Diablo 4 Fans Once Again Call for Offline Mode After DDoS Attack Renders Game Unplayable for Hours

3 years ago by simple to c/games

Blizzard spent much of Sunday battling a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that rendered Diablo 4 and other Battle.net games unplayable for hours. Now, players are once again calling for an offline mode.

Don't you just love online-only games with shaky servers? The same exact thing happened with Diablo 3's launch.

Zebov 30 points 3 years ago

Until people quit buying them, they're not going away.

Matter of fact, they probably never will go away anyways because the company gets too much benefit and can scapegoat something else.

Sure makes it easy to get away from gaming though, so maybe it's not all bad.

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cwagner 24 points 3 years ago

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Spiritreader 3 points 3 years ago

Unfortunately Diablo being always online and unstable has been present since Diablo 3.

That launch was an absolute catastrophe as well.

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cwagner 2 points 3 years ago

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ClassyHatter 18 points 3 years ago

Isn't it so that if you play hardcore mode (your character dies permanently), and you disconnect for any reason, your character is considered dead? Online only requirement goes really well for that kind of game mode, where it might be the server that falls offline, and not your PC...

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simple 19 points 3 years ago

Yup... And it's already happened: https://www.pcgamesn.com/...

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Derproid 4 points 3 years ago

Imagine having that happen to you and somehow having the willpower to do it again. The dark side of playing games for a living.

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LizardKing 16 points 3 years ago

Anyone who bought this game expecting anything less than this exact shitshow deserves their fate.

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MemoreeLanee 15 points 3 years ago

cannot wait until this gets cracked so we can all play it offline

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woelkchen 3 points 3 years ago

You mean like THPS1+2?

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weirdo_from_space 12 points 3 years ago

They didn't get offline mode last time and they are not getting it now.

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Call_Me_Maple 10 points 3 years ago

Oh no... Anyway.

Honestly, after how successful Diablo Immoral was I'm not surprised that fans would buy this and play it (specifically on hardcore mode). They're too far gone, and it's too big to fail. They could announce phone number verification requirements and D4 would still have a healthy player base.

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Bronzie 6 points 3 years ago

I stopped buying games from Blizzard and EA out of principle.
I'm just sick of being considered part of the product instead of the end-user.

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Montagge 3 points 3 years ago

Gamers mad they financially support systems they don't like.

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toxicbubble 1 point 3 years ago

lol

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