Sign the Diablo 3 Offline Single Player Patch Petition

Raudulfr said:
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.
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Yes. Roll over and take it. You, I, the rest on this forum, and the top 5 gaming forums you can think of WILL NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Besides, personally, the only time I don't typically have access to the internet is when I'm in the air at 30K feet. Game cost isn't a factor.
 
Hmm, isn't this thread pointless to do AFTER this game sold millions of copies & told the developers anyways-on DRM is now accepted and even defendable? (apparently by some people anyhow)
 
I love the online playing. No need to worry about the data stored on PC. It's always there. The game wouldn't survive a week in offline mode. Keep dreaming... Blizzard is never going back to offline.
 
This was originally posted by WRECK. but blizz keeps deleting these and i feel without these posts noone will hold blizz accountable for their mistakes.

"Well I have to applaud Blizzard in all reality. From a business stand point it would seem like you're on the perfect track to make the shareholders at Activision very, very pleased.

You've taken a game with so much hype built around it, a game with a rabid and wildly large fan base, a game vaulting off of the massive success of the previous generation - and you've turned it into your sacrificial lamb.

I understand that WoW is dying. The cash cow that you have been able to depend on to fill your coffers is finally drying up. It had a great run. MoP is not likely to defibrillate the failing heart of what was once the WoW empire, and you know this. Starcraft 2, while an amazing game, cannot replace this cash cow - then again it wasn't meant to. How could it? Your business foresight is very, very attuned. Because of this you carefully planned your next chess move: Diablo 3.

What better way to birth another golden goose than to bank an entire game off of the most addictive part of what Diablo 2 was: the item grind. Pure brilliance. And so, from the ground up, you formed this game to be solely about item exchange - this would be the titan built to replace WoW's subscription based bankroll in the form of micro transactions.

Except one thing: you're boring.

On May 15th 2012, after nearly a decade of anticipation, we were given Diablo 3! Except, it's not quite Diablo 3. It's a slimmed down, cut up version of the Diablo 3 everyone was taught to expect. Except, it wasn't given to us, we still had to pay you full price for it: $60.

My how the mighty hath fallen. Why is it not Diablo 3, you say? Well let's see. Anyone remember all those teaser videos spoon fed to the community over the past 3 years? Videos slowly leaking to us glimpses of the content we could expect to experience? I do.

From nearly FOUR years ago:

@2:10 "These current weapons just won't do!":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K0YkUH6r6c&list=UUCGf0PicJgNp6yb7xsdZAwA&index=1&feature=plcp

I guess scrapping this idea all together was more developmentally cost effective.

@6:30 "Let's see what a real fight looks like."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4K6e2q10g&list=UUCGf0PicJgNp6yb7xsdZAwA&index=10&feature=plcp

Indeed, lets. I'm still waiting, actually. Is it just me or does that environment look entirely more engaging than the atmosphere we've purchased at release?

@2:00 Did he say randomized, dungeons, quests and encounters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAyxY7mjzI&list=UUCGf0PicJgNp6yb7xsdZAwA&index=7&feature=plcp

If their idea of newly generated fights, quests and environments is a continuous cycle of the same things from a pre-conceived list, he's spot on!

So where's the beef? - some might say. The beef is that this is not Diablo 3, this is an imposter. A hologram. An artificial replacement. A lame duck substitute for what hype built it up to be. A cut up and slimmed down version of what should have been. In essence: a slaughtered, sacrificial lamb.

That leaves myself and thousands of others saying indeed, where is the beef? Blizzard's answer: there is no cow level. But hey, we got rainbows and unicorns!

Is anyone still in complete denial about how truly boring this game is or have people started to shake off the honey moon dust?

You eliminated enchanting, PvP, pet companions and other things from the release version so that you could market it as part of a later expansion for more money. (This is a trend in gaming that several developers have been following; withhold content you've been advertising for the past two years and charge a premium for it at a later date. I shouldn't have expected Activision-Blizzard to be any different, and that is my fault. I wrongly assumed this group was made of trend setters and leaders, not followers - so shame on me.)

