2y ago

DDoS attack on Blizzard leads to more calls for a Diablo 4 offline mode

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Forced online is literally the only reason my husband and I didn't buy this game. We can't be the only ones and they're definitely missing out on a good chunk of money
- If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend Grim Dawn.
While I don't condone DDoS attacks, the only reason for D4 to be online-only is monetization IMO: Blizzard wants to sell cosmetics, so people have to see other people wearing them. There is little gameplay benefit from being an MMO-lite.
- Probably all sorts of datamining regarding the way people play also. Can't do that so easily if people are playing offline.
  
  Brilliant insight. They probably are tracking metrics on what will encourage people to buy stuff the most too
People are still buying games from Blizzard? It's like everybody forgot what a terrible company it is.
This has never been a problem for Path Of Exile, but that is free to play.
- How do you know that no one who has played PoE has needed/wanted offline mode?
  Personally I don't play PoE because of their policy on respeccing. An offline mode would likely make it possible for me to bypass that with mods.
  Speaking of mods D2 had awesome ones so it's sad 3, 4 & PoE are so locked down with the online mode to prevent this.
  
  I don't, but I have never seen anyone complain about it. I am but one voice is this world, though.
- I started playing PoE after getting to somewhat endgame in D4. Got to level 60 something and my buddy and I were like....sooo...whatcha wanna do now? Dungeon I guess? Then we just kinda stopped playing. The rubber banding and random lags were super annoying and resulted in many deaths - we had a great time but needs a lot more cookin in the oven.
  PoE on the other hand has been super refreshing and non laggy (the joy of 10 yrs of development I guess) and there's soo much to chew on. In a way it feels like a natural extension of D2 (played D2R for the first time last year).
  
  I never played D2 but I've been told it is supposed to be a spiritual successor.
- I quit everything Blizzard after Starcraft 2, that game had so much down time, and although it did have an offline option, you couldn't get new technologies as rewards in the campaign, when servers were down. Making it kind of redundant to have the offline mode IMO.
  You can call it a boycott, but a company gone bad, rarely turns back to good again.
  Fool me once and all that.
  
  Blizzard died for me when they started killing Hearthstone. I haven't regretted it since.
Between always online games, and Starfield confirmed not having a physical disc release, I am weary for the future of gaming.
- Blame the era of rampant gaming piracy. No disc is fine, useless overhead that's just more plastic in a landfill.
I quit buying Blizzard products after the bNetd fiasco. Fuck them straight to hell.

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