I probably would not even care for RMAH, since I never ever bought anything in MMO for RC, but what bugs me the hell out of it, is just WHY do I have to be perma-connected to bnet to play a SOLO game???
Ok fine I understand, Bliz wants to store your chars in their Db to prevent cheating and char hacking, but guys - Diablo is not a MMO! Yes it can be played with small company of friends, but mostly its a SOLO game, and I don't understand why would Bliz even care if I hack or cheated my very own SOLO game???
Not like I ever did so, but still. In D2 there were open Bnet realms and closed realms, where chars were stored online - why not do the same things? People who WANTS to be secure - play on closed realms, and people who only connect to bnet to fool around with their hacked/cheated chars/gear can log onto open realms (not like I ever even used bnet for D2 - I always played with my friend over direct IP hosting)
Don't get me wrong, I live in 21st century too, I have fiber-optic internet which is on 24/7, so yeah I wouldn't have a problem with a connection or anything. But for argument sake, I go on vacation to a forest camp, and take my laptop with me - why the heck why I can't play a SOLO game without internet connection where I like???
So Bliz goes through this tremendous headache, to achieve what?
We can't play on LAN anymore
We can't host games over IP
We can't even play our own game SOLO for god sake without internet connection!
As someone on gucomics forums said : "Next thing you know, you will need internet to play solitaire"
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