Diablo III Patch Restricts Access for New Players

[Nerexor]

God dammit blizzard. I've tried. I've tried so hard to be supportive of your always online bullshit, the incredibly lackluster loot system, the server problems, but seriously... Blizzard: FUCK RIGHT OFF.

It takes less than 72 hours to beat the fucking game multiple times, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?! You are punishing paying customers under the guise of fighting cheats and pirates. You know what? I'd rather put up with the ridiculous hacked item bullshit that was happening in D2 than watch a game company from which I've always seen great things deliberately smashing it's face into a trough full of stupidity over and over and over again.

This ridiculous foray into game property for real money has clearly managed to drive the people in charge of decision making utterly insane. Because you tried this abomination, all your efforts have ceased to go into making the game an enjoyable experience and have gone entirely into protecting the sanctity of that system.

This is not what games are for. We play games to have fun. So stop trying to turn us into money mules, and TEAR DOWN THE REAL MONEY AUCTION HOUSE. Then get back to doing your jobs which has always been to provide a high quality and fun experience to your customers. It's made you millions of dollars before, so stop trying to milk us out of our last 5 cents.

/rant

 

[Braedan]

Does this include single player? Because if so, where the fuck is all the rage?

Edit: actually, with or without affecting single, what the fuck. If I buy the game to play with friends I have to wait THREE DAYS?

Here's your TV. I know you just spent a snuggly bunch of money on it, but unfortunately, you will have to wait a week before you get more than VHS support. To stop all the cocaine dealers you see.


How the fuck is this going to solve any problems?

 

[shadowstriker86]

again i really need to ask this: people are still playing this game?

 

[oldtaku]

You know what those votes said?

I'LL SIT HERE AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.

I think the term you were looking for was 'prison *****'.

 

[orangeban]

Is this meant to be some kind of test of strength? Like, Blizzard will give everyone free chocolate and handjobs at the end of all this, as a reward for putting up with it?

Or is this some kind of moral lesson about the dangers of DRM? Is Blizzard trying to the catalyst of the anti-DRM revolution?

 

[WaysideMaze]

This game just gets more and more attractive every day doesn't it? I cannot for the life of me figure out why I haven't bought it yet.

 

[Worgen]

People will continue to bash Blizzard over forums, blogs, their own forums, any number of things. If you look at these threads on all the forums and blogs you'd think the game was a total failure and now no ones playing it and it is further dying.

For all the whining, people still gave Blizzard their money, and they voted with their wallets. You know what those votes said?

I'LL SIT HERE AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.

Over 7 million copies sold.

Yeah, you sure showed them.

Bitching is the only way to keep other companies from jumping onto the retarded bus.

 

[lancar]

Does this include single player? Because if so, where the fuck is all the rage?

Of course this would include singleplayer. There is no distinction between multiplayer and singleplayer play in it. Blizzard has launched excuse upon excuse as to why gamers should eat this bullshit and be happy.

And they did. And it seems as if they mostly are.

I didn't buy this game because of both its always-online scheme and its elevated pricepoint. Every article i've read about the game since its release reinforces my belief that this decision was correct, and I refuse to buy it until either the price drops to at least half, or they create a version of the game that can be played offline.

I've lived to see Blizzard grow from a speck on the gaming horizon to the huge & filthy rich corporation it is now. They've always seemed like one of the true bastions of quality game development, and releasing only PC-exclusive titles no less! Along with Valve, Blizzard has been one of the few giants on the side of PC gamers, a developer we could hold up with pride as a shining example of successful business selling games for the PC. It has been something to shove in the faces of all the publishers saying that piracy makes the PC a dead platform, unworthy of their time.

With World of Warcraft, they lost a bit of that credibility, what with becoming stupidly rich because of it and all of a sudden being merged with the dubious Activision.
But they were still "good" guys! Mostly.

Now, Diablo 3.
Somehow I feel betrayed, even though I didn't buy it. It's like they're systematically dismantling all the customer loyalty and goodwill they've built over the years, and for what?
I just don't get it.

