Are people whining about Diablo III? Throwing piddly little temper tantrums? Should they shut up, stop complaining, and be glad of getting a great game? Should gratitude, not contempt, be the order of the day? Are you entitled to your grievance, or are you just "acting" entitled? There's only one answer, and only one man to provide it. Jim Sterling, yet again, solves all.
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5:00 PM on 05.21.2012 | 
But they chose to embrace the RMT auction house..... because money.
People have every right to be pissed off if they can't play the game they purchased through no fault of their own.
This has been known for a while, and it's exactly why I'm not buying the game (DRM over actually giving me what I expect for my money, no thanks, I'll play something else).
Anyways, good video Jim, I agree wholeheartedly.
There are definitely times where someone may lack reasons for wanting a particular right or where someone is expecting unreasonable rights, but expecting to play a game when you buy it does not seem like such a crazy thought. Do we really want to catalog this as just gamers being whiny? To that I say, hell no.
As always Jim, very good video. Great discussion.
@JoeTheProYaKnow
Blizzard did a pretty good CYA on their TOS, stating that you've purchased a license, not the software, and that they don't guarantee 100 percent uptime for their servers. In effect, they've tried to take away a consumer's entitlement to complain by stating they don't actually own the game and the servers won't work all the time, so fuck you.
For some reason slapping the consumer in the face and immediately devaluing the sixty dollar game they just purchased isn't working out for them. Who knew?
Carry on complaining and being right, don't mean to interrupt all that. Just saiyan.
there have been rough times, but honestly right now i can't remember the last time i didn't agree with, or at least understand, your viewpoint sir.
also, one of about 3 SMUG people on the planet i can stand...
Usually reserved for idiots and rich snobs.
Y'see, the people acting like spoiled brats over ANYTHING that goes wrong give those of us who try to complain constructively about things a bad wrap. The loud-mouthed idiots out there make it seem like you can't complain about something without being an obnoxious asshole about it, and being an obnoxious asshole tends to get you ignored. It's a case of the boy who cried wolf, and that boy needs to be told to shut up because some of us are crying about actual wolves.
A question, though: Why is a queue time or a shitty server any more acceptable in an MMO?
Im pretty upset :D
One day? I'm hearing rumblings that D3 is getting hacked to shit. There is speculation of SessionID spoofing. Resulting in people logging in and having no gear and or gold. From the sound of it the EU servers went offline for "maintenance" conspicuously around the time people started flipping out about it.
Course I don't play D3 so I only hear what I hear could just be all scuttlebutt but it seems to be consistent scuttlebutt.
I seem to be one of the more unlucky ones in terms of random errors and lag. And yet I get attacked and talked down to constantly if I make any noise about it.
I love the game and would very much like to play it.
There were absolutely positively problems on the 2nd and 3rd days for me personally, and beyond that for other players all over.
Besides, one day is one day too many.
Additionally, I know you're not reviewing Diablo III for Destructoid, and I also know that you don't take business practices into account for your reviews, but IF you were in charge of this game's review, would the always-on component and the server issues affect your final result?
Yeah it is pretty bad, I don't care for either myself. I care for online DRM less however and have been boycotting games that have it for years now. Blizzard is no exception.