"Diablo 3 PC won’t get offline play, Blizzard say co-op 'is the ideal'"

So, as just about everyone expected, Blizzard is still completely out of touch. The arrogance that they display when they claim to know better than I do how I should enjoy their game (were I to ever actually buy and play it, which at this point is something very unlikely to happen, precisely because of this stubborn hubris on their part) is still pretty staggering, just as it has always been from the start. I give absolutely zero fucks about multiplayer, and while the always online thing is still in place, they will continue to have lost a sale from me. Well, more than one sale, actually, because I don't plan to buy any future Blizzard games either, because of this.

The thing that's even worse about all this is that they totally did remove the online requirement from the console versions, as stated in the article. As such, there is absolutely no good reason whatsoever that they can't also release a similar version of Diablo 3 for the PC.

Besides, as pretty much everyone knows, this isn't really about the "community" at all. It's about trying to salvage what they can of the proven colossal failure that was the real money auction house (which even the game's designers believe ruined the game) by continuing to ramrod that unwanted shit down gamers' throats. Can't do that if they remove the always online bullshit, naturally.

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And here is RPS's take on it.

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AVGN: Tiger Electronic Games

Man, I never knew that the rabbit hole extended down quite so far.

Personally, I had the Gauntlet game, because someone gave it to me (unsolicited) for Christmas or a birthday or something. Since this was before I got a Game Boy (the first legitimate video game system that I ever owned), I actually thought it was pretty cool at the time. Beyond that, I played the Super Mario Bros wrist game because someone in my elementary school had one.

I had no idea about the existence of either the Game Com or the R-Zone until now, though. o_O