I think its pretty shitty that you can't play D3 offline (I was expecting the offline/online snyc thing from SC2) but to be honest I understand why. Having played a good portion of D2 and having friends who went nuts with D2, the end game of item hunting got so messed up when people started hacking the game and hacked items were introduced. With the introduction of auction houses in D3, Blizzard both financially, legally and from a customer relation side can not afford to have the same thing as D2 happening with hacked items. So I understand why its online at all times, but wish there was an offline sync option.
Also blizzard is by far the most experience company when it comes to online services, obviously they fucked up somewhere, but these kind of issues are pretty normal for big online games. When was the last time a huge online game cameout (specially on PC) with no problems? Also a shit load of people are playing this, a number that most other company could not even comprehend; I understand the frustration with not being able to play it day 1, but I think blizzard has garnered enough cred to be given the benefit of doubt.
Also me and my friend, who is a big time D2 player, predicated these day 1 problems from playing the beta. We know this was gonna happen, in fact my friend is out of town working cause he knew it would take a couple days to get the bugs fixed; I don't like saying this and I do think blizzard did fuck up, but mb people should start expecting these fuck ups with PC games on launch day.
Server problems with a huge multi million player based online games are the norm, the question is why there isn't a offline sync option; however I can see why they don't have it if it can fuck with acutions houses etc. It's just a bad situation, the game looks fucking amazing though.
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