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damn, I just wanted a diablo fix.

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[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s silly and sad that Diablo even requires a Battle.net connection 😞

[–] senicar@social.cyb3r.dog 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

While the primary motivation for it is definitely cynical, I am quite enjoying the MMO-lite aspects of the game. Running into strangers in the wild and doing activities together feels better in Diablo than it did in Destiny.

Edit: it would be pretty sick if they had an offline-only "realm." D3 on switch was great for long flights and other places without steady internet. D4 is probably unplayable in air.

[–] greenskye@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. I understand people's complaints, but I really enjoy the destiny style mmo-lite model and am still looking for the first game to fully realize it's potential (both destiny and D4 fall a bit short). Aspects of D4 definitely work better than destiny however, primarily the open world events.

Nothing quite as immersive as questing along with BallBag, your powerful level 6 friend.

[–] Skiptrace@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why Diablo 4 sucks. It's made by Blizzard.

Buy and play Last Epoch instead. You have the option to play completely offline. Or play with Online Characters too. It's what Modern Diablo should be.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks interesting, I'll give it a try later on! I generally don't like to go for early access games, but these days it feels like just about every major game is for all intents and purposes, "early access" without the title...

[–] Skiptrace@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It's already basically "released" they just added Multiplayer.

[–] bobfinger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Tu for the rec. I'll check it out

[–] TGQP@vlemmy.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any games that require online for single player should be heavily boycotted no matter how good they might be.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what is your stance on games like Call of Duty where they're only always-online in one platform? Since 2019, CoD campaigns on PC require an internet connection, but there's no such requirement on console.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I ran into this with Jedi Fallen Order recently. It was patched to require an EA launcher and an active internet connection sometime recently. I got it on sale for $4 and still feel ripped off. There's a way to circumvent it, but they sure convinced me not to buy the sequel, which likely also has this same online only requirement only on PC as well.

[–] gelatinepudding1@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] candid@board.minimally.online 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whoa, can you explain more about this? Seems neat, is it a backup community-run server?

[–] buedi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Never heard of that! Thanks for the link!

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Hope they fix it soon!

I'm glad I had guests over and then going to light up the grill tonight. Good thing I didn't really have time to play!

Just played some SC2. I think you meant that Diablo servers are down, not Battle.net.

[–] Willy@latte.isnot.coffee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

might just be a comcast issue?

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