Op Ed

GOG.com’s Trevor Longino - Diablo III style DRM could make us ‘lose a chunk of gaming history.”
Games like Diablo III with bespoke constantly online DRM could be lost to gaming culture at large if for any reason the games publisher or developer stops supporting that infrastructure. So when you lose that online connection, you lose a chunk of gaming history.

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eunichron wrote on May 28, 2012, 19:37:
Slashman wrote on May 28, 2012, 17:38:
Beelzebud wrote on May 28, 2012, 17:31:
Lord Tea wrote on May 28, 2012, 17:24:
Who would give a shit about D3 in 5, 10 years anyway?

The same type of people that still play Diablo 2, 12 years after its release date.

You'd think that would be obvious...

Forget Diablo 2, there are still people playing Diablo 1 on official B.net servers.

This more or less. While it is still an issue you can be concerned with, Blizzard has a stellar record here. I even installed D1 and fired up B.net to verify - it is still online. That has been going since 1996. I think Blizzard has proven that they can be trusted to not yank support on short notice.

In unrelated news that disc WAS SO DUSTY. How did that much dust get inside a CD case? The CD case itself wasn't dusty, only the disc inside... I blame Diablo himself!
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