“There were some technical reasons we had to go with offline, but again once you have an offline experience, even if we wanted to bring in the auction house, it just becomes problematic. “The ecosystems on the PC and console are very different,” Mosqueira explained. Which leads to some other changes, namely the removal of the real money auction house. It was confirmed to me that the game will be playable offline on the PlayStation 3. A little more banter can be found at PC Gamer’s writeup of the briefing.Īnd a note to Blizzard PR: suggesting people play other games than your own because yours will be deliberately inaccessible isn’t really selling it.There was some question about the offline play of the game, something that’s impossible in the PC version of Diablo 3. And if they think breaking paying users’ games will decrease piracy, they’re just plain nuts. might be one of the biggest online gaming presences in the world, but if Blizzard thinks this little obstacle won’t be cracked and spoofed, they’ve got another think coming. But they are stupid if they think this is going to work. The online character is stored entirely on Blizzard’s servers (like, say, my guy in Bad Company 2), and the offline character is stored locally (oh, like my other guy in Bad Company 2).īlizzard isn’t stupid - or perhaps I should say, they aren’t stupid in a way that would prevent them from thinking of this solution. But what if you just want to play offline? Why, you create an offline character, who can never be played online. That’s the way persistent online games work. The very first thing I thought of was simply to make the system opt-in: you create a character on and log in to play single player, collect loot, and are tracked the whole time. Other games that, unlike Diablo 3, I’ll be buying. What a great thing to say! What an incredibly lucid statement! He’s completely correct. “I want to play Diablo 3 on my laptop in a plane, but, well, there are other games to play for times like that.”
While Pardo recognizes that people sometimes want or need to play offline (such as internet outages, or playing on a laptop during an airplane flight), he notes that the increased security, plus benefits like the above, outweigh those other concerns.
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