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    What do you guys think of Blizzard's move on making the single player online as well as the multiplayer? I personally disagree with it, and believe that it's a large step backwards for online gaming. I hope it doesn't become a fad.

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    Your thinking is yesterday.

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    What do you think of Ubisofts version that doesn't work?
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    Maybe you guys didn't support the forefathers of it so religiously they might have thought twice about trying it. However on the other hand it is a change, it will come and will be implemented. It always has been a matter of time.

    Believe me if it was up to blizzard we'd be all having 1st class networks/infrastructures, but it isn't. Nor can't it be expected of them to lag behind with those who can't keep up. That glass of wine has been poured by all those who kept the wrong people in power and is still keeping them there.

    Steam forces you to be online even if it has an offline ability you cant be forever offline. That is much less fail than Ubisoft. Just because Ubisoft is retarded doesn't mean all version will be. No, the spoilt lan bratz are now complaining because for the first time they actually feel that feeling that places them not first or second but last when it comes down to crunch.

    ...That is what I think.

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    blizzard is doing what they need to do to get sales ... no cracked copy of diablo 3 online yet so what they doing is definitely working


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    Quote Originally Posted by weakest_link View Post
    blizzard is doing what they need to do to get sales ... no cracked copy of diablo 3 online yet so what they doing is definitely working
    Clearly you've not been following all the ends. There's been emulation since the first beta event, I've posted about it.

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    erm that sandbox thing is like window shopping to be honest :-/


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pr⊕phet View Post
    Maybe you guys didn't support the forefathers of it so religiously they might have thought twice about trying it. However on the other hand it is a change, it will come and will be implemented. It always has been a matter of time.

    Believe me if it was up to blizzard we'd be all having 1st class networks/infrastructures, but it isn't. Nor can't it be expected of them to lag behind with those who can't keep up. That glass of wine has been poured by all those who kept the wrong people in power and is still keeping them there.
    I've seen you post several times and it's almost like you believe that in a few years time we will have 10ms latency to the US and EU.

    The reality is that communication is very close to its maximum speed that it will ever be able to reach. The new WACS cable has a fibre2fibre point2point latency of 138ms. It is on the best route between ZA and the UK. That is the lowest that your latency will ever be able to get between ZA and UK.

    Will you be content if all games from now on require always on Internet only and your latency can only ever go as low as 150ms? I wouldn't be, and as such I hope that every company that tries to enforce this ends up with a lot of egg on their face.

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    They can force it. But give us a local server

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cranky View Post
    They can force it. But give us a local server
    Sadly recent experience has shown that not all companies care enough to provide local servers

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