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DDoS attack on Blizzard leads to more calls for a Diablo 4 offline mode (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 years ago by IowaMan to c/pcmasterrace

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[–] RoboticMask 79 points 2 years ago (15 children)

While I don't condone DDoS attacks, the only reason for D4 to be online-only is monetization IMO: Blizzard wants to sell cosmetics, so people have to see other people wearing them. There is little gameplay benefit from being an MMO-lite.

[–] IowaMan 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I came to the same conclusion as you: why would people buy their stuff if they could just run an unlocker script or edit a config file to give that stuff to them? It's basically malicious DRM

[–] query 22 points 2 years ago

All DRM is malicious, and DRM is why not to buy. Plenty of other games that you can buy and also own.

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