I didn't find anything else on the site referring to this topic. Are we going to be able to host LAN parties? Or is it going to be strictly online and single player experiences?
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NNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!.....alright I guess i'll have to cope but that really stinks. Unless 3 meg internet can support 4 pcs playing and still have a smoothe game play experience.
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"Give a man a skill tree, and he will become a Fire Sorc. Give a man 6 skills to choose from, pulling from all three trees, and he becomes a Fire Sorc that likes to shoot lightning to manage the bigger crowds."
NNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!.....alright I guess i'll have to cope but that really stinks. Unless 3 meg internet can support 4 pcs playing and still have a smoothe game play experience.
Well you could always let someone else host so it isn't laggy.
BTW, Daemaro. Did you just say that you can host local games? I don't know how Battle.Net 2 works, but if that's true then I don't know why no LAN would be a big problem. Sure, you can't all play with the same game, but apart from that it's just normal LAN.
And Aedric, are you saying that all future games will probably have the 'always online' DRM? What would happen if the servers are down (look at PSN)?
Yea you can still host games, and I'm assuming they'll still let you password protect them and choose who to invite. So you could have what is essentially a LAN party just over battle.net.
I expect it in a modern game. Its just a matter of time until offline play for new releases for most company's will disappear altogether.
People in outlying areas or with limited connectivity will have issues but I don't see it changing.
The day they take out single player play is the day im going to become a serial killer. I love my single player.....They cant take it away from me!!!
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They'll never take out single player. They'll do like a lot of games have already if anything and require you to authenticate it once online before you can play offline.
The internet IS the LAN, ain't you heard? Called cloud computing. Guys, clinging to the loosely informed internet architecture concepts of 1992 is not sexy. You're not gonna score any hipster points with horn-rimmed hotties by lamenting the loss of the network equivalent of recording your whole album analog to 4-track "Like the Beatles used to!"
Look folks, let's leave TCP/IP to the engineers. Remember, we're geeks, which means we know tons of buzz-words, but can't actually accomplish anything useful ourselves. I wanna plug in, push a button, and BLAMMO!! gib nasty bleeding resurrected torture victims without worrying about sockets, ports, 3-way handshakes, .3DES crypto keys, or anything.
GOOD NEWS NERDS WHO NEED TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM WHILE PLAYING AN INTERNET GAME!!!! You can still all bring your computers to the same place and plug them into a "router" which can "combine" your packets such that they can fly down the packet tubes (think Hudsucker Proxy here), they will go tell the "server" things like "Hey! I just moved my guy to these coordinates!" all at a bare minimum of internet bandwidth to Mr. John Q. Taxpayer and his 3-20Mbps internet connection.
Full disclosure: I LOVE LAN PARTIES! Hyjinks like "Hey Randy, your herpes is breaking out, which of these 7 2-liter bottles have you swigged from?" or "MOM, GOD DAMMIT STOP WATCHING TV AND RECORDING 2 OTHER PROGRAMS ON DVR AT THE SAME TIME YOU'RE USING ALL THE BANDWIDTH!!!!!" or who could forget that one guy nobody knows that well who spent the whole day before the party updating his drivers and then spends the whole time at the party screaming horrific curse words at his "PIECE OF SHIT STUPID NVIDIA DRIVERS!!" while we all feign sympathy while enjoying the game in question and laughing behind his back.
All I'm saying is, if you want to get together and play the game with friends in a room, you can. It will make no discernible difference whether your packets leave your internal network or not, so please get over the LAN BS, it's really silly.
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BTW, Daemaro. Did you just say that you can host local games? I don't know how Battle.Net 2 works, but if that's true then I don't know why no LAN would be a big problem. Sure, you can't all play with the same game, but apart from that it's just normal LAN.
And Aedric, are you saying that all future games will probably have the 'always online' DRM? What would happen if the servers are down (look at PSN)?
With PSN/SOE being down they have alot of folks ticked at them. But in there support I have to respect that they took there other venues down to help "reduce" the amount of damage. I forsee in the near future almost all Games that require server authentification going down and lots of folks not being able to play or what not because of these attacks.
