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?

  • Recant@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Always online games really bug me. For someone like myself that goes out to sea for several weeks as part of my job, I won’t have connection during those time periods thus I can’t play the game I played.

    Additionally, if the company removes the servers that the game connects to once the game has been out for whatever they determine to be “long enough” the game becomes unplayable

    I haven’t seen an upside for always online games only downsides. Totally understand that games with an online multi-player component need that internet connection but there is no reason, that I have seen, that are single player games or have single player components need always online connection.