No LAN for Diablo III Too?

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I'm all for online play, NOT. We here in South Africa / Rest of Africa have real crappy ping trying to play any game on a another continent. Not to mention all the LAN parties that will never happen again!
Some clever ah heck somewhere will implement LAN support, viva revolution!
 
I'm all for online play, NOT. We here in South Africa / Rest of Africa have real crappy ping trying to play any game on a another continent. Not to mention all the LAN parties that will never happen again!
Some clever ah heck somewhere will implement LAN support, viva revolution!
 
All blizzard has to do is sell a server edition. It should require an internet connection for authentication of the game keys.

And they'd probably sell it for $150... at least it'd show they tried, right?
 
That's not as bad as starcraft. no lan support will kill mods even before they appear (that's what you use tcp games on diablo 2 for in the first place), but battle.net is where the action is anyway. At least in theory. If the launch of D3 will go the same way as D2, then it'll be a mess. Back then telias hosting servers were so slow that even my old 56k modem I used wasn't the limiting factor, and even today those diablo realms are less stable than an ecs discount motherboard.
Worst part of being married to battle.net is the poor and scarse support you get when something goes wrong. Doubt they'll fix that, as wow billing support seems to use the same staff.
 
[citation][nom]stromm[/nom]I've played computer games since the late 70's. I think it's pitiful that kids would rather play sitting all alone in a dark room than with a group of friends in a LAN party. I much prefer LAN parties because of that social interaction. Much the same reason I liked D&D. I still play Diablo 1&2 over LAN because it's more fun that way. Tried online many times and got sick of hackers, cheaters and just plain aholes who screwed with everyone instead of being serious about the game.[/citation]

At the last lan party I held we actually played diablo 2 on lan. Primarily because battle.net had eaten the 4th set of cd keys and I was fresh out. Lan parties are a great way to be on a short vacation from your family - and I think most families need that sort of vacation now and then. Great way to socialize really.
 
[citation][nom]quitoman[/nom]I buy games because they are well made and fun, not because they don't support an optional feature. It's not like the headline said "No Multiplayer for Diablo III!"I just find it funny that people are so stuck up about their opinion that they won't pay money for a good single player and online experience.[/citation]

its called "consumer expectations" or something. some proper marketing term tho, generally it means some functionallity your market will expect, usually this comes from a previous similar product(s) having the functionallity. and if consumer expectations are not met - especially for no good reason (that is something the CONSUMER sees as a good reason, not the MARKETER) - we are well within our rights to be pissed off, even if hypothetically, we would not have missed the functionallity had it not appeared in a previous similar product. in extreme cases, legal action is even justified if a product doesn't meet some of the basic consumer expectations (obviously not in this case).
 
Wow, I was looking forward to this game,guess not now though. I know my one sale means nothing to them but they won't be getting it none the less.
 
All this talk of LAN play makes me want to organize one for my friends its been over a year since we had one.....

I don't have a dog in this fight, never played either Diablo or Starcraft, or any Blizzard game for that matter, so I will not comment about what sounds like a bad idea for people that play LAN games.
 
Well, I was going to buy both Diablo III and Starcraft II (I always buy legit copies of games I play).

As it turns out, I'll pirate these instead. I have plenty of money to burn on games, but Blizzard are not getting any. That's for sure 🙂

1) No matter what you say, LAN latencies are always better than when data is going via Internet servers.

2) Blizzard has made good money with WoW, it's so huge -- B's a rich company (unless they've really screwed up something). I won't tolerate this greed.

This is my decision -- I know I am only one person. But the population on this planet consists of individual persons, and I have to do what I must 🙂
 
Yaay another Blizzard title I will not buy... Listen everyone it is simple. Dont like it, dont buy it. Vote with your money and money will talk if they find they didnt make the money they thought they would. But when idiotic companies like this think they are doing themselves a favor by removing a basic feature like LAN play for the sake of promoting their suckatude online servers, then it only tempts the fate of those that would reverse engineer the application in question just to say they can.

I for one will vote with my wallet and never let Blizzard see a penny of it. I highly doubt as mentioned there will be 12 people that dont buy their LAN disabled games. They are increasing the number of people who will hold out on the games by continuing down this path of self righteousness. On principle alone, I will not buy this game, because it sends a message to Blizzard that this behaviour is acceptable to me and that I will lay down and take it... That this type of game is what I want to see on store shelves.... Hopefully they wise up to their unwise decisions and let those that made them who they are rejoice in all that is good gaming, including local LAN's that those that are only coming into gaming can even imagine...

Bunch of newb monkeys ruining things lately for us... Screw you Blizzard if you want to shape gaming to your own desires... There will be those that listen to their consumers that reap the benefits...

I dont care how big you are, if you dont listen to your consumers, you are destined for failure, it is only a matter of time... The trail of dead gaming companies and software/hardware manufacturers litter the pages of geekdom...
 
What if the BNet servers go down, or what if it becomes too slow?

Also, in my location accessing US servers gives me a ping of around 400ms++, Auzzy servers 300ms+, euro servers 200ms+. So in short Blizzard doesn't want me to pay and play because I'm simply in a geographic location that doesn't have a nearby server!

Me and my friends were planning to buy this game, but I guess we'll pass on this one.
 
Its annoying.... I remember Diablo II, I played it with a select group of friends only on battle.net until one of us got their CD key banned for using the maphack (which we all used together in our games and all consented to)...

This will mean no mods, no playing the game in any way other than intended, and if Blizzard ever want to take away the game you PAID for they can.

I probably won't buy either game now, but with Blizzard being so huge now thanks to the cesspool that is WoW, I don't suppose they will really care!
 
Before Valve released steam, hl+mods players used the warez pirated version to play on WON servers, but after they swtiched to steam, account system, and took down WON network, now every kid i know that had pirated hl+mods, actually bought the games to continue playing, so valve did the right thing to capitalize on their games, so blizard can do this as well, its 2000 fucking 9, internet is cheap and everywhere, and if you got a rig to play starcraft 2, you DO HAVE INTERNET


lans with no internet = warez fest
lans with internet = warez fest + some legit gaming (due to Steam games etc)

a lan with no internet is like goign to a party with no beer, get my drift? just cough up 1 more dolar for free internet at lan

 
Just came to my mind. What will happen to non-blizzard hosted competitions? They will have no _legal_ way to organize the competition, right?
 
What do you think game development is for Blizzard and EA? It's all about MONEY and that's absolutely OK.
 
I guess none of you guys ever played diablo2
Diablo is all about Online Gaming, wasting time on Lan games meh
its the kind of thing blizzard can remove anyday, just dont make diablo3 like WOW, and what the hell we need all the seven expansion characters in diablo3!!!
Blizz WAKE UP
 
[citation][nom]joz[/nom]Diablo 3 III LE!(Lan Edition)Only $89.99 + tax![/citation]

Of course if they did this it would be pirated to no end.
 
This is pretty sad news. You can pretty much thank pirates for this. However there are other ways to counter piracy and still incorporate LAN play. Look at BF2, Company of Heroes, etc. Too bad they won't make a compromised solution like that.
 
Never played D1 or D2 over LAN, always played it on b.net
Still buying it.
Guess I am a minority here, but this decision to remove LAN has no effect on me.
Bummer for those of you who were looking to LAN party D3.
 
Single palyer characters on d2 can be cheated to hell, there is no way to have a fair play in Lan games. Just BNET can provide a smoooth game experience, the LAN feature is a hard miss to starcraft but not for Diablo
 
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