Technology

Any company that treats creativity as cheating does not make games I care to play.

Can they just give us an offline version and let us do whatever we want on it?

Then make more than 4 enemy types.

How dare people try to mod a game they bought? What a sad state of affairs, Diablo 2 had such awesome mods.

Is every major tech company a tyrannical bitch that hates their customers?

Yes.

I was considering giving a Diablo game a shot for the first time, not anymore, this is just dumb

Good Old Games FOR LIFE !

All the cool guys love GOG.

Can you imagine if the Spalding company told you that they'd come and take their balls back if you didn't play according to their rules?

They're trash at making games so they should let others make the game for them. This is a dumb decision.

They also recently admitted to loading other players entire profile including their stash, and other content that they "have" which you would have zero access to, into memory on your PC, anytime that user loads into your zone.

It's why you can't have more than four stash tabs, because other people's computers would be negatively affected.

My developer friend tersely summarized this as "lazy programming". To put it as briefly as I can, in his view, it's likely that all of your stuff including inventory and stash are all part of your character object/class/whatever, so to load other players, your client has to load that character object, complete with everything they're carrying and everything that they have in their stash.

IMO, this means you can mod the game to dump a list of everything another player is carrying/holding in their stash.

Seems like they have minimal, if any, separation between clients, other clients, and by proxy, their servers. So rules need to be enforced at the client level, so the other users and the servers can stay protected.

Fuck Blizzard. Stop buying their games.

Blizzard is another user hostile game company.

I feel like people are acting a little TOO hurt in this thread... debate on games being moddable vs not aside, this was obviously always going to be the case for a live service game like D4. D3 was (but wasn't really) a live service game and also was not moddable at all, even after the auction house got canned. Same for Overwatch 1, I'm quite sure OW2 as well. There should be no surprise here, and cheaters absolutely knew this would come.

that's close minded. "you are only allowed to enjoy the game exactly as we intended it to be played"

And I didn't even need any more reasons to not get this game!

Diablo was dead after Diablo 2. Resurrected was pretty good but I really dislike the always online BS. And at the end of the day, it's still the same old game with a facelift. Recently started playing Diablo 3 again and I realize why I never really got into it. It's more like gauntlet than Diablo.

I can't speak for Acti-Blizz but Ubisoft regarded people finding and using exploits or even power imbalances as cheating and a banhammering offense if they got too much loot for their efforts.

Finding the exploits is part of the whole point.

Are they trying to nuke their game and community? Cause at this point, you gotta wonder if it's intentional.

permanent account ban

Don't threaten me with a good time Blizz.

biggest misbuy of this year...damn my friends who wanted to play this, because it is boring, soulless and lame as fuck.

my screensaver is more challenging than this ...

Modding (as long as it's not hacker modding in like RDR2) makes the game personalized and so much more fun.

I wanted to play Diablo but Blizzard support hasn't taken off the keyfob authenticator off my account, despite repeated requests. So I guess I don't get to play anyway. Now I really feel like I'm not missing out on anything.