• loaf
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    121 year ago

    I know it was designed to be online-only, but stuff like this really makes me wish it had offline play.

    • [email protected]A
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      71 year ago

      DDoS or not, servers being down when you want to play has been happening since way back.
      There would be whole maintenance days where nothing would work.
      It kinda sucks when you have a day off of work and intended to play one of their games. Error 33.

      • baker
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        71 year ago

        The fact that this is the most-reported item about D4 that I’ve seen is kind of blowing my mind. Blizz was never not going to make D4 online-only, but the fact that in 12 years they haven’t sorted this out is astonishing to me — deliberately walling off your product from anyone without an uninterrupted connection, and then failing to actually guarantee a connection to those who pony up.

        I guess the lure of multiplayer brings in enough paying customers that it’s not a dealbreaker for Blizz, but I don’t know why I’d play it when Grim Dawn (hell, and D2 Resurrected) exist.

        • [email protected]A
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          61 year ago

          Yea, I have little incentive to play D4.
          I quite liked D2 back in they day, even D1 and Hellifire were pretty sweet way back when.
          D3 was a shitshow at launch.
          Couldn’t reliably login for days.
          The real money auction house was am absolutely terrible idea that incentivized The game itself eventually became OK, there are other options.
          I’ll say, the best thing I’ve seen about D4 was a pic from Times Square when it was all orange because of the forest fires up north.

          Still have many other games to play in my library though

  • Human Crayon
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    91 year ago

    Back in vanilla we didn’t call them DDoS attacks. We called them “patch days.”

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    This is probably organised crime, like a digital version of a protection racket, demanding money or the DDOS will continue.

    Hopefully, they find the people responsible.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      It’s most likely some butthurt script kiddie who paid for access to a botnet. Not even lizardsquad was that “organized”.