Josh Mosqueira has explained that Blizzard and Sony identified the “significant amount of consoles not connected to the internet” as their reasoning for including offline play in Diablo 3.
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.
Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.
Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.
Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.
Were you expecting Microsoft to hire everyone that had left Blizzard long before they purchased the company...
Microsoft has let the Blizzard company they purchased continue to be the Blizzard company they purchased.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
title is completely inaccurate
Why does it take a significant amount of consoles not connected to the internet for developers to know that not everyone wants to be connected 24/7? If the game has a single player option then allow offline play. Not everyone wants to be connected, especially with the amount of idiots online.
"Mosqueria may be talking solely about Diablo in this particular instance, but Microsoft would do well to take heed of such observations. The console platform is on a shaky nail as it is, the unnecessarily isolation of any group may prove a very risky move."
Do you think he's referring to their Kinect/casual/entertainment focus with that shaky nail remark?
What is up with this story? Anti MSFT S.D.F are worse this coming generation than the last, now that MSFT proved to be a force.
-Attacking 720/MSFT because PS4 rumors before the Sony PS4 reveal seemed like an attack Play Station.(rumors turned on MSFT because of Sony's DRM patent etc)
-Making up rumors and calling them facts, giving Sony the benefit of the doubt with the rumors before the PS4 reveal. Yet these same people claim MSFT's are set in stone claiming it's too late for MSFT even though Sony had different specs for PS4 just weeks ago(litterally days before the PS4 reveal)
-Trying to provoke other media in writing articles about fictional topics, baiting the other oulets with traffic caused by nervous Sony fans.
-Now! editing news and changing info/facts/truth out of nervous desperation due to haters no longer believing their own delusions
*Always connected* is a feature that allows the box to use the new auto update features never signing out the user so the xbox can use remote access/control features(smartglass/PC etc)
*Always on* is a full standard now and not like the 360's optional and limited version of this feature(background downloads when the console is almost off in the 360's case)
^^his allows control of the console in any power state. The console can be controlled in STANDBY MODE/POWERED ON with Kinect and other remote devices. You need both these features to use the features the way that is intended.
Kinect always being on(waiting for input/comands) is a function of the device(Kinect 2) having full control of the hardware and OS no matter the power state or location of the user on the console operating system(in any game even non kinect ones, any app, service/feature etc).
Not hard to grasp.
"significant amount of consoles not connected to the internet" then where is the native backward compatibility for the PS4 because Gaikai wouldn't work on a significant amount of consoles not connected to the internet. so they are going to pick and choose who they alienate.
I see double standards, and smell BS.
all in all I'm going to buy Diablo 3, because I owned it for PC and couldn't play it because of an internet connection, so I will buy it for consoles so I can at least enjoy a game I bought.