Sep 3, 2011, 03:27. |
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| News Comments > Serious Sam 3: BFE Help Line Trailer |
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Re: Serious Sam 3: BFE Help Line Trailer |
Sep 2, 2011, 20:22 |
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Sphinx wrote on Sep 2, 2011, 20:14:
It's like they scanned my brain and made this video from my thoughts. Well, they forgot Salma Hayek dancing around lingerie but close enough for now.
The vid does hilariously address almost every complaint I've read about in regards to modern FPS games. |
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| News Comments > Mists of Pandaria TM Follow-up |
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Re: Mists of Pandaria TM Follow-up |
Sep 1, 2011, 10:37 |
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| I have issues believing they'd devote an entire expansion of their game to something to do with Panda people. That's my problem though. MoP isn't a very attractive acronym either. |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Serious Sam Double D |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - Serious Sam Double D |
Aug 30, 2011, 21:19 |
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Ecthelion wrote on Aug 30, 2011, 21:10:
Cram wrote on Aug 30, 2011, 20:48:
One, changing resolutions is brutal (you have to go one at a time and it refreshes each time), and at 720p (1920x1080 resolution not available for some reason) on my 16:10 monitor I get nearly 2 inch black bars (forget the technical name for these) on the top and bottom of the screen. No idea why it isn't using my entire monitor.
720p and 1080p are both 16:9, so on a 16:10 monitor, they will show black bars since they're "wider" than your monitor. It's the same reason why both 16:9 and 16:10 video sources will show black bars on a 4:3 display, or why movies that are wider than 16:9 will show black bars on any standard aspect ratio screen.
Most new monitors and TVs are 16:9 these days, and some developers aren't bothering to include 16:10 support in their games anymore. Sad but true. Anyway, since this game is apparently going to be on Xbox Live Arcade and the PS3 store, they probably figure that 16:9 is all they need to support.
I appreciate the info. I actually did a double check on this monitor. My apologies, it turns out my monitor is 16:9 and I'm an idiot.
Asus VW246H
I should have known it was 16:9 anyway, as I do almost everything at 1920x1080 res on this thing. I assume the Serious Sam DD is some kind of video issue, or it's just designed this way for some reason.
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Serious Sam Double D |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - Serious Sam Double D |
Aug 30, 2011, 20:48 |
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Grabbed a copy. I like it so far, except for a couple things. One, changing resolutions is brutal (you have to go one at a time and it refreshes each time), and at 720p (1920x1080 resolution not available for some reason) on my 16:10 monitor I get nearly 2 inch black bars (forget the technical name for these) on the top and bottom of the screen. No idea why it isn't using my entire monitor. Second, the jumping is a bit of a challenge at times.
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| News Comments > Torchlight 2 Classier, Not Pricier |
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Re: Torchlight 2 Final Class and Price Revealed |
Aug 26, 2011, 15:17 |
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Game is a day one pickup for me, and I am certainly surprised they didn't put a $29.99 price-tag on this one, they could have gotten away with it easily. The game is substantially bigger than the first one.
Question for people:
Will you still be singing Runic's praises when Torchlight 3, the subscription based (or possibly F2P micro-transaction) MMO, comes out?
Over the years here at Bluesnews, I've seen people praise a company one day and then do complete 180's when that company takes one of their franchises down the MMO route. Words like "greed" and "sell-out" take over those threads.
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Aug 25, 2011, 21:06 |
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We will see, but somehow I doubt it'll happen. I appreciate the concept is pre 2009 startrek canon.
Edit: One thing this really has going for it is that Brannon Braga and Rick Berman do not appear to have their names attached to it. |
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