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[jocan2003]

This game truely saddens me deeply. I started 2012 excited for both Skyrim and D3, and look what we got delivered instead... Generic, dull games and, in the case of Diablo, mismanaged DRM policies and a soulless atmosphere for the sake of milking the cow even further. What's wrong with video game companies now? Did we reach point where they stopped trying to be creative?

Yes, they simply want MOOAR money and thats all, whatever they do to the IP or *soul* of a game is totally irrevelant to them, exept if its somebody else using the said *soul*. Now they will give a fuck because they can sue them to make money out of it.... Its all about money, good thing indie devloper started to raise and they now have access to more fund thanks to kickstarters and other platform. Fuck AAA and long live indie!

[fenrif]

There's still plenty of creative/good games coming out. Though I don't think games need to be creative to be good. Big studios do make decent games... It's just that good games in the past don't mean good games forever.

The problem is when people don't realise this, and the studios/publishers figure out that whatever they make will rake in the cash. Thats how you end up with ME3, D3, etc.

[fenrif]

So remember how D3 has always-online DRM because that way there'd be no low-down dirty hackers ruining the game for everyone?

Oh...

Oh......

[hemmingjay]

I agree that always on DRM sucks, but the hacking you are referring to is generic online game account hacking. The always on DRM was to prevent hacking of the files and disruption of the auction house. I don't like it for either concept, but let's not confuse the two issues.

[nenjin]

Actually, right now no one knows the extent of it. People with authenticators have been hacked. There's theories out there, like the Diablo 3 servers being subjected to SQL injection attack. Which pretty much points to why not having any part of your own account stored locally is freaking ridiculous. For the guy who has yet to go to the auction house, make a friend or play co-op, logging on to find his shit gone because of nothing they can control pretty much defines what was wrong with their decision.

[Sowelu]

So I hear that, since Diablo 3's release, Torchlight 2 pre-orders have been skyrocketing.

[fenrif]

The DRM has been defended in many places because "D2 was full of hackers and this will stop it!" Which is what I was referring to, whatever reason Blizzard has for putting in always-online DRM is completly inconsequential.

If Blizzard wants you to take your entire game experience onto their servers, they should at least be able to provide you with a decent level of security over your account. Doubly so if they want this RMT auction house thing to work. The issue isn't why the DRM is there, it's that it is there and it makes the entire experience less than if it wasn't.

[Trapezohedron]

So remember how D3 has always-online DRM because that way there'd be no low-down dirty hackers ruining the game for everyone?

Oh...

Oh......

Oh the irony.

Everybody knew that the always-on DRM was a bad idea. They tried to justify it, via cash shop, via promises of enhanced security. Now, what?

[Sensei]

Y'know, I reckon nobody playing just single player would have been hacked if it weren't for this always online thing. Because, y'know, they'd just be on their own computer.

A while ago I made a thread about this sort of thing. I meant originally to update every time something legitimately pissed me off, because somebody always says "DRM doesn't affect your experience if you aren't a pirate!" Which is crap. I haven't actually been updating it, but this is sure as hell as good time to reinforce the Compendium of Crap for future citation.

[nenjin]

Everybody knew that the always-on DRM was a bad idea. They tried to justify it, via cash shop, via promises of enhanced security. Now, what?

Accept that all Blizzard games now inherit all of WoW's problems, or quit buying Blizzard games. People with WoW authenticators were getting hacked 2 years ago to my knowledge, so it seems like very little has changed in that regard.

Diablo is the one and only title I've ever been deeply invested in (I got invested in WoW but not because I loved the game or the franchise.) So unless Titan and their other project turn out to be the most amazing games ever, I won't be buying any more games anyways.