Quote Originally Posted by OmegaFenix View Post
For D3 specifically I think the main concern was for the AH & eventually the RMAH. Obviously Piracy plays a role as well (Before some senseless git starts berating me for blaming Piracy read the whole post please) even if doesn't work (Which I dont know, haven't seen any news on D3 being cracked) it wont stop companies from Trying it. Personally I dont care, I am always online anyways so yeah, I am also long past the point of raging because I can't play a specific game. Last night when D3 was down i simply fired up the xbox and played some Hitman Sniper Challenge followed by a bit of Borderlands.

For whatever reason the choice was made to have it always online the fact is, its been made. We have one of 2 options, play the game when its online or dont play it at all. A Choice everyone has to make for themselves.
It's easier for you because you are in Europe. But I still believe they could have added all of the features that present D3 has and future D3 might have and at the same time allowed personal game hosting play. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't be able to run their same monitoring software on an external game.

If they expect us to be always online to play then it's fair for us to expect their servers to be always online when we want to play