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  • #16
    JDay
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Nov 2008
    • 19393

    Maybe I got that wrong but I could have sworn I read that it was going to have a monthly fee. It will have DRM that is always on though (requires you to be online) and that is another deal breaker. I do not own Battlefield 3 for the same reason.

    The limitations of online-only DRM are, perhaps, in truth only hypothetical. It's possible to imagine a DRM scheme that must be online all the time, yet handles outages gracefully and never limits your play. Unfortunately, that DRM is not the kind Blizzard is installing on Diablo 3, one of the most anticipated titles of the year. At a briefing given to a few gaming sites, it was revealed that the game will indeed require an active internet connection at all times in order to play at all. Remember the last time a top-shelf game did this? Remember the outages, the errors, the frustration, the lack of communication? Blizzard says it has to be this way because otherwise they can't be sure you haven't cheated to create your character. What a brilliant solution to the problem!
    Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison

    The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)

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    • #17
      JDay
      I need a LIFE!!
      • Nov 2008
      • 19393

      Maybe I got that wrong but I could have sworn I read that it was going to have a monthly fee. It will have DRM that is always on though (requires you to be online) and that is another deal breaker. I do not own Battlefield 3 for the same reason.

      The limitations of online-only DRM are, perhaps, in truth only hypothetical. It's possible to imagine a DRM scheme that must be online all the time, yet handles outages gracefully and never limits your play. Unfortunately, that DRM is not the kind Blizzard is installing on Diablo 3, one of the most anticipated titles of the year. At a briefing given to a few gaming sites, it was revealed that the game will indeed require an active internet connection at all times in order to play at all. Remember the last time a top-shelf game did this? Remember the outages, the errors, the frustration, the lack of communication? Blizzard says it has to be this way because otherwise they can't be sure you haven't cheated to create your character. What a brilliant solution to the problem!
      Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison

      The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)

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      • #18
        Nose Nuggets
        Calguns Addict
        • Apr 2008
        • 6801

        meh, its so easy to get online pretty much everywhere now. i'm not too concerned about it, certainly not concerned enough to not buy a game because of it. BF3, for example, is pretty much MP anyway, and i had planned to coop my way through D3 as well.

        i wont be buying D3 because its rubbish, not because of the online requirement.


        "It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all." -Thomas Jefferson

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        • #19
          JoshlikesARs
          Member
          • Jun 2009
          • 332

          Originally posted by JDay
          Maybe I got that wrong but I could have sworn I read that it was going to have a monthly fee. It will have DRM that is always on though (requires you to be online) and that is another deal breaker. I do not own Battlefield 3 for the same reason.

          http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/dia...-it-of-course/
          Get use to this if your a gamer. This is the way they prevent pirating of their software.

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          • #20
            Merc1138
            I need a LIFE!!
            • Feb 2009
            • 19742

            Originally posted by JDay
            Maybe I got that wrong but I could have sworn I read that it was going to have a monthly fee. It will have DRM that is always on though (requires you to be online) and that is another deal breaker. I do not own Battlefield 3 for the same reason.

            http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/dia...-it-of-course/
            Battlefield 3 is multiplayer only(with no LAN support)... of course you need to be online.

            Diablo 3 happens to be multiplayer that allows you to play by yourself. The problem isn't the DRM they're worried about since they have CD keys anyway. The problem was the rampant cheating in D1 and D2.

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            • #21
              2shotjoe
              CGN/CGSSA Contributor
              CGN Contributor
              • Feb 2011
              • 26589

              How long does it take to install? I just got it
              Originally posted by Kestryll
              ..you're kind of a sad excuse for an attorney...
              Originally posted by Libertarian777
              ...Don't pick either side....

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              • #22
                JDay
                I need a LIFE!!
                • Nov 2008
                • 19393

                Originally posted by Merc1138
                Battlefield 3 is multiplayer only(with no LAN support)... of course you need to be online.
                No it is not. There is a full single player campaign mode.

                Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison

                The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)

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                • #23
                  Merc1138
                  I need a LIFE!!
                  • Feb 2009
                  • 19742

                  Originally posted by JDay
                  No it is not. There is a full single player campaign mode.
                  LOL, my bad. That sorry excuse for a single player campaign is technically a single player campaign still I guess.

                  (but seriously, it might as well be non-existent since it's just a generic forgettable storyline with some linear levels and a silly on-rails shooter fighter jet stage)

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                  • #24
                    JoeinLA
                    Member
                    • Jun 2011
                    • 280

                    Playing the beta. Will get the full release. Will likely buy a new PC for D3. Woot! Cant wait.

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                    • #25
                      2shotjoe
                      CGN/CGSSA Contributor
                      CGN Contributor
                      • Feb 2011
                      • 26589

                      Game doesn't feel like a Blizzard game, D2 still better. I may cancel my pre- order.

                      Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk
                      Originally posted by Kestryll
                      ..you're kind of a sad excuse for an attorney...
                      Originally posted by Libertarian777
                      ...Don't pick either side....

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