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reddingofish
08/25/09

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I am confused. Is there a torrent of the game or something? I don't see anything about this game being released yet.
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nightshade71986
08/25/09

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"You can play in offline mode if you want - I just don't think you're going to want to. You'll be giving up lots and lots of features, and why would you want to be giving up features?"

Am I the only one that feels slightly creeped out by this statement? Sounds like something your neighbors would say if you live in a over perfect town where everyone has a smile all the time.
"You don't have to come to the X-mas party if you don't want to. But I just think you'll regret it.... You'll be missing out on lots of good food and X-mas singing. I also will be making eggnog, you don't want to miss my eggnog. :) "
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SacGamer
08/25/09

@nightshade71986: He's right. What's the point in playing a Blizzard game if you're not going to play online?
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Karlott
08/26/09

@SacGamer: As I've said repeatedly in so many Diablo/Blizzard threads, there's a very robust, deep, and fun community of single players in D2.
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KhaiJB
08/24/09

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I don't play online.. so why should I have a cut down game?

I'll be giving this a miss.
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Hardcore
08/24/09

@KhaiJB: Or alternative means of play. ;)
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KhaiJB
08/24/09

@Hardcore: ....what? what alternative?
I don't play online since I'm an antisocial bastard that hates getting his ass handed to him by some snotty nosed kid.

what did you mean?
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Teran
08/24/09

@KhaiJB: If you don't play online then you probably don't care about achievments... so what exactly is going on inside that head of yours if you think that missing achievments makes the game cut down?
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KhaiJB
08/24/09

@Teran: who said anything about achivements? all he said was "features" - what features? if they are achivements, I don't care. if it's gameplay features, I do care.
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TheOmnitron
08/24/09

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Why does everyone hate the internets all of a sudden? We all know that the internets makes ur games betterer. Its not like anybody whos going to play SCII doesnt have the internets. Everyone has the internets. ESPECIALLLY SCII nerds.

Chill out dooders, There can has lots of fun on the internets. Stop hating on the tubes, they needs u to live.
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ReconToaster misses garnett :(
08/24/09

@TheOmnitron:

The idea is that if you have a bunch of friends over for a LanParty, you don't want to have internet for all of them.
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-MasterDex-
08/24/09

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That's good to know anyway. Nice to see them clarify it.
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Taggart6 is Tiger Woods Mistress 342
08/24/09

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Why would I want to give up features?

Because I'm playing on a laptop where i can't get wi-fi you idiot.
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excel_excel
08/24/09

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And they're working on a LAN solution too?.....back to bitching about nothing again....
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Frogbot
08/24/09

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Great. What are we going to complain about on the internet now? :(
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cavalerie
08/24/09

@Frogbot: Errr how about no LAN support for SC2 ?
I for one am still pissed about that one.
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Kousetsu Kitsune
08/24/09

@cavalerie: It's a somewhat solution.

[www.joystiq.com]

"Blizzard tells Shacknews it's working on a "pseudo-LAN" solution to the problem, that might allow play very similar to a regular LAN party, with Battle.net only being pinged once or periodically for authentication purposes."
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Yossarian
08/24/09

@Frogbot: Can always go back to wailing about how this may not come out until summer 2012 :)

(Which, coincidentally is AFTER the end of the world according to the Mayans, so this could possibly be some huge government plot to keep placated and docile until then instead of complaining about how they aren't building huge underground vaults for all of us to hide in.)
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Frogbot
08/24/09

@Yossarian: I try not to think about the release date or I end up crying myself to sleep at night.
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deanbmmv
08/24/09

@Yossarian: Summer 2012 is a few months before the end of the Mayan calender (21, Dec, 2012)
And a few months before Abstergo get their hands on subject 17.
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iRaybot
08/24/09

@Yossarian: Nope, the end of the world according to the Mayans will actually be around the 21st December 2012, so we can have Starcraft for a good few months before imminent and certain death, every cloud...
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SpishackCola is your Brodie, Brotron, and Brodington!
08/24/09

@Frogbot:
Original Kerrigan VA not being chosen to come back for SC2? Really not a lot coming to mind right now since BlizzCon is over. Haven't heard anything from Activision or Valve in awhile. No random pretentious indie dev saying anything. Madden already came out, and Luke took care of the sports games in his post...
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Yossarian
08/24/09

@deanbmmv: @iRaybot: bah, get out of here with your facts... I'm spinning crazy conspiracies here, not real stories!
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deanbmmv
08/24/09

@Yossarian: Stories now....
(disclosure: Deanbmmv is the deputy-CEO of Vault-tec)
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Yossarian
08/24/09

@SpishackCola is The Black Squiggly!: The PS3 still sucks.
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Frogbot
08/24/09

@Yossarian: Is that really a complaint, or is it just something fun to say at a Sony press conference?
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Yossarian
08/24/09

@Frogbot: It just supports Kotaku by driving up page counts when PS3 users with small penises get enraged and endlessly visit this post to yell at me.
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Lemming
08/24/09

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"You don't technically have to (login), but you'll want to. You can play in offline mode if you want - I just don't think you're going to want to. You'll be giving up lots and lots of features, and why would you want to be giving up features?"

So you are punishing customers by turning off stuff just because the aren't logged in? Am I reading that right or just infering it?

The only 'feature' that should be off by playing offline is online-multiplayer.
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Yossarian
08/24/09

@Lemming: It's the new value added method to try to combat piracy.

A better solution than DRM...
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playstationpwns
08/24/09

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You would only want to play offline so you could pirate the game
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ReconToaster misses garnett :(
08/24/09

@playstationpwns:

Or, you know, if you want to take the game on a trip where you won't have access to the internet? I mean, are you serious? This is 2009. Wireless internet is still hard to find when you're on the go.

Not having to log in would also be great of LAN parties where you don't have the means to get everyone on the internet at the same time.

Seriously man.... think a bit.
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