I’m currently playing Diablo IV (and having a blast with it) but finding one small gripe which I only think is going to get worse and probably stop me playing it completely in the long run.

My girlfriend is currently pregnant. This means in 6 months time we’ll have a newborn. With this in mind I’m expecting to only be able to grab a few minutes at a time to game and even when I think I’ll have longer I may end up jumping off at short notice. This means I’ll almost certainly come to rely on games which I can pause. Unfortunately this isn’t possible with Diablo IV since it requires an always online connection even though I’m essentially playing it as a single player game.

What are other people’s thoughts?

  • honk@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    It obviously only bothers me for single player games. Sometimes my internet is down when I wanna play. There is no good reason for why I have to be online to play a single player game. Sometimes my internet is fine but the game servers are down. Or overloaded. Or the publisher just took them down permanently or whatever.

    I tried playing the beta for diablo 4 and the game had network lag. I know diablo 4 is technically a multiplayer game. But I always played diablo alone and I’m not interested in the multiplayer aspect. Sometimes I would get kicked from the server for whatever reason. That sucked. made me not buy the game.