Diablo 3 released on May 15th...

[aris13]

You should take that as a sign to stay away from it.

[Darkmoon]

Yeah, it really didn't help my whole, 'Well, I'm worried being forced to be online the whole time is going to fuck me over' issues.

[Wrathborne]

http://i.imgur.com/UQHpU.png
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Australian Diablo 3 fans just got royally fucked...

[Wrathborne]

http://kotaku.com/5910302/blizzard-s...ium=socialflow
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Blizzard to the Australian fans rescue!

[TheSelfishGene]

Level 21 Barbarian.
Level 8 Hardcore Witch Doctor.

Also saw this which I thought was pretty awesome.

http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/com...-diablo-widows

[Dracarys]

http://kotaku.com/5910302/blizzard-s...ium=socialflow
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Blizzard to the Australian fans rescue!

Actually really decent of them. I cannot run this game as much as I want to play it, sank countless hours into LoD.

All hope on a console port.

[Darkmoon]

Has it gotten to a point where you can start the game and actually expect to play rather than seeing server error messages yet?

[Dracarys]

Oh dear

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...d-items-stolen

I question why anyone would even buy an account so soon after the games release. Crappy thing to do in general but so soon after release...not much to benefit from already.

[Darkmoon]

...wait, wasn't the whole fucking point of having it permanently online so people couldn't pull stunts like this?

[Wrathborne]

Trail and error security :/

[Pikminister]

...wait, wasn't the whole fucking point of having it permanently online so people couldn't pull stunts like this?

Its the future... get used to it.

[Wrathborne]

http://kotaku.com/5912744/how-diablo...-a-better-game

Here ya go Darkmoon..come..conform...just like...the rest of us.*zombie walks towards ye*

[Darkmoon]

As far as I can tell, that guy's basically saying, 'It's better to be online because then you only have one save slot.'

If this is the future of gaming, it'll mean me buying even fewer games new. Although someone told me I can't buy Diablo III second hand? That each copy gets registered to a battlenet account and cannot be used again or something? Still, nothing stopping me from waiting until it's dropped in price and buying it then...when the servers actually work.

[TheSelfishGene]

I was able to log in fine first try; about 2 hours after the servers went live. I didn't experience anything like what I read in the media.
Australians play on the US servers, so it's been a bit laggy for me - I've lost a couple of hardcore characters to lag already. Will start HC again when the servers are more settled, and bugs and imbalances have been patched

[Dracarys]