Speaking as an Ubuntu user, I am well aware that the community sees any sort of opportunity to lay claim to oppressed minority status and sprints for it, even when said claims are stupid. Still…as much as it kills me to say this…Linux users are probably right and Blizzard is screwing up Diablo III. Again.
At issue are people playing the game via WINE, the open-source Windows emulator popular on Linux. Scraping away the crap (and whining about how they’re oppressed) on the Battle.Net thread, what it seems to boil down to is that anybody running unsupported hardware or software will either be mistaken for a cheater or booted off the system whenever Blizzard runs a system survey. Others note the exact same thing happened to World of Warcraft a while back and Blizzard issued a mass apology and unban.
This is just yet another in what has been a truly disastrous launch for a modern video game. First it was server crashes constantly when the game was first released, then it was the patch that broke the XP meter and set all your companions back to level 13, immediately followed by restrictions put on players who bought a digital copy and now this. I don’t even play the game and I think this is ridiculous.
Some seem to think that we should just put up with this, but you know what? We shouldn’t. Most of this is triggered not by basic screw-ups but because of Blizzard’s own restrictions. If a game is not an MMO, it does not need to be constantly online. If a feature like the real money auction house has you that scared of fraud, then you never should have implemented it.
So, Blizzard, unbork Diablo III. Remove the always online requirement. Remove the real-money auction house. And let people just play the damn game.
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I have no complaints about the game. I can understand the points of view that voice concerns about various aspects of the game, but none of the points listed in this post affect me, really. I use windows (*gasp*!), bought the game when it came out, and like the auction house for the most part (I don’t intend to get into real-money auctions, but if other people want to, fine by me)
And I like solo player on-line gameplay. It’s fun to solo, mostly because I don’t like the random headaches that come with random, unknown players joining my game. However, it’s nice to have my friends join my game in progress at a whim, rather than reloging when they come on-line and want to play.
No complaints? Really? I’m not a hater and I think of a lot of the people who are just get swept up in the mob, but there are fundamental flaws in the games design, and at the root of the games problems are the RMAH and the always online requirement. 2 things that aren’t necessary but were put in place as a control by blizzard. Both have had a negative impact on the game.
Really. Yes. You read correct. I don’t use the RMAH, so I don’t care about it one way or the other, and the always on-line requirement rarely impacts my play-life.
Do all the complaints about the RMAH not take in to account that a large grey-market grew around Diablo 2 where people traded real life money for in-game items? And being grey market there was a lot of scamming out there.
The RMAH is simply Blizzard implementing a safe and secure method for people to do what they already did without the risk of getting scammed.
Not to sound incredibly mean or anything, but if you feel the need to spend money on a piece of digital equipment that has no impact on your life what-so-ever, you deserve to get scammed
The entire point is that Blizzard never really sold Diablo 3, they fucking LEASED it.
They have actively pursued any possible means to undermine basic consumer rights under the guise of preventing piracy. That’s reality folks.
Too bad for them the EU just ruled that digitally downloaded games are no different from mp3′s and the people that PURCHASED them get to RE-SELL them as used.
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Sounds like you never have read any EULA before. You’d be amazed at what you can’t do with software you paid for.
The only one I’ve ever tried to actually read is the I-Tunes one and I really enjoyed the clause where I “agree” to “not use any content in the fashioning of nuclear devices”