Diablo 3
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No, unfortunately not. Though I am playing it's great-great-grandfather right now. 
I've heard it's one of those "It's singleplayer, but you need an account on the internet AND you need to have a connection to the server ALL THE TIME" things. Which I personally find to be rather annoying. See, the point of a single player game (at least for me) is that you can play it on your own. Imagine someone with a bad connection, less than DSL or *gasp* no internet at all (how is that even possible?) trying to play a single-player game. Just a few years ago, these people could play their games just fine. Now everyone needs an internet connection for something that shouldn't even require one. Even worse, it's launch day and your game doesn't work because the game company's servers are offline. When other people decide when I can play the game I've paid for, something is wrong with the gaming world.
Of course, I can see the advantages. STO is patching all the time, it ensures fast delivery of hotfixes. But that's no excuse, there are numerous other ways to do this.
Offline gaming for the win, my base are belong to me and no one else.
I've heard it's one of those "It's singleplayer, but you need an account on the internet AND you need to have a connection to the server ALL THE TIME" things. Which I personally find to be rather annoying. See, the point of a single player game (at least for me) is that you can play it on your own. Imagine someone with a bad connection, less than DSL or *gasp* no internet at all (how is that even possible?) trying to play a single-player game. Just a few years ago, these people could play their games just fine. Now everyone needs an internet connection for something that shouldn't even require one. Even worse, it's launch day and your game doesn't work because the game company's servers are offline. When other people decide when I can play the game I've paid for, something is wrong with the gaming world.
Of course, I can see the advantages. STO is patching all the time, it ensures fast delivery of hotfixes. But that's no excuse, there are numerous other ways to do this.
Offline gaming for the win, my base are belong to me and no one else.
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Oh Haaiill Yeah! What Terra said! Preach on it, Mah Brutha!
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I got Diablo 3 for free from Blizzard, only because I signed up for the Annual pass for World of Warcraft, played Diablo 3 until level5 and was already itching to get back to my other games, though my son has enjoyed playing it heaps and now has a level12
Rawks
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Just downed Diablo on normal, and have started on Nightmare.
Kat - its fun with others, I can find it quite boring playing by oneself
I believe some of the reasons for the whole, 'online only' thing is, to fight the rampant piracy that is associated with basically all Blizzard games (i'm guilty of this), to keep a sense of community, and to make the auction house accessible, also, to fight character and item modification of game files on your computer.
Of course I would have liked to be able to play singleplayer offline completely, but its the way the gaming world is moving, with how cable/dsl internet is becoming a social norm, for the most part.
Kat - its fun with others, I can find it quite boring playing by oneself
I believe some of the reasons for the whole, 'online only' thing is, to fight the rampant piracy that is associated with basically all Blizzard games (i'm guilty of this), to keep a sense of community, and to make the auction house accessible, also, to fight character and item modification of game files on your computer.
Of course I would have liked to be able to play singleplayer offline completely, but its the way the gaming world is moving, with how cable/dsl internet is becoming a social norm, for the most part.
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Newsflash! Someone in the DIII dev team is nuts. 
This someone has added the "Burning Axe of Sankis" as an artifact. In-game stuff says that it's "an obsidian axe wielded by the mad Sankis as he turned on his own men inside their fortress. Even as he burned to death himself, he would not stop his attacks on those he had once ruled."
For those not familiar with the reference, Emperor Sankis the Beardless was once ruler of the mighty dwarven fortress known as Boatmurdered. He engraved the history of the fortress on its walls, and his fiery fists were what brought Boatmurdered down, the only survivor being some kid and the dwarven warrior Guerilla Burialgears. The story can be read on the web. It's an old DF let's play by some SA goons. A rather famous one.
This someone has added the "Burning Axe of Sankis" as an artifact. In-game stuff says that it's "an obsidian axe wielded by the mad Sankis as he turned on his own men inside their fortress. Even as he burned to death himself, he would not stop his attacks on those he had once ruled."
For those not familiar with the reference, Emperor Sankis the Beardless was once ruler of the mighty dwarven fortress known as Boatmurdered. He engraved the history of the fortress on its walls, and his fiery fists were what brought Boatmurdered down, the only survivor being some kid and the dwarven warrior Guerilla Burialgears. The story can be read on the web. It's an old DF let's play by some SA goons. A rather famous one.