I'm hoping that by release they have taken the time to implement both options. I would enjoy playing both but as a cutthroat gamer I enjoy smashing peoples heads into the ground and them squealing on the inside watching as a ghost as I continue to dominate over the rest of their team. But hey, that's just me.
IF it takes that 1 activation, I'm sure finding 5 mins of internet to activate it wouldn't be difficult nor "inconvenient". If you can't have more than 5 mins of internet at a time you shouldn't have a computer, let alone be buying Diablo 3.
Ever tried to find internet in a 2nd world country? Funny, there are tons of people in Russia and Ukraine playing Diablo II because it had no problems of that nature at all. But apparently according to you we shouldn't be able to. I guess Diablo is an America-only game now? Have amazing internet and live in the best country or GTFO?
THIS is what I'm talking about.
I'm not American nor do I live in America. But based on your statement, people in Russia and Ukraine have 0 internet. Yeah so my relatives in Ukraine use magic to talk to me over skype, awesome. You completely missed my point, I'm not saying if they don't have internet they shouldn't play. My point is, its not unreasonable for blizzard to ask for you to activate your game before your able to play single player offline mode because i'm sure the process wouldn't take longer than 5 mins. This isn't the only game that would ask for some sort of activation either. I understand your point where 2nd world countries and so on have trouble with internet yes but in this "day and age" in which you claim not to exist, internet usage has skyrocketed. Specifically from the time d2 was released till now, as you can see in this 2009 visualization http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=it_net_user_p2&idim=country:UKR&dl=en&hl=en&q=ukraine internet usage. I'm sure its skyrocked since then too if you notice the pattern.
My last dispute post about real money items will be hear. The last thing I will say about paying for items summed up.
Real in game item shop = selling items alot more easy and convient and acessable and noticeable.
More easy means more people selling items.
More people selling items, means lower prices.
Lower prices, mean a bad economy.
Real money currency leads to inflated gold currency prices. As proved in every cash shop
What you fail to realize; if the item is SO easy to get that its able to flood the market, no one would buy it for real money anyways because they could just go farm it or buy it in the gold AH..
Honestly in this day and age I don't think it's all that unreasonable.
There is no 'day and age' of which you speak of.
It is unreasonable if you care about your players' convenience, which Blizzard obviously does not.
I'm in a village far away there's no internet here. I got my SCII copy. Install- crap I can't play it.
This is done for supposed (not guaranteed) profit while hurting the players.
Not all of us are stuck in cities with perfect high speed internet 24/7/4/12. Old school gamers especially value freedom a lot, this limits.
They offer single player offline. IF it takes that 1 activation, I'm sure finding 5 mins of internet to activate it wouldn't be difficult nor "inconvenient". If you can't have more than 5 mins of internet at a time you shouldn't have a computer, let alone be buying Diablo 3.
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Thats 10/24/2010. They've removed since then from what it sounds like.
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