They don't like it. Described as a casual experience for the most part.
I wonder if most of those haters are food stockpilers uploading pictures of their computer next to the toilet seat, or is it the fanbois?
Lots of knee-jerk reactions from haters, yup!
My bet, more kiddies going to go to FTC... game is not to MY EXPECTATIONS... I am special and count more than every single customer... please fix game for me and me alone... fucking assholes..
Seriously Metacritic needs to disable user comments at least for a week or so after launch. Day 1 shit reviews from users are not helpful, just allowing trolls to be trolls and whining little cunts who can't deal with the fact that game is game, and games are not easy to make. Same assclowns post shit day 1 for most games, seriously if you are just on metacritic to be 0 posting troll on Day 1 launches your right to play games should be revoked.
Okay so the online on feature sucks.. Blizzard should have fixed that or removed it but just saying the entire value of the game sucks is uncalled for imo.
Oh man a game that has some controversy around it is released and people write dumb shit on user review sites? Quelle surprise!
Woah, woah, woah, chill people. You're calling them haters and stupid and getting all mad at them and yet look at yourselves. You're the ones who are getting all mad and being haters because of peoples opinions. What's wrong with a devoted Diablo fan being disappointed in the game because they alienated their fanbase and casualized the series, and then him expressing his anger healthily online?
I know I am definitely disappointed and angry if it's like how Slain explained. Of course I kind of expected it, because this is Activizzard and I played the beta. Oh well, shit happens.
Still, I'm sure you guys would be angry to if something you were a fan of suddenly alienated you and the rest of their fans. Look at UT3. Everyone here pretty much agrees it sucked and wasn't a good UT game, yet no one calls the people here haters, dumb, ect.
Just to clarify. This is an online-only game because it was built that way from the ground up.
When you kill a monster who lives on the server, that monster dies on the server, the loot it decides to drop lives on the server, you pick the loot up.. it goes into your character's inventory, which is stored on the server.
So pretty much everything that happens in the game is running and recorded on the Blizzard servers. There is no way to "remove" or "fix" the online requirement. The game is designed and built around it. It gives them extremely tight control of the content that is in the game and how players can interact with it.
Unless they have the server files, and host their own server or somehow found a way to emulate a server running offline... nope.
Like I said before, the whole game runs off their servers. You have to be connected.
Yeah to my knowledge there is currently no way to play it offline, due to exactly what Slainchild said. The game is basically WoW Lite in terms of architecture, and in some ways the graphics and art and gameplay as well. They locked it down to server-side because of the real money auction to prevent item hacking.
Sigh, wrong. They were able to take SC2 single player offline and they will be able to with Diablo 3 too. I give them about a week. Actually a couple days even. You people do realize there are illegitimate MMO servers for plenty of mmo games? There are illegitimate Diablo 2 online servers too. This will be much easier than that.
They had to. Both D1 and D2 were hacked like crazy. The only way to solve the duping problems and all the other crap is to force it all online.
No they didn't. They could have had it exactly the same as Diablo 1 and 2. All character and hosted games were always online in Diablo 1 and 2 battle.net mode. Dupes were really easy in Diablo 1 cause of bad coding and Diablo 2 it was possible through complex lag manipulation. They can just as easily find a way in Diablo 3 too. The always online thing is just some stupid form of DRM that will end up being broken in a couple days. Actually something I will give them is that people can play the game alone first and then not have to worry about making a new character when they want to go online, which was
sort of a small problem is d1/2.
Bots, well those are even harder to control, so they will be coming back in full force too probably. Unless you have to type some captcha every dungeon.