You didn't include a single player mode because you can't make money off of people if they aren't using the AH in a multiplayer format. Less work for you in the development stages, and forces people to engage in the micro-economy that your bankroll is based on. Again, brilliance. Which leads me to my final point:

There is so LITTLE dynamic to this game I cannot believe it took this many years to create it. In fact, I don't. So why the long wait? I'll tell you: economic law.

More specifically, the legality and complications that stemmed from the idea of a multinational game built around a Real Money Auction House. This process, I imagine, took years to iron out - while the game itself probably took no more than a few actual working years to complete (and it truly shows).

It doesn't take an overly intelligent mind to figure WHY they would want to use a RMAH and get a cut of (a lot of) the transactions. That's fine. Here's the problem: you built the entire game around a pure gear grind, and then force that gear grind to revolve around the AH, specifically the RMAH. There is literally no other dynamic. When you build a game from a purely business stand point, you're not building a great game - and a great game this is not.

In conclusion, gamers, do you really want to spend your time on yet another slave-like gear grind? If so, eat your heart out. You'll find no better place to do it! If not, there are a plethora of other games out there much more deserving of your $60, I promise.

Diablo 3 was built around Activision's greed. Participate at your own will.

Gamers hold grudges and people aren't going to forget this disaster. If you obliterate your true fan base, the pillars of your success come falling soon after.

I give this post less than a few hours before it is deleted by Blizzard moderators. Can't have that bad flavor out there, can we? Truth hurts.

Regards, a long time fan."
 
Man people get entirely too attached to games. If you don't find it enjoyable, don't play it and move on. There are like 5 other ARPGs coming in the next 6 months.
 
petitions giving people false hope in exchange for the most trivial of time commitments for over 100 years. Lets make some more.

You do not buy or play the game that is what people who actually care do.
 
damnit! im part of the problem. I should've not bought it and spent my money on some indie developer.

last time for me. i learned my lesson.
 
Plague_Injected said:
Online-DRM is only indefensible when it is done by certain publishers and developers, it seems.
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I noticed.
As far as I am concerned, with the exception of MP only games, or FTP games, no game should require constant internet access to run. One time online activations I can accept somewhat grudgingly, but an offline mode after activation is really a must imho.

They dressed it up as a way to prevent cheating, and everyone is for stopping cheaters right? They sound like politicians shoving shit down our throat telling us it is for the best. Blizz has joined Bioware and most every dev under EA, they no longer have the benefit of the doubt from me. I will assume the worst, and wait to buy til it is proven that the product meets acceptable criteria for me to do so, or never buy.
 
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I don't want single player offline D3. You couldn't play your single player characters online in D2, so I almost never played it in single player anyway. Improve the server uptime and provide consistent stable connections (is Act 3 always particularly laggy for anyone else?) and I'll be a happy camper.
 
I already voted with my wallet on SC3 and D3

if you want to really vote against this shit go buy sins of a solar empire
 
xIronCrossx said:
I don't own the game yet, blah blah blah
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You won't own it even when you do pay for it. You are only buying a license to use the software.

As much as I love a good dungeon rpg/crawl, I won't be buying into this.

DRM FAIL.
 
its really not that bad of a thing...I don't have too many issues with the always online issue. I like to see all my friends and see where they are and who is all online. the AH thing kinda blows all the fun out of farming, but whatever. As for downtime, i have a full time career and a wife...I think of it as an opportunity to do other hobbies and hang out with the wife.

My only beef is the Hardcore mode and the rare occasion of rubber banding.
 
GORANKAR said:
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.
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It is a technical limitation if you have to spend thousands more hours to program it for offline play. But I'm sure with your game programming expertise you already realized that...

I would like offline play as much as anybody but it's not going to happen with D3.
 
fps4ever said:
It is a technical limitation if you have to spend thousands more hours to program it for offline play. But I'm sure with your game programming expertise you already realized that...

I would like offline play as much as anybody but it's not going to happen with D3.
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They already have servers for online play. Thousands of hours to cut the server files down and make a local client. Believe it if you want. I Don't think I will.
 
GORANKAR said:
They already have servers for online play. Thousands of hours to cut the server files down and make a local client. Believe it if you want. I Don't think I will.
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OK, its hard to argue rationally with your lack of knowledge and expertise on the subject.
 
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