"Blizzard Talks Diablo III’s New Path, Defends Online Req"
Well, their so-called new path is a path that I still will not be traversing, because I still have to be online to do it. Oh well, I guess. *shrug* There are better, more interesting paths to travel upon out there.
RPS: What if people don’t want to commit to a community? What if they just want to play the game?
Martens: We didn’t make that game. That’s the straight-up answer. We did not make that game, and we’re not going to turn this game into that game. We have the online mode because we learned a lot over the many, many years that Diablo II was in development.
That was the wrong choice to allow people to play offline, and we still stand by that. And we think Internet access is widespread. If someone has no Internet access, then yeah, Diablo III is not the game for them.
That pretty much sums it up, right there. It really sucks because, like BioWare, Blizzard used to be on my "Day 1 purchase, no-brainer" short-list, but now, more so than even BioWare, they are on my increasingly huge "never buy, under any circumstances" list, precisely because of obnoxious, pompous, hubristic shit like the above.
RPS: What if people don’t want to commit to a community? What if they just want to play the game?
Martens: We didn’t make that game. That’s the straight-up answer. We did not make that game, and we’re not going to turn this game into that game. We have the online mode because we learned a lot over the many, many years that Diablo II was in development.
That was the wrong choice to allow people to play offline, and we still stand by that. And we think Internet access is widespread. If someone has no Internet access, then yeah, Diablo III is not the game for them.
That pretty much sums it up, right there. It really sucks because, like BioWare, Blizzard used to be on my "Day 1 purchase, no-brainer" short-list, but now, more so than even BioWare, they are on my increasingly huge "never buy, under any circumstances" list, precisely because of obnoxious, pompous, hubristic shit like the above.