 

[krazykidd]

Does this include single player? Because if so, where the fuck is all the rage?

Edit: actually, with or without affecting single, what the fuck. If I buy the game to play with friends I have to wait THREE DAYS?

Here's your TV. I know you just spent a snuggly bunch of money on it, but unfortunately, you will have to wait a week before you get more than VHS support. To stop all the cocaine dealers you see.


How the fuck is this going to solve any problems?

There is no single player. You can just play multiplayer alone.

I'm confused now. I thought the DRM was suppose to stop the pirates/hackers?

This is not about pirates/hackers. This is about Credit card fraud / identity theft. A somewhat different thing.

OT: Oh how the mighty have fallen ...

 

[Mattlore]

You know...I find it funny that people rip on the company for trying to protect their business. This isn't about in game, digital items. This is credit card fraud. It's something that can effect MULTIPLE people in a ripple effect.
It would be like if I decided to lock my door at night because I got robbed and all my friends suddenly bitching and complaining that they can't get let in, until I let them in, but alas thus is trend now, blame the company and not those that are purposefully hurting the company.

 

[Vault101]

People will continue to bash Blizzard over forums, blogs, their own forums, any number of things. If you look at these threads on all the forums and blogs you'd think the game was a total failure and now no ones playing it and it is further dying.

For all the whining, people still gave Blizzard their money, and they voted with their wallets. You know what those votes said?

I'LL SIT HERE AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.

Over 7 million copies sold.

Yeah, you sure showed them.

whats your point?

people shouldn't be mean to poor old blizzard?

 

[Nexxis]

It seems like every time Blizzard wants to add a security measure, their customers pay/suffer for it. Where there no other options?

 

[irishda]

People will continue to bash Blizzard over forums, blogs, their own forums, any number of things. If you look at these threads on all the forums and blogs you'd think the game was a total failure and now no ones playing it and it is further dying.

For all the whining, people still gave Blizzard their money, and they voted with their wallets. You know what those votes said?

I'LL SIT HERE AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.

Over 7 million copies sold.

Yeah, you sure showed them.

Bitching is the only way to keep other companies from jumping onto the retarded bus.

No. No it isn't. Voting with your wallets is the only way to keep companies from jumping onto the retarded bus

 

[Eri]

People will continue to bash Blizzard over forums, blogs, their own forums, any number of things. If you look at these threads on all the forums and blogs you'd think the game was a total failure and now no ones playing it and it is further dying.

For all the whining, people still gave Blizzard their money, and they voted with their wallets. You know what those votes said?

I'LL SIT HERE AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.

Over 7 million copies sold.

Yeah, you sure showed them.

whats your point?

people shouldn't be mean to poor old blizzard?

The point is obvious, you can ***** all you want but if you buy the game, they have no reason to listen to you.

This isn't a subscription MMO where if you ignore player wishes you might lose profit, there's nothing to lose once they buy it.

 

[Vault101]

The point is obvious, you can ***** all you want but if you buy the game, they have no reason to listen to you.

if you bought the game and it screwed with you beyond what the DRM was suposed to then they damn well should listen to you

[quote/]This isn't a subscription MMO where if you ignore player wishes you might lose profit, there's nothing to lose once they buy it.[/quote]

true, and people did buy it....and alot of peopel voiced the fact that they disagreed with such practices..weather or not it made a difference might reflect in the chance of other games taking up simialr DRM measures

 

[Canadamus Prime]

So once again we're punishing the not-guilty with the guilty eh? The industry's been doing an alarming amount of that lately. I'm not going to get up your ass about this Blizzard, but I do have to question what the hell it is you're thinking.

People will continue to bash Blizzard over forums, blogs, their own forums, any number of things. If you look at these threads on all the forums and blogs you'd think the game was a total failure and now no ones playing it and it is further dying.

For all the whining, people still gave Blizzard their money, and they voted with their wallets. You know what those votes said?

I'LL SIT HERE AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.

Over 7 million copies sold.

Yeah, you sure showed them.

Bitching is the only way to keep other companies from jumping onto the retarded bus.

