Diablo III Patch Restricts Access for New Players

[balanovich]

Two lessons are to be learned.
#1 Real money auction : BAD IDEA !!!!
#2 Always online: REQUIRES FUCKING GOOD SERVERS BITCHES!!!
#3(sry, can't count) people are going to hack stuff make. make it so you can live with it.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

I don't play Diablo, but...

This honestly looks like Blizzard just likes shooting itself in the foot.

 

[phoenix352]

this is like the new mass effect 3 ending at this point...
anything they do to or say to make it better just makes things worse.

 

[Friendly Lich]

Glad I'm not a customer of theirs, the people that play this game get treated like a dog on a leash.

 

[Friendly Lich]

Are you kidding? why should anyone have to wait to use something they bought?

 

[Weaver]

All you PC gamers mocked folks like me who said always online DRM would hurt D3.

Guess who was RIGHT.

Here's a hint:
NOT YOU.

Really? There is a large contingent of people on this forum (myself included) who were citing the always online as the sole reason we weren't getting the game.

I'm glad I didn't buy it and I can say I never will.

 

[theultimateend]

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.

Also its not really legitimate since this isn't a product you can return.

Game sales just show how well marketing worked. If you could return games then sales would be much more interesting.

As I see it, there are about 6 million or so satisfied customers, happily playing Diablo 3, and a few thousand people who never played the game predicting its utter doom.

Uh...our entire office bought the game. So around 30 folks.

Only 2 still play. I personally made it to the mid 50's and into Hell before I just gave up. I kept hoping I'd find something of value...never came.

I don't know anyone who still likes it though, just wasn't for me.

 

[tmande2nd]

F is for Fooking stupid
A is for asinine policy
I is for idiots in running your company
L is for Ludicrous anti consumer actions.

Put them together and you get the DIABLO 3 LAUNCH.
Crap I can accept bugs at launch, like in FONV or Skyrim.

But to this? This is just getting pathetic.
What happened to the days when you got a game for your money.

Now its like getting a limited time thing saying "You can play this game only when we say so, when we feel like it, and if we dont turn off servers because we want to cash in!"

First Bioware, now Blizzard not a good year for game companies that start with B.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

The inability to play single player in Diablo 3 looks to be the worst thing I've seen done to an otherwise at least mediocre game. Never before has a company tried so hard to convince me not to give them money.

 

[Easton Dark]

Never before has a company tried so hard to convince me not to give them money.

LucasArts cancelled Battlefront 3. They're still winning.

Blizzard tries though.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

Never before has a company tried so hard to convince me not to give them money.

LucasArts cancelled Battlefront 3. They're still winning.

Blizzard tries though.

Eh. I would like an updated Battlefront, but I still enjoy Battlefront 2 enough

 

[viranimus]

Yip... this is exactly what happens when you give up your privacy and buy a game that the manufacturer has constant supervision over.

Cant wait till more of these show up in an avalanche to push me off this slippery slope.

 

[Skeleon]

Blizzard's still adding more hoops to jump through, I see. It's funny that 90% of the news regarding D3 as they trickle in are additional reasons for me to steer clear of that game and the remaining 10% are stuff I don't personally care about, like that story with the first Inferno HC success.

 

[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

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.

People are retarded when it comes to a lot of companies. The exact same thing could be said about Valve for instance. They could shit into tin foil and as long as they called it Half-life 2: episode 3, it'd still probably be called the greatest thing ever. Hell, look at Bethesda. They keep releasing buggy messy shit. Playstation 3 owners couldn't even play Skyrim until after a month or two. And that still got game of the year from a lot of people.

It's called fanboyism. It affects a lot of people. Bitching won't stop them and it won't stop other companies cause they're not paying attention to these forums. And I'm sure criticism on their forums is mostly ignored except for the slim few criticisms that are helpful.

 

[Sean951]

Yes what a terrible horrible game. That millions love. That my friend made $250 off of, which will likely pay for the WoW subscription he has.

 

[Frostbite3789]

So right after the shitstorm that was the launch week, Blizzard is really pulling shit like this?

Didn't you know? Launch week was totally just this in effect. It went exactly according to plan!

 

[Aeshi]

Well this might stem the hordes of people who buy the game and somehow don't realise that 'they hate it and want a refund' until after they've completed it several times if nothing else.

 

[Project_Xii]

Where have all the newbies gone?
since first Act passing
Where have all the newbies gone?
Around the world.
Where have all the newbies gone?
Blizzard capped them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

You brought back traumatizing childhood memories of learning what that song was about, and nearly brought tears to my eyes. And sadly summed up the state of Diablo 3 in an oddly poignant way. Kudos.

 

[madster11]

So happy i've never bought a Blizzard product after Warcraft 3.

 

[tmande2nd]

F is for Fooking stupid
A is for asinine policy
I is for idiots in running your company
L is for Ludicrous anti consumer actions.

Put them together and you get the DIABLO 3 LAUNCH.

Are you channeling Glenn Beck?

!
That has to be one of the meanest things I have ever been told all year!