id Software Praises "Always On" in Diablo 3

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I know I am always connected to the net, but Dammit I want to know that if shit hits the fan (say, my uni's ISP holds our bandwidth/connections hostage, again) I can still play what I payed for.
 

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id Software Creative Director Tim Willits is a big fan of the "always on" DRM in Diablo 3 and believes Blizzard has the muscle to force gamers to love it.
Well this does make me wonder if he has a pimping career on the side.
 

ZippyDSMlee

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Since when we ID good at anything? The last few games they have made have sucked, always on DRM is not the cure for games sucking.

A shame they have fallen so, their key checker system was one of the best DRM systems I have seen used as it did not bash you over the head unless you had a blacklisted key.
 

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blakfayt said:
Yeah, well ID can go choke on it, all they ever brought out was Doom, and that isn't good enough for me to accept that they accept this bullshit. I wasn't gonna get Diablo 3 either way (shit computer) but after hearing about the DRM I'm going to actively steer folks away from it. I don't have much in the way of persuasion, or many people that listen to me, but I will scream it from the hilltops, ALWAYS ON IS FUCKING STUPID, AND STUPID PEOPLE LIKE STUPID IDEAS.
Not a bad idea at all.

I know at least 3 other people that are waiting for Diablo 3, and I am going to try very, very hard to make them not buy it anyway.

Perhaps we should make it into some sort of organized movement?
 

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Nurb said:
If people can't play PC games with their internet down then they're basicaly 'renting' the game and it should be about 20 bucks.
Amen brotha. This is a great observation. If we have to get their permission every time we play, we shouldn't be paying for a full game as if it's ours.

After D2 sucking up 2.5 years of my time, I was tepid about D3. Now I'm just not buying it.
 

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"We won't listen to what you want, we'll TELL you want you want!"
That's all I got out of this.

I feel like Rage will flop anyways.
 

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Silenttalker22 said:
Nurb said:
If people can't play PC games with their internet down then they're basicaly 'renting' the game and it should be about 20 bucks.
Amen brotha. This is a great observation. If we have to get their permission every time we play, we shouldn't be paying for a full game as if it's ours.
We're already renting them though. We just buy licenses. In recent times, what that license entitles has become smaller and smaller.

To the original topic:

As products become more profitable, this sort of thing tends to happen. With more peers playing games, we get larger games and AAA games, but horrible DRM and nickle and dime style marketing.

Eventually the average Joe is going to have to decide how much they're willing to put up with for the sake of entertainment. I hope the average Joe "evens" this sort of stuff out, but logic says the "Average Joe" will just ask for more and talk about how awesome the game was.

We're gonna have some pay per minute stuff going on with always on internet connections that scan your hard drive for anything that looks like piracy. LIKE A BOSS.
 

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I can defend and argue for a lot of things, but Always On DRM is still bullshit and the world isn't ready for that sort of demand.
 

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The statement:

"Diablo 3 is required to be online to play at all times."

is equivalent to the statement:

"Diablo 3 will stop being playable after a while."

I have no idea how long "a while" is. I shouldn't have to worry about it.

Does any other medium have this problem? When you buy a book, do you lose the ability to read it after the writer dies and the publisher stops caring about it? No, because you still have the book!

Why, then, are developers intent on making it so that games WILL NECESSARILY die at the very instant they stop caring about it? I get it as far as MMOs and such go, but why introduce this for games that are supposed to have a singleplayer mode?

It's like they WANT other mediums to always be better than video games.
 

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I remember back when I first moved out of my parents' house I went entirely without internet access for the first six months, because I couldn't fucking afford that shit. It's still an optional expense. So unless they're declaring free internets for everyone they can fuck right off.

Oh and automatic updates can blow me, I'll decide what to use my bandwidth on, thanks.

Jesus fuck, when will they learn? When the bloody pirates win every time, shit's broken.

No sale.

How can all these people continue to be so out of touch?
 

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No, screw you dude, I can't say I'm a fan (or an enemy) of id, I'm rather ambivalent about them (though I gather John Carmack is awesome) but I have to say this. When I buy a game, I want to own that game. I want to do whatever I will with that game, and it is not up to the (previous) owner of the game (Blizzard in this case) how I play this game in a non-multiplayer fashion (and the multiplayer bit is really only to keep it balanced and stop hacking).

Also, what is up with his argument? What, were the people with dodgy internet just waiting for a big company to come out and piss on them before they beefed up their connection? Or is he saying that Blizzard's power will force the people with dodgy internet to fuck off.

Geez, Blizzard has been stupid. It wouldn't (I think, I could be disaterously wrong) be hard for Blizzard to have 3 ways of playing Diablo 3, Multiplayer and online singleplayer we already know about and characters from both can interchange. Just put in an offline multiplayer option, make it clear these characters can't be taken online. There, job done, no-ones pissed off.

Edit: What is it with this industry that makes us piss of certain customers (generally poorer ones/ones in non-city areas). We fuck over second-hand game buyers, we fuck over people with dodgy internet connections.

It's like a city making the greatest universties in the world, but some people can't get in them because some primary schools are shitty, and the city is just focusing on improving the universities and flipping the bird to the ones in shitty primary school areas.
 

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Eh if doom 4, or Quake 5 come out and anything that can be played solo requires an internet connection i won't be buying them.

Yes i have an internet connection that can be used for gaming. But it accounts for less than half of my time on the internet. In locations where i can't game due to proxys or dropout or plain simple no internet.

I have no problem with an always online game, If the game actually needs it. Like an MMO or even a mini MMO. You need to connect to the server so you have to have an internet connection.

however if i'm playing something like ME2, if it requires an internet connection other than for install validation. That's the end of me paying for it. There is no online component.

SP = Offline
MP = Do what you want with it.

So long as they continue with the practice of online only SP modes. I will either be missing or pirating that experience.


And "If you have a juggernaut, you can make change. I'm all for that. If we could force people to always be connected when you play the game, and then have that be acceptable, awesome." Is BS. Oh you have a juggernaut quick charge 200dollars a copy, you can just force them to do it.

I generally avoid pirating since games can be gotten reasonably cheap if you go to the right online stores. But everytime a company pulls a dick move taking away a little more of my gaming freedom. I become more and more inclined to pirate there products out of principle whether ill ever play them or not
 

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Bweh. I find the biggest advocates against "online only" that shout they won't ever play the game for that reason, will be the players picking the game up on release date.

Kinda reminds me of that "boycot MW2 because there are no dedicated servers! steam group" screenshot with everyone in it playing MW2..
 

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This video has been used to express opinions on many things but it is equally appropriate here.

Not everyone's internet is perfect. Even Steam recognizes the need for an offline mode.
 

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What in the flying fuck?
Having to be online to play a game type specifically suited to play offline.
That seems sane.
 

Sud0_x

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Mariena said:
Bweh. I find the biggest advocates against "online only" and shout they won't ever play the game for that reason, will be the players picking the game up on release date.

Kinda reminds me of that "boycot MW2 because there are no dedicated servers! steam group" screenshot with everyone in it playing MW2..
Ye of little faith, anything else to add?