Blizzard is currently experiencing a “DDoS attack”, preventing players from logging into Diablo 4 and other games such as World of Warcraft.
Rather annoying too… sometimes I miss games that didn’t require you or some server to be online…
Only sometimes? I can’t bring myself to buy those games anymore. It’s not some lost technology to make a video game work without an internet connection.
Yeah, it’s a sad trend really
You can’t buy digital items from them if you are offline, now can you?
But I’ll usually be online even if I have the option to be offline. It just means that I know the game will continue to work even if they’re not running a server somewhere. The dominant use case is still going to be going online to see their new goofy costumes that I can buy, because it’s easier than setting up a private server, and because that’s where everyone else is.
Since the Steam Deck I’ve been prioritizing games that don’t require high frequency of online check backs. Or I guess I could use cracks, but I don’t want to have to do that.
This is most of the reason why I haven’t bought D4. (Well, that and I got burned real hard by D3 midnight release.) I liked single player games BECAUSE they didn’t require internet access.
Understandable. It’s been fun so far though.
Couldn’t happen to a better company. That fact that people still spend money at this company boggles the fucking mind.
EDIT: A lot of these defenses of using it because a lot of people don’t care is pretty rich and ironic coming from a bunch of people who left reddit for ideological reasons.
Couldn’t agree more.
Yeah despite the decent reviews, the always online requirement, plus the fact it is not on Steam, so playing it on Steam Deck will be a pain, mean its a no from me.
Guess I’m not missing much by the looks of things lol
Looked at it yesterday on ps5. Yeah, nah… Way too expensive and shouldn’t come in 3 different versions.
Blizzard doesn’t need the money… I’ll wait until the top version is half the price. The fun with Diablo was playing with mates, and for that price, I don’t expect my mates to pay that much either
DRM is not a protection. It is a killswitch. Even MMOs can theoretically be DRM-free. So this situation just lays the DRM issue bare. points to GOG, Itchio, ZP, and so on
Using this time to clean my bong 🙏
In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death taxes and you server going down.
