On Sunday morning, Blizzard tweeted that it was actively monitoring an ongoing DDoS attack that was affecting latency and connections to its games.
  • Gangreless@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Forced online is literally the only reason my husband and I didn’t buy this game. We can’t be the only ones and they’re definitely missing out on a good chunk of money

  • sw2de3fr4gt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    People are still buying games from Blizzard? It’s like everybody forgot what a terrible company it is.

    • simo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I started playing PoE after getting to somewhat endgame in D4. Got to level 60 something and my buddy and I were like…sooo…whatcha wanna do now? Dungeon I guess? Then we just kinda stopped playing. The rubber banding and random lags were super annoying and resulted in many deaths - we had a great time but needs a lot more cookin in the oven.

      PoE on the other hand has been super refreshing and non laggy (the joy of 10 yrs of development I guess) and there’s soo much to chew on. In a way it feels like a natural extension of D2 (played D2R for the first time last year).

        • simo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It’s real good man. D2 I found had a great loot feeling, but the general signposting of where to go was shit. But this was mostly because they didn’t update D2 in the remastered version much because I guess they knew people would be pissed if they updated it too much.

          D4 was initially epic with the bois, but the slow grind and analysis paralysis of loot was annoying in the end. So much garbage loot with no filters and way too many affixes on weapons, you sit there for ages wondering if that bit of loot is better…or worse?? Or maybe good for that thing, but not the other. Urgh, and the legendary aspect thing was annoying to manage (shit, I found a weapon, but uh oh, I don’t have an aspect in reserve to apply to this cool new weapon, so my build will be fucked??? yay!)

          PoE has that D2 loot feeling, power growth and SPEED that D4 simply can’t have due to level scaling. Honestly, why is a group of minions giving me a hard time in D4 when in PoE I can blast a screen worth of little shits in one go? Super fun.

          I don’t mind being a shit character when i’m level 10, NOT 70. It was a pain post campaign in D4, I should be a god not some weak maggot after I saved Sanctuary lol.

          Give it a shot, it’s free :) I think it’s due an update in August [new league].

    • Anemervi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      How do you know that no one who has played PoE has needed/wanted offline mode?

      Personally I don’t play PoE because of their policy on respeccing. An offline mode would likely make it possible for me to bypass that with mods.

      Speaking of mods D2 had awesome ones so it’s sad 3, 4 & PoE are so locked down with the online mode to prevent this.

      • uranibaba@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I don’t, but I have never seen anyone complain about it. I am but one voice is this world, though.

  • RoboticMask@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    While I don’t condone DDoS attacks, the only reason for D4 to be online-only is monetization IMO: Blizzard wants to sell cosmetics, so people have to see other people wearing them. There is little gameplay benefit from being an MMO-lite.

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Probably all sorts of datamining regarding the way people play also. Can’t do that so easily if people are playing offline.