So much for playing D3 while deployed.

[xManiaCCCx]

so you are telling me that single player game takes place at battle.net? and if I have a poor internet connection I will have lags? What is the difference between single player and multiplayer- 1player/password game then? I thought that this whole 'must be connected to play' stuff was just for authorization purposes and will be hacked sooner than D3 official release;p

Blue post here:

In addition to all the other benefits that we believe ultimately come from having everyone online such as an active, centralized community, a popular arena system, accessible character storage, etc. etc. Diablo III is built on a client/server architecture, which means not all the data for the game or mechanics reside on the client (your computer).

This is not too unlike World of Warcraft where the world itself, the art, the sounds, etc. are on your machine, but all of the NPC’s and enemies are controlled by the server. Diablo III doesn’t function in all of the exact same ways, but things like monster randomization, dungeon randomization, item drops, the outcomes of combat, among others, are all handled and verified by the client talking to the server, and vice versa.

We’ve learned a lot from this type of architecture from World of Warcraft, and the added security and oversight it provides. It allows a great deal of control over the game at all times for all players, so if we know there’s an issue or bug we can usually address it right then and there through a live hotfix. Hotfixes can’t be used for everything, we’re still going to have client patches, but we’re definitely looking forward to being able to deliver a consistently high quality experience to all players simultaneously through processes like hotfixes.

In addition there are some pretty intense security concerns. While there’s never a fool proof solution to stopping hack and cheats, we’ve found that a strict client/server architecture is a huge barrier for their development and use.

Ultimately we made the decision to make the game client/server based because of the security and quality it can provide to those playing, and as a bonus it reinforces a lot of our ideals for a thriving online community.

If bold part is true.. you will have to wait months to have at least poorly workable cracked Diablo 3 copy..and also you could be sure ..while it may work somehow.. it will be just random code from random guy..poorly optimalized and of course.. many things could work completely different from Diablo 3 on battlenet ..which sucks of course.

[Zeramus]

I get a lunch hour at work but I still won't be able to play Diablo 3 during it, wether it has an offline mode or not. Perhaps I should start a petition about that?

Are you seriously comparing your lunch break to the time when they're off-duty? I don't get off on defending the military or the people in it "just because", but really?

Yeah, you're an idiot for sure.

[unmoses]

so you are telling me that single player game takes place on battle.net? and if I have a poor internet connection I will have lags? What is the difference between single player and multiplayer- 1player/password game then? I thought that this whole 'must be connected to play' stuff was just for authorization purposes and will be hacked sooner than D3 official release;p

Yes that's correct

And yep, you'll have lag

no difference, other than the number of people in your game

Maybe

[ltheavy]

If they wanted you playing games, they'd let you.

Do your goddamn job.

[sekira]

That was a terrible comparison. Diablo 3 is not a MMORPG.

And yeah, just hope that those pesky pirates at piratebay will have a working version quickly.

It's a very acceptable comparison actually. Read up on it if you're that unaware.

[fnaxqtr]

feel with you man!

[BryanM]

I feel for you. When you look at the dead kids during the hour roll at the end of the News Hour, there is a non-zero percentage of them that will have liked to play this thing in the days before being liquefied. It's a douche move for everyone, except maybe for Blizzard. Though I don't think it's a swell move for their own sake, either.

The douchey "but you CHOSE this life" responses you got are jerks. Any moron understands the situation:

* You can put yourself into debt for over a decade for the chance (not a guarantee) to work in a specific career field for most of the rest of your life.

* You can maybe get a job in labor. If you're very lucky you live near a decent plant that'll give you $13 an hour.

* You can have a mommy and daddy rich enough to send you off on whatever adventures you feel like, so it really doesn't matter a damn what you decide to do.

* You can get pregnant and get on the welfare. If you're a man, too bad. Should have thought of that before you were born.

* All that falls through, you can become homeless and go die.

The military is the best way to get started in life. Healthcare and college - it is ironic you have to enlist here to get what are basic rights in the hippy Scandinavian countries. It is also an okay way of getting through life if any of the Office Space/High School/Politics/Death stuff you're exposed to doesn't hurt your soul.

[Glass]

Are you seriously comparing your lunch break to the time when they're off-duty? I don't get off on defending the military or the people in it "just because", but really?

Yeah, you're an idiot for sure.

No. The point is if you are older than 18 and are unable to play Diablo 3 because of the online condition, it is the result of choices and decisions you made so don't expect sympathy. Companies don't have to design their products so that certain groups of people are able to use them, so the argument that military personel will be unable to play Diablo 3 is irrelevant. Just as it is irrelevant that I can't play Diablo 3 at work; Blizzard doesn't have to, an don't, care about that.

The military is the best way to get started in life.

Fine. Join the military then, but don't expect companies like Blizzard to cater to that decision.

[Zeramus]

No. The point is if you are older than 18 and are unable to play Diablo 3 because of the online condition, it is the result of choices and decisions you made so don't expect sympathy. Companies don't have to design their products so that certain groups of people are able to use them, so the argument that military personel will be unable to play Diablo 3 is irrelevant. Just as it is irrelevant that I can't play Diablo 3 at work; Blizzard doesn't have to, an don't, care about that.

The only "choice and decision" they made was to serve. Contrary to what you seem to think, they're not in jail. Ergo, they have every right to express their discontentment with this issue. It would be idiotic to say otherwise.

I'm not sure why you keep coming back to this "well I can't play at work, it's the same thing" nonsense. You're so far off base that it's really laughable. I understand what your "point" is, even if you're construing it like a horse's ***, and yet your aforementioned metaphor has nothing to do with anything.

By the way-- you don't speak for Blizzard. Don't tell me what they do and do not care about, because in reality you have no idea.

If they wanted you playing games, they'd let you.

Do your goddamn job.

You realize, imbecile, that military personnel do in fact have free time, right?

[marshmallow]

It’s the nature of modern PC gaming for the consumers to have to reverse engineer the product to put in features that should’ve been there in the first place.