Sign the Diablo 3 Offline Single Player Patch Petition

They already know we all want that, but it isn't going to happen. To do that Blizzard (Activision) would have to admit they are wrong and they don't need to do that to get your money, they already have it.
 
I never understood petitions.

Angry mobs with pitchforks I understand could at least get something going. Internet signatures on the other hand...
 
46 signatures isn't going to get anywhere. I don't even think 500,000 signatures would make a difference when Blizzard sold/distributed nearly 6.5 million copies world wide in the first week...
 
It's not on Steam anyway, so it is not like I am ever going to buy it. Besides, when has an online petition been anything more to a publisher than something to laugh at?

Don't bother with a petition, just don't buy it if it is not the product you want. That is what I did. I complain about the state of pc gaming all the time, but I actually just not buy the product if it is not at terms I can accept. If more people did the same it might be different. Then again, so many could care less till they have an issue that it is prolly pointless in the first place.
 
Useless petition. The game data is stored to Blizzard servers and the game isn't even designed to be played offline.
 
Druneau said:
I never understood petitions.

Angry mobs with pitchforks I understand could at least get something going. Internet signatures on the other hand...
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It got the attention of From Software, but I highly doubt Activision-Blizzard cares about their customers as much as From.
 
Lol, bless your heart. I remember when I was young and optimistic and thought I could change the world.

I hate to pee in your cornflakes, but Blizz DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK. They've sold 6 million copies, and will make an a$$load o' cash of all the dumbshits spending their allowance to buy that piece of gear out of their greedy ass auction house. Blizzard isn't the company they were 10 years ago, they've been corrupted by the endless supply of WoW cash and money is the only language they speak these days. The number of hold outs due to the always on DRM isn't even a drop in the bucket. If the amount of outrage before they released the game didn't change their mind, complaining now is about as useless as a straight man at a melissa ethridge concert.
 
We need to storm Blizzard HQ with torches and pitchforks and then demand an offline patch. It's the only way.
 
Lot of hate for a petition that a) no one is forcing you to sign and b) takes like 30 seconds to sign if you want to.

I agree that Blizzard probably doesn't give a shit, but that's a commentary on the failure of Blizzard, not the OP.
 
I don't own the game yet, but from what I hear with the hacking and all and when I do get the game I don't feel like going online when I play single player, signed.
 
Fastest selling game in PC history says people don't care about your petition. Money talks. Signatures don't.

BTW, I do agree with you. But I know this won't do anything.
 
Lets admit it, Blizzard has us by the balls!

A huge percentage of the people agree with the OP, shit I do!
As much as I enjoy playing with my buddies on (private matches only)
I would like to see 2 major things.

I want to play offline!
I want to zoom into my character

Now lets put our selves in Blizzard Stock Holder shoes!
Is it more profitable to get accounts hacked?
YES it is!
Because most people that get their accounts hacked
either start all over again or maybe take a few months off before
starting again.
This is our fault as gamers for allowing such CRAP!
yet 6.5 million still purchased it, play it, purchased auth and now
will be visiting AH and spending their hard earned cash!
Knowing that when they agreed to play online they gave up
all their rights and even accepted mandatory arbitration or even worst!

Welcome to the 21 century Gaming Industry!
 
You have 30 days to return the game. If 500k people returned the game I bet Blizzard would take notice, but a petition not so much.
 
I signed it. I honestly was going to outright boycot the game but decided against it. It may take a few more years but we all know it takes one or two bad games to get on the vast majority of the internets shit list. Look at Bioware. They may be going the way of Mythic if they dont make some drastic changes..
 
Blizzard's reality distortion field (yes, Blizz's) is too strong... :p
 
TBH I'd rather have Blizz be spending their time on balance/itemization issues than this. :p Sorry.
 
hmz said:
Useless petition. The game data is stored to Blizzard servers and the game isn't even designed to be played offline.
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Unfortunately this is true. Even if Blizzard complied (which will never happen) they would have to retool/redesign the game and remove much of its client/server function.

You would then have to patch this into millions of copies of the game.

The time to prevent has passed. Its a DRM online game , you've got no choice but to deal with it. I hate it , you hate but it is what it is.
 
