Prez wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 17:26:
Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 15, 2012, 17:21:
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.
Well, a link on that might be a mite tough to dig up (I can't find one, anyway), but at least explain to me how a completely offline mode can in some way negatively affect the online multiplayer game. I'm not seeing it.
I think when most people make a claim like that it was because it was in OPEN B.net, where you could convert your SP characters into MP characters. This made Open B.net for Diablo 2 full of duped and hacked items. Some people just forget that there were two MP modes for Diablo 2, and that most people played on Open rather than Ladder (closed). Open was Blizzard's way of appeasing the dupers/item hackers from Diablo 1, just giving them their own multiplayer playground.
I played Diablo 2 Ladder almost exclusively, and duping was very rare, and they usually got squashed pretty quickly. Though, that is still no justification for online singleplayer.