Laterali wrote...
I've been reading a lot of articles about Diablo 3. I will never buy it, along with any other Blizzard game, but I've been keeping an eye on it, because I believe this may be the year gamers finally wake up, and stop eating what these companies have been shoveling, and Diablo 3 might be the Catalyst. uhh I hate that word now, thanks BioWare...
What astounds the **** out of me though, is that there are so many people eager to defend these shady practices. Why would anyone defend needing an internet connection for a single player game. Or thinking it's EA's right to basically tunnel our computer for information so it can sell it to their marketing affiliates?
It bugs me that so many people are willing to just bend over and take it.
Meh. Part of the issue is that this will happen anyway, you know? People were selling D2 items on the internet on shady websites, people were getting ripped off, and after a point gold was worthless as currency. People hacked, people cheated, people profited.
Far as I'm concerned, if it's going to happen anyway, why SHOULDN'T Blizz provide the service and profit from it? At least that way it'll be safe. And I hope they squeeze every cent they can out of goldfarming jerks. Their solution to cheating I have issues with, since it left me damn near unable to play for the first day or two and I almost died to a bout of lag and some monsters I could've easily wrecked.
That it diminishes the game as a whole is a sad thing, but at the end of the day I guess I grudgingly support the decision. Beats the hell out of chopping out chunks of the game to sell separately on launch like some OTHER companies...