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Cracked: 5 Reasons 'Diablo III' Represents Gaming's Annoying Future
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-diablo-iii-represents-gamings-annoying-future/
My personal favorite:
"We Thank You for Your Patience. Also, This Is the Future of Gaming, Fucker."
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For 7 years, proving that if you quote "fuck" you won't get banned.
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Pretty hilarious column. Thanks for posting.
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Really funny-hope it's not true
They forgot #0: Every major release will have hundreds of fanboys inflicting brain degeneration on themselves by raging over the internet.
think i'll be subscribing to their website and mailings......this writup was awesome....hehe.
I love cracked. Im on there website at least twice a week. Its amusing and often i find myself learning something.
Although the author's points are valid, he sort of overlooked the main reason why D3 is online only. It was spelled out by Daety a while ago and it's not just about DRM. They want to "encourage" everyone to use RMAH. RMT is supposed to become a huge source of profit for Blizzard. They get 15% cut from every deal and if you want to transfer your earnings to PayPal, that a paddl... err, I mean that's another 15% fee.
Think about digital distribution: it allowed publishers to eliminate costs associated with physical copies... yet the price remained the same and now we actually pay more for a digital copy than we used to pay for a physical copy in the pre-DD era. Think about sub-based MMOs where "new" content is mostly just gear treadmill and more timesinks. Think about pay2win cash shops in F2P games. Think about NCSoft selling GW2 beta access for $60 while the game doesn't even have a release date.
So the really annoying part about this "annoying future" is that it's actually the present. AAA titles are already being designed, balanced and marketed with only one intention: to squeeze as much money out of players as possible. Everything else is being completely disregarded.
MMORPG genre is dead. Long live MMOCS (Massively Multiplayer Online Cash Shop).
Already read the article yesterday, it is a good one however. Thought it would be nice to post it here, good job
Main MMO at the moment: Guild Wars 2
Waiting for: Pathfinder Online
They aren't the first to use the "must be connected to our servers for everything" DRM. Which did not end well for that other game company either. Sadly, people knew this one had it, bought it anyway, and will now complain about it.
STOP BUYING THIS CRAP.
It will not prevent piracy.( I believe there are allready offline mods.) And, you still have to deal with the status of their various servers just to play an offline/single player game. Buying it just sends them the wrong message.
Now, don't get me wrong. I hate cheats, unofficial mods used to cheat, exploits, and piracy. But, this crap is not the answer(as we have already seen right away) and can just create more problems/hurdles to overcome.
Agreed. I can't/won't buy this game on pure ethics alone.
If these are all the flaws they can come up with, then they really had some trouble finding them.
Besides, I'm getting a bit tired of the whole "always online for singleplayer" stuff. People need to get it into their heads that this is more like the original Guild Wars then Diablo 1 & 2. The only thing missing is the city stuff of Guild Wars, the rest is the same. I played Guild Wars as a single player game, but I didn't hear people there bitch about "offline single player".
It's like buying lift tickets for a ski field more than buying a pair of skis.
+1
Haven't bought D3 in big part cause of this and I don't plan to.
Yay, the weather's crap outside and guess what? Diablo servers are down because Blizzard suddenly decided to "fix" an issue with Battlenet on a Sunday! This is just brilliant.
I won't free up any future weekends for gaming again!
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That article and the whole outrage is around 5 years late.
You should have complained when this kind of shit was slowly creeping into our games.
I have zero sympathy for the complainers now, i've been saying this shit for years and nobody would listen.
Satire or not, that was a horrible article for me to read. Shock value is all that was trying for. The rest of the points sounded like some whiny spoiled brat who didn't get his way. Who talks like that? Even in the military we didn't talk like that. Felt like I just swam in a sewer full of "sewage", ;D reading that. Yeah, I'm probably a minority here, but I don't care, I don't need vulgarity or expletives to make opinion pieces more "fun" to read.
Every single one of the 5 points I was like, "grow up", "boohoo", "really, this is your main complaint?"...just pointless. I'm enjoying the game, could care less that it's online and not offline, and server outages happen for every major online game in history. It's par for the course. People crying about it need to realize the world does not revolve around them. I'm sure this will fall on deaf ears.
I believe D3 loads a lot of data from the servers while playing. Would need a cracked server to play on aswell.
I wonder if GW2 will get as much guff from people on this site because it is "online only"...
i'm sure their servers will be perfect the first day of launch...
The things people come up with to hate on a blizzard game is ridiculous.
Anyways it's 2012, if you can't deal with playing the game online all the time maybe you should stick to console games.
you could just as easily say: If game developers cant deal with running servers full time for people to play on maybe they shouldnt make games that are 100% online.
the online only irritation is because D3 allows Single Player -- GW2 is a mmo
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GW2 is a MMO.. Diablo 3 is a single player game with multiplayer option. I think you completely misunderstood the entire article and the issues it touches.
Also way too many misinformed people (and studios..) keep mentioning piracy without understanding that it is in fact a positive force, and not just for spreading culture to people who could never otherwise afford it.. it also boosts the sales, increasing the profits of the studios (link).
And so, Blizzard has shot itself in the foot, not only alienating many customers, and former Diablo fans, but also hurting it's own sales. Since less people will get to try Diablo 3, because it can't be pirated, less people will buy it than if there was this "free preview with limits" option.
What Blizzard should have done, was to release a free single player version of D3, with an optional purchase of the multiplayer/money trading feature. This would effectively remove any need to pirate it, and people who wanted to play multiplayer, would still buy it to play with friends.
My Guild Wars 2 First Beta Weekend "reviewette" : http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/4944570/thread/349125#4944570
Was the author of that article 14?
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GW2 is an MMO. D3 is not.
All previous Diablo games have been SPRPG games that you can play offline. D3 follows the same game design but forces you to connect to Blizzards servers just to play a single player game.
The only reason they are doing this is to encourage you to use RMAH.
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With so much of the world still waiting on high speed internet, but having access to computers I think this was a bad move, and probably ended up costing the company some box sales.
"I am not in a server with Gankers...THEY ARE IN A SERVER WITH ME!!!"
I dont see how making it online only will hurt sales
Think of all the people who will go buy it b/c they cant pirate it.
Think of all the people who wont buy it because there is no demo and they cant try it first
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