However, this thread moved me to get Torchlight. This disappoints me, and I may not end up buying it because of it. I do think they're doing most of this for security, but I also think they didn't like the results of trying to control the modding scene in Starcraft II (and neither did modders), and they're just going to dump the concept if it doesn't fit their paradigm. The cash auction house is interesting, but I do see how the other aspects I don't like are being deployed to protect it. It's also stupid to make me publish a Starcraft II mod on just because I wanted to see how Zerg played when I made zerglings blind and use no food. Their connection is solid, but mine isn't. Exploring that space of possible games is more and more what I do with games. I'm usually not looking to make a big concept mod, just a small reworking of how the game could have been played. I'll play through once, then tweak things and play again. And the games are consistently fun.īut I spend probably 80% of my gameplay on modding. Sometime in the last few years, they released a patch that added an entire synergy system for skills. The last patch for Diablo II was a full decade after it was released. Blizzard has a tremendous track record on doing online gaming. So I have trouble seeing them as the same.Īnd there's this. For Ubisoft, I have a game on Steam I've still never played because all five times I've tried to launch the game the servers haven't been available. The difference between Blizzard's always online functionality and Ubisoft? Barring patch day for WoW, I can't remember a time I wanted to get online for a Blizzard game and could not. But regardless, I know I'll enjoy the shit out of Diablo 3, almost certainly, so I'm going to buy it. They say that the always online is to create a better user experience. I'd have to be burned at least twice on Blizzard titles to prevent me from purchasing them automatically, because I'd assume the first one is a fluke. I think that's a fair reason for me to give them leeway. I put down money on everything Blizzard makes (although I may be done with WoW expansions) because I have NEVER regretted a purchase of a Blizzard title, and there's very few developers I can say that about. Blizzard has a reputation for making excellent games that's almost unassailable. It's not strange that Blizzard gets more leeway than most companies.
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