I really am not a fan of the way games are going and I know I will be moving out of Internet areas and will be relying on my games to be all OFFLINE in all forms for my entertainment. *** Looking at deep deep woods/mountains ***
I'm not sure on the point of lan parties with Diablo.. Unless I'm missing something, there are zero benefits of a Diablo lan party opposed to playing with those people through B-Net.. God knows the one person in the world without internet is going to borrow his buddies net book to rage over me saying that.. lol
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Zero benefits? It's fun to play with others in the same room as you. There's no need to type to communicate. More than likely, these are your friends or people you know, so it's easier to converse and do other things, like go out before/after, order food, etc.
Think of why it is more fun for two(or more) people to share beers over the same television set watching football than it is to watch in their own homes, alone.
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Well you could always let someone else host so it isn't laggy.
Also 3meg internet should be able to do that.
I expect it in a modern game. Its just a matter of time until offline play for new releases for most company's will disappear altogether.
People in outlying areas or with limited connectivity will have issues but I don't see it changing.
BTW, Daemaro. Did you just say that you can host local games? I don't know how Battle.Net 2 works, but if that's true then I don't know why no LAN would be a big problem. Sure, you can't all play with the same game, but apart from that it's just normal LAN.
And Aedric, are you saying that all future games will probably have the 'always online' DRM? What would happen if the servers are down (look at PSN)?
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I'm pretty sure thats still how it works right? You make the game, you host it but it's still going through battle.net.
Anyways I never realized that many people used LAN. I never did really. Or well, I could have used a private battle.net game just as easily.
Only part that makes me sad is we won't see things like the Eastern Sun mod.
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The day they take out single player play is the day im going to become a serial killer. I love my single player.....They cant take it away from me!!!
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
You and me both, brotha.
Half the time, I played in private games all by myself in Diablo II
Look folks, let's leave TCP/IP to the engineers. Remember, we're geeks, which means we know tons of buzz-words, but can't actually accomplish anything useful ourselves. I wanna plug in, push a button, and BLAMMO!! gib nasty bleeding resurrected torture victims without worrying about sockets, ports, 3-way handshakes, .3DES crypto keys, or anything.
GOOD NEWS NERDS WHO NEED TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM WHILE PLAYING AN INTERNET GAME!!!! You can still all bring your computers to the same place and plug them into a "router" which can "combine" your packets such that they can fly down the packet tubes (think Hudsucker Proxy here), they will go tell the "server" things like "Hey! I just moved my guy to these coordinates!" all at a bare minimum of internet bandwidth to Mr. John Q. Taxpayer and his 3-20Mbps internet connection.
Full disclosure: I LOVE LAN PARTIES! Hyjinks like "Hey Randy, your herpes is breaking out, which of these 7 2-liter bottles have you swigged from?" or "MOM, GOD DAMMIT STOP WATCHING TV AND RECORDING 2 OTHER PROGRAMS ON DVR AT THE SAME TIME YOU'RE USING ALL THE BANDWIDTH!!!!!" or who could forget that one guy nobody knows that well who spent the whole day before the party updating his drivers and then spends the whole time at the party screaming horrific curse words at his "PIECE OF SHIT STUPID NVIDIA DRIVERS!!" while we all feign sympathy while enjoying the game in question and laughing behind his back.
All I'm saying is, if you want to get together and play the game with friends in a room, you can. It will make no discernible difference whether your packets leave your internal network or not, so please get over the LAN BS, it's really silly.
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With PSN/SOE being down they have alot of folks ticked at them. But in there support I have to respect that they took there other venues down to help "reduce" the amount of damage. I forsee in the near future almost all Games that require server authentification going down and lots of folks not being able to play or what not because of these attacks.
I really am not a fan of the way games are going and I know I will be moving out of Internet areas and will be relying on my games to be all OFFLINE in all forms for my entertainment. *** Looking at deep deep woods/mountains ***
Think of why it is more fun for two(or more) people to share beers over the same television set watching football than it is to watch in their own homes, alone.