If you've been wondering what kind of connection speed is recommended to play Diablo 3 when it comes out, Bashiok has just made a post in regards to it.
"For online games it's not usually the bandwidth (your 1800kb/s) but the latency that's a factor. Latency is the time it takes for data to leave your machine, hit the game server, and return back. In general games aren't sending enough data where it would actually bottleneck because of your bandwidth, there are exceptions but I think you should be ok."
So for all of you who are still using your 300-baud modems, clinging onto dreams of becoming an uber hacker like Matthew Broderick in WarGames, you might want to consider getting a broadband connection if you'd like to play Diablo 3 when it comes out.
Greetings, Professor Falken.
Hello, Joshua.
Shall we play a game?
Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War.
Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of Diablo 3?
Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
lol. up here in northern minnesota.....we dont have the luxury of broadband. if you live in town your able to get dsl broadband its abuot 7.5 mbps connection, then you can get satalite, which is probably the next best thing to the dsl, after that. its the shitty dial-up. im so glad i dont have that anymore.
but ya. thats the kind of connections we have up here. thank god by the time this game comes out ill be in college down in a city area with better connection. yay!!
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Blizzard has always been good at making their online games reasonably accessible even with slow connections, I am sure this will be no exception especially considering there won't be dozens and dozens of players in each game.
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I don't get the logic? He just said that the bandwith isn't that much of a problem, but the latency? So why are you suggesting getting broadband again? I get it, a 300-baud modem would be a tragedy, but a 2mbit connection will surely be enough? The packet a game sends and receives are very small...
You win the thread.
His statement did not mean we're gonna need broadband for Diablo 3; it means the opposite--that dial-up connections should work just fine so long as they are stable.
In a thread that has already devolved into a chance for each forum member to brag about his connection speed, I felt it important to highlight that fact again.
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So for all of you who are still using your 300-baud modems, clinging onto dreams of becoming an uber hacker like Matthew Broderick in WarGames, you might want to consider getting a broadband connection if you'd like to play Diablo 3 when it comes out.
Greetings, Professor Falken.
Hello, Joshua.
Shall we play a game?
Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War.
Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of Diablo 3?
Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
Fine.
but ya. thats the kind of connections we have up here. thank god by the time this game comes out ill be in college down in a city area with better connection. yay!!
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His statement did not mean we're gonna need broadband for Diablo 3; it means the opposite--that dial-up connections should work just fine so long as they are stable.
In a thread that has already devolved into a chance for each forum member to brag about his connection speed, I felt it important to highlight that fact again.