Diablo IV Confirmed as Online-Only
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gx-x
that's how people play HC these days. OMG danger!
Venix
wavetrex
Just forget about it and go buy Grim Dawn.
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Bobdole776
I mean, it's pretty obvious as to why it's going to be online-only; it's the only tried and true way to keep piracy waaaaay, way down as the only way to pirate it is to emulate the server functionality. If I remember correctly, it took 1-2 years before diablo 3 had an emulated server to make it playable for free, and the process to set it up was of course too much for most average folk.
Beyond that it's also a great way to stem down cheating as decision making happens server side instead of client. Even beyond all this, It's always kinda shocked me blizz went this route when the server management is also more dosh needing to be spent, and if they ever go poof, well there goes the game as well...
jwb1
Don't you guys have internet?
Ricky78
gx-x
console version is a different game in many regards.
metagamer
metagamer
Alessio1989
metagamer
ruthan
This fuels, play it forever engine.. if it would be offline, you can just have fun and cheat some high level different character just to have fun and with old games.. but not you have to work.. exping and grinding..
Size_Mick
I want to buy it but I can't carry anymore. Too much baggage!
Astyanax
not seeing the point of outrage here.
kakiharaFRS
if they kept the same f2p mobile mechanics no thx
- leveling through items "only" is pure dev laziness, it's zero work to just raise the rolls on items and call that leveling, it should be like borderlands or other games, more skill points new skills or even branching to a new sub-class not just "go grind better gear and pay to reroll stats"
- the worst offender : skills locked behind items you have to grind, wth >< d3 had lots of skills completely useless without item or set X, unacceptable ! items should be a boost to an existing build not the entirety of it, a set is a set not a build ! (requiring mana regen, health steal or whatever is different, in D3 the skill radically change and of course is ultra weak without the item)
and btw at the end of the 1st season of D3 Blizzard erased my gear so that was it for me, uninstalled immediately, when recovering my items 90% of my gear had disappeared all my gems and materials (their reply "too bad just play some more and you'll get them back")...so yeah...game over for me...you do not mess with player items in a freaking arpg !!!
like Bethesda after F76, D4 would have to be the ultimate best arpg for me to consider playing
TheDeeGee
fantaskarsef
RzrTrek
LocoDiceGR
EspHack
offline mode? pff, that feature is reserved exclusively for non-paying users