-Sn1PeR- said:
While your at it sign the Starcraft 2 LAN patch...

Not going to happen.
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This personally bothers me more than anything else. Seeing players at professional matches lose their connections because of Battle.net bullshit is something I never imagined.

I still can't believe there isn't a LAN function in SC2. The first game has survived so long thanks to LAN function and a Spawn function.
 
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They need to replace the butterfly witch and other sunday morning cartoon stuff before we get offline SP.
 
I dont think its about drm at all. I think its about hacking and duping. the RMAH is the single most important thing when diablo 3 was being designed. The entire including inferno ( on act IV now) is all about the RMAH.
 
ikarinokami said:
I dont think its about drm at all. I think its about hacking and duping. the RMAH is the single most important thing when diablo 3 was being designed.
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This x1000.

FWIW, I've got about 50+ hrs in D3 (mostly SP), and I've only hit the lag "rubber banding" a few times. It wasn't a showstopper for me. That would be the only reason I'd sign this petition- if it was unplayable due to the connectivity.
 
I refuse to sign based solely on your choice of sunglasses.

That is all.
 
This crap is comedy - like it's really going to help. Dude's goal is 25k signatures - that's a drop in the bucket for Blizzard given all the sales.

The Meta-critic and worldwide Diablo Hardcore fans want an Offline Single Player Patch.
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No they don't. Half the clowns on metacritic are bitching about not allocating stat points or graphics and shit. What they want is Diablo 2.

$60 Price tag should warrant you play the game how you want.
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Then don't buy it! If they already did then it sucks to be them. This was known well ahead of release. This is just attention-whoring at this point.
 
The petition is going to do nothing...the game is coded for online play, you can't change that.
 
fps4ever said:
The petition is going to do nothing...the game is coded for online play, you can't change that.
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Pretending like it is a technical limitation is a BS excuse, a poor, and hardly believable one at that. It could have an offline mode if the Dev/pub desired it. They don't, and that, and only that, is why there will not be an offline mode.

I do agree the petition will do nothing. 6million+ in sales, and what promises to be a lucrative auction house, is hardly conducive to change. Only thing that gets through to these people is people not buying it. Even then, the dev/pub tend to blame piracy rather than accept their game sucks, or has issue making it too undesirable to buy. Ubi being a pretty good example of this.
 
hdawg06 said:
46 signatures isn't going to get anywhere. I don't even think 500,000 signatures would make a difference when Blizzard sold/distributed nearly 6.5 million copies world wide in the first week...
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Dark Souls Petition Proved to work.

They got a PC Version after nearly 46,000 signatures were posted.
 
And they spend hundreds (thousands?) of hours to code in a SP only for D3 for...how many additional sales? Seriously at this point, do you think it even recoup half the costs for them to do it? I seriously doubt it.
 
So I've played Diablo 3 for an hour or two almost every night since release, by myself, without any problems.

While I can understand that it inconveniences some people, the benefits to the current system far outweigh the cons imo. Everyone needs to just get over it.
 
The game is fine as is. You need to learn to roll on with technology and it's requirements.
 
Ruoh said:
The game is fine as is. You need to learn to roll on with technology and it's requirements.
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You mean roll over and take it?

GTFO lemming.

And don't come here bitching when all SP games require always-on Internet and cost $80.
 
TwistedAegis said:
And they spend hundreds (thousands?) of hours to code in a SP only for D3 for...how many additional sales? Seriously at this point, do you think it even recoup half the costs for them to do it? I seriously doubt it.
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Even if it was only 10,000 extra sales, that's $600,000 for hundreds* of hours worth of work. They've already made some $400,000,000 or more.

*made up generalization (though I don't make $600k for a couple months of work :D )

Take my dad for example. He is in his late 50's, played the first 2 extensively, but only in SP. He actually earned a max level D2 character. He simply isn't going to buy D3 due to spotty DSL and the reports of high latency. He doesn't desire to group up. It took him until 2004-2005 to max level his main character in D2.

ROI is all well and good, but when you're telling part of your userbase that you simply don't want to support them anymore, you do so at risk of whiney internet people.
 
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