Blizzard is currently experiencing a “DDoS attack”, preventing players from logging into Diablo 4 and other games such as World of Warcraft.

  • nlm@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Rather annoying too… sometimes I miss games that didn’t require you or some server to be online…

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      1 year ago

      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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

    • detectivemittens@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      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.