Blizzard Investigating Nasty Diablo III Lag Issue

[exfileme]

Blizzard is asking Diablo III gamers affected by the recent lag to provide trace route information.

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[knowom]

"cool features that can only be delivered by an Internet connection, such as local chat"

Grim Dawn thanks Crate with cool features such as a LAN play and cool online features such as chat and private servers so you don't need to play with spammers and bots! Along with cool features such a semblance of game balance, quirky builds are functional, lastly team play and builds that don't look and feel like a after thought tacked on.

 

[FCsean]

Yes offline mode for sure.

 

[photonboy]

ONLINE vs OFFLINE:

Why not let us CHOOSE with a HUD element?

Default to ONLINE if you wish but let us choose OFFLINE if we want.

 

[Jim90]

"cool features that can only be delivered by an Internet connection, such as local chat"
...???

-->erm... single player!!
ok..take two, please convince us with one good reason why an internet connection is needed (and remember, we've already passed the DRM bit during initial install).

 

[Vecinul]

Maybe in an online enviroment Blizzard can control the game better and not let hacks for crafting lot, that would eventually distroy the game....

 

[codo]

blizzard is, by far, the worst company in the whole industry. haven't done a thing right since LOD. them and activision, and terrible cancer on the entire medium

 

[Au_equus]

^+1
They're competing with EA for the WCOY awards.

 

[SMOKEMlST]

the game is dead anyway

 

[lpedraja2002]

Anyone with common sense knows that their reason for online only is for the money. An offline mode could have been added easily and made so that offline characters and items couldn't be used in online mode as to not affect balance.

 

[derekullo]

Anyone with common sense knows that their reason for online only is for the money. An offline mode could have been added easily and made so that offline characters and items couldn't be used in online mode as to not affect balance.

I don't see how they would make money with online diablo 3.
Doesn't require a monthly fee and I don't see any advertisements ingame.

 

[stormflakes]

and that is why i will never buy a game that can only be played via servers that are always mended as cheap as possible.

 

[stormflakes]

games get crazier by the second.
Like gta V. They charge you 60$ for the game and then you can buy ingame cash for some more $$$.

I vote we all go outside and play pingpong.

Well ... not outside, inside will do me just fine. Things don't need to turn into complete anarchy.

I don't like ping pong either, too much harsh languague when playing.

DAMN YOU games industry with your buggy servers and your ingame money!

 

[surphninja]

I play single player D3 on xbox all the time. Can they tell me which amazing features I'm missing exactly?

 

[Hydrotricithline]

Always connected is DRM. Blizzard can sell it however they want to. Online authenticated/account based DRM is the only successful DRM to date. Even Online authentication with an offline mode (eg. windows authentication) Gets cracked and pirated within seconds. Requiring always being online.. not hard.. as an account will only usually allow a single login.. ghosting itself. You give someone else your battle.net login or game key? good job; you'll never play the game you bought again because someone else will be on your account or linking your game activation to their account instead. It sucks because you end up getting games (like titanfall for example) that could have a great offline mode or single player games if you don't want or don't currently have a Internet connection, Instead the publishers are forced to give these laim excuses, but it offers more content.. or we decided to concentrate completely on the integrated multiplayer experience. Where I'm more than hesitant to buy either of those excuses, online always is DRM; the only effective one. On the bonus side always online DRM usually will push publishers to have more robust online content and offerings as opposed to some arena only style of slapped together unbalanced multiplayer games you'd find released around 2000.

My thoughts;
Not yours.

 

[ninjustin]

Lag was one of the reasons I stopped playing. Nothing like playing a wizard and missing the creatures you were aiming for or over casting spells made it unplayable at times. I did come back and play later and the lag was at least consistently better. Still a game that can lag out while playing a single player is an egregious sin.

 

[hixbot]

I've been playing Diablo 3 ROS offlien on console for long time. "Baked into the game" my a$$.