care to be nice and give me the source of this. please be a blizzard person. i just like to confirm the info i get or have just so i don't look stupid when i tell someone elseXzi said:Any information regarding offline single-player was taken from posts made in 2009. It was just this month that they told us there will be none whatsoever. Of course you can still make/join an empty server and play alone, but there won't be any difference. Followers are available in a full server or one with just you.tony2077 said:diablo 3 is what I'm getting it still has singleplayer it may be online but its still there since as far as its wiki page say the followers are sp only. anyone care to confirm or deny this.
Xzi said:Ebay doesn't charge a person for listing an item, charge the buyer to buy it, and then charge the seller again for taking out their money once they've sold the item. Blizzard is doing all of these things with the cash auction house. Essentially, this:Maniclings said:Snip
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/checkpoint/114/ (thanks Dexter)
All the best items will be listed on the cash auction house, so yes, you will either be forced to use it or have a lesser character than everybody else. So forget PvP, which in my mind, is a big part of the game.
Yes, Blizzard is in fact the only company doing non-MMO online-online games right now. Ubisoft was the first to introduce that DRM, but the feedback was so bad that after releasing it along with just ONE of their games, they have never used it since. They already did the work of making that stupid mistake and having to retract it for Blizzard, so Blizzard should know better.
I have nothing against developers wanting to make money as long as it doesn't interfere with releasing the best, most diversely accommodating product possible. Blizzard used to do that. Now they're making design choices which limit your play style, and even limit some peoples' ability to play at all. Because of greed. That's when it becomes a negative. Especially given the obvious fact that the mad cash they already have flowing through to them due to WoW is not shared among the people that actually MAKE the games. It all goes straight to the top. To the heads and CEOs of Activision, mostly, and that means Kotick.
FYI, the game is going to get pirated anyway. Assassin's Creed 2, which was the first game to use online-only DRM, was one of the most pirated games ever released, because nobody wanted to support that type of bullshit business practice. And now Diablo 3 will probably overtake it as the most pirated game ever, as even people who buy it legitimately will want some way to play it offline.
I highly doubt that you can't understand why people would have problems with these design choices. You just discount their gripes as not valid because you believe Blizzard can do no wrong. Which is, obviously, a ridiculous notion. The part of me that loved their previous games and loved Diablo 2 has not changed. Blizzard has changed.
http://www.diablowiki.net/Auction_House_FAQHow does the auction house system work?
Players can open the auction house interface from anywhere in the game to make purchases or list items for sale. Items can be sold from the shared stash (storage shared among all the characters on your Battle.net account) or from any individual character?s inventory. When posting the item, the seller picks whether it will be sold in the gold-based auction house or the currency-based auction house. The item is then held by the auction house system until the listing expires or a purchase is made. Items that are not sold are returned to the seller?s shared stash, and items that are sold are delivered to the winning bidder?s shared stash. In either case, the auction house system will deduct a nominal fixed transaction fee from the seller, the amount of which is determined by whether or not the item was sold (see below). For the currency-based auction house, players will have a few different options for how to pay for item purchases and receive funds for item sales, as discussed elsewhere in this FAQ. There may be differences in how this system will work in different regions of the world. We?ll provide further details at a later date.
How is the transaction fee determined?
A nominal fixed transaction fee will be deducted from the seller for each item listed in the auction house. This fee consists of a fixed charge to list the item, which is assessed whether or not the item is successfully sold, and an additional fixed charge that is assessed only if the item is sold. Because the listing portion of the fee is charged even if the item doesn?t sell, it will be in the seller?s interest to list items he or she believes other players will be interested in, and to do so at a competitive price. Specific details related to the transaction fee for the currency-based auction house will vary by region and will be announced at a later date.
Please note that we plan to waive the listing portion of the fee for a limited number of transactions per account. In other words, for these transactions, the seller will only pay a transaction fee if the item is successfully sold, and that fee will not include the listing charge. We?ll have further details on this as well at a later date.
Hey, World of Warcraft could very well be enjoyed solo and offline, but there's no outcry (anymore, anyway). There are always people that will make their displeasure known, but the outrage with the DRM got so big mostly because some of the games protected by it are single-player only and that's just unjustifiable.Xzi said:words
well i can play by myself so I'm good hopefully down the road they won't change thatXzi said:Sure. The source was an interview with Bllizzard by PC gamer. This article links to all of it:tony2077 said:care to be nice and give me the source of this. please be a blizzard person. i just like to confirm the info i get or have just so i don't look stupid when i tell someone elseXzi said:Any information regarding offline single-player was taken from posts made in 2009. It was just this month that they told us there will be none whatsoever. Of course you can still make/join an empty server and play alone, but there won't be any difference. Followers are available in a full server or one with just you.tony2077 said:diablo 3 is what I'm getting it still has singleplayer it may be online but its still there since as far as its wiki page say the followers are sp only. anyone care to confirm or deny this.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/01/diablo-iii-no-mods-online-only-cash-trades/
You don't even know what the fee is or how many free uplistings you get, the seller only gets charged for listing when they are listing alot of items. On ebay listing items is free so you get things like "AIR GUITAR WITH AIR CASE $5 with $3 shipping"Xzi said:Oh okay, so just the seller gets assraped by fees twice. Not the buyer. How is that better than listing stuff on eBay for free again?Maniclings said:http://www.diablowiki.net/Auction_House_FAQ
Could you please point me to where the seller pays a fee to buy the item.
Their system is made to combat low level item spamming, ridiculous pricing, and to some extent counter gold farmers, as it will cost you money to post large numbers of items, but everyone gets a number of free item listings. If the game is anything like diablo 2 rare items aren't going to be falling out of the sky and you will not be finding masses and masses of them.
Why do you need to be able to play the game offline so bad? unless you have bad internet what exactly is the reason? why does it effect you in such a huge negative way that you won't buy the game??
Coldie already gave good reasons why this game would be kinda silly to pirate and I agree with everything he said.
Honestly do you really have nothing to do if your net connection goes down? personally I have books to read, other games I can play, people I can speak to. It isn't going to kill me if my net goes down and I can't play d3 for the period that it is down. Are you really going to be effected in a big way by it being online only? Honestly?
As for offline play, while my internet connection is, and to some extent always has been, just fine, I still preferred to play offline with a separate character at times. Diabllo 2 was also a great game for LAN parties and travel. Diablo 3 won't be playable in either of those scenarios. More than that, I address the issue for all those players still stuck with dial-up or no connection at all. Why would Blizzard want to lose the revenue generated by that part of the fan base? What do they stand to gain?
So it all boils down to:Xzi said:words