So in other words acting like a retard is the only way to stop other people from acting like retards?
Love you logic there. /sarcasm

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

If I may request you remove your 'fuck blizzard' caps for a moment and think about this though: ((btw don't even bother replying to me with counter arguments or nasty names, I don't care enough about this to come back and have any real discussion XD Might read them but can't be bothered to reply. Just putting forward how it looks from where I'm sitting))

What they're doing is making it more inconvenient for criminals to make 500 characters all at once and use them for fraud and other activities that can have a serious and drastic real world effect on people.

It may be a little annoying have to wait a day or two for unlimited access, it's not like you're locked out of the game. You still get act one and level 13, unless you're some sort of.... erhm, highly dedicated individual, should that not be enough content to last until the game becomes fully unlocked? serious question there cause I don't have the game.

It also seems like they're making a bit of a 'kiddies pool', where all the new players can test out the waters with other new characters first, before they're then let out into the big bad ocean.
Not altogether a bad idea in essence for creating a more friendly environment for new players, cause there are always those people who'd come around with their high level character and grief new players just for fun.

I'm unfamiliar with exactly how diablo 3 works, but is there any reason why someone would make a new account/buy a new copy of the game(whichever causes this 'start edition' content) if they already have one?
Other than maybe muleing off items, maybe circumventing a ban? or as mentioned above, fraudulent activity. So am I right in thinking that this won't actually effect any of the current players at all? (therefore, only people who don't own it but are wanting to have any real cause for complaint?)


I mean I can understand being a little bothered with having to wait [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9obgyYB1IU], and with the DRM requirements Diablo 3 already has leaving people a little grumpy in general(I feel the same way, I like single player/no lag and not needing internet for everything. It's part of the reason I indeed don't have the game), but this thing here doesn't actually sound to me like it's the massive kick in the balls people are making it out to be.

You'd have to wait and see how effective it is in it's goals, but it's surprising how many people seem to legitimately think 'yeah, blizzard is totally doing this just to annoy people' XD

We get it, you're not too happy with how Blizzard have handled Diablo 3, but now we've run out of cheese to go with all this w(h)ine and you've beaten that dead horse so hard that it broke all the records in town. Maybe next time vote with your wallet if you feel so strongly on the matter? :X

 

[Worgen]

People will continue to bash Blizzard over forums, blogs, their own forums, any number of things. If you look at these threads on all the forums and blogs you'd think the game was a total failure and now no ones playing it and it is further dying.

For all the whining, people still gave Blizzard their money, and they voted with their wallets. You know what those votes said?

I'LL SIT HERE AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.

Over 7 million copies sold.

Yeah, you sure showed them.

Bitching is the only way to keep other companies from jumping onto the retarded bus.

No. No it isn't. Voting with your wallets is the only way to keep companies from jumping onto the retarded bus

Its blizzard, people are retarded when it comes to blizzard, blizzard could shit on a napkin and at least 1.5 million people would buy it, hopefully this will finally be enough of a media shitstorm for people to stop buying blizzard but I doubt it.

 

[Scars Unseen]

You know...I find it funny that people rip on the company for trying to protect their business. This isn't about in game, digital items. This is credit card fraud. It's something that can effect MULTIPLE people in a ripple effect.
It would be like if I decided to lock my door at night because I got robbed and all my friends suddenly bitching and complaining that they can't get let in, until I let them in, but alas thus is trend now, blame the company and not those that are purposefully hurting the company.

To paraphrase Jim Sterling, Blizzard's problems are not our problems. Blizzard has decided to make them our problems, and we have every right to complain about that.

 

[Dastardly]

Diablo III Patch Restricts Access for New Players

What I'm getting from this is, "Because we put the obstacle of always-online DRM between you and your purchased product, we've inadvertently created some problems that demand we put the additional hurdle of a three-day waiting period between you and your purchased product. By the way, we did all this so that we could create a market for our Real Money Auction House, which we hope you're not too tired (whatwith all the hurdle-jumping) to browse!"

Bliz has found itself in a hole, and is determined to dig itself out.