[citation][nom]wildkitten[/nom]Honestly, is any objective person surprised?The whole argument of why you had to be online only for single player, to ensure single player items didn't end up on the RMAH, was destroyed when they announced you could play outside your region, but the drops you get from outside your region could not be placed on the RMAH. If they can ensure that inter-region items can't be placed on the RMAH, they could just as easily make sure offline single player items could not be placed on it as well.With all of the news late last year and the beginning of this year of features being removed, PvP being one example, who wants to bet these features show up in have to pay for DLC.Fact is, D3 smacks of Bobby Kotick-ish style of game development. I know when Vivendi bought Activision from him that he had some control of Activision Blizzard built into his contract, but still, until Vivendi wises up and fires him as CEO of Activision Blizzard he is going to destroy a lot of great game franchises. It's amazing how much of a hit Blizzard's reputation has taken since they were made a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard and under Kotick's control.[/citation]
when vivindi bought blizzard, they told bobby he cant lay a effing hand on blizzard.
not haveing pvp... i understand, its either another 6 months of waiting, or get it now
the online error well... imagine a ddos attack, but done manually, that's basally whats happening.
they let the game out because single player and multiplayer are done, and most errors in the game currently are things that a closed beta couldnt fix, because they are obscure things you have to do.
[citation][nom]ememememe2041[/nom]good, blizzard deserves to get mocked and told about their poor service!! they have had wow and sc2 for benchmarks and they should learn from their mistakes!![/citation]
wow grew slowly enough, but still i have heard the 2 hour waits to get online, and starcraft didnt require internet for anything but achievements.
this is NOTHING that could have ever been adaquitly prepared for, because even if you could play offline, the online portion would be broke, because everyone wants that first, offline is the diversion.
[citation][nom]dormantreign[/nom]Want to play a really good game with better graphics, check out Titan Quest. Even today it holds it own and there is none of the ALWAYS ONLINE s.h.i..t. Here's a comparison video i did on the two awhile back.youtube.com/watch?v=hR0-fhJ6qAc[/citation]
if there is one thing i hate in games its fog, i despise it, if thats in the full game... bad decision... also if the lag is that bad... wow... but aside from that, diablo 3 doesnt look graphicaly bad, minus the fog.
[citation][nom]bison88[/nom]With regards to the end of the article compared to Starcraft II's success, well, both Starcraft II and Diablo 3 are going to be a success, period. It's Blizzard and they are two different series where some will say broke grounds on there respective genre's. They sold a lot of copies and will make a lot of money, but success isn't always measured by sales, that's only in the corporate realm. A lot of people were disappointed with Starcraft II and felt that breaking the game into 3 separate pieces was a cheesy way for Blizzard to profit more off what they seen as one solid sequel. Not to mention people also bitched about the graphics, the units, and expected far more for the time they spent waiting and money that was thrown into it.Starcraft II has a die-hard community and pretty much defines e-gaming so its success was pretty much set in stone regardless so long as the game wasn't really really really bad which it was far from. It kept to the basics and did very little else. Whatever bad comes from Diablo 3 now will most likely only affect Diablo 4, and by that time people will probably have forgot all the bad things that happened during Diablo 3's release and will fall head over heels all over again.The forced connectivity to the Internet that these developers are doing with games is BULLSHIT. For multiplayer that makes sense, for single player you just break games when no connectivity is present suddenly you have a $60 coaster.[/citation]
ill fight you on that, diablo is a rouge like with the brutal difficulty taken out, just because it became popular doesn't mean it ever broke ground.
Overall its 9/10 for me...
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