Diablo 3 to have always online DRM, cash shop, no mods at all, and kills puppies.

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Originally Posted by Azisien

2) Uh, of course Blizzard isn't supporting bots or mods. First is obvious, second is semantics. Most cooperative/competitive online game developers don't support rampant cheating. Bots have completely, utterly, without possibility of repair ruined Diablo 2. My stance for my sequel would be militant too. As for mods, they're taking about player-side mods I think, not a modding community. You know, map hacks, illegal macros, whatever else people can come up with to make them innately better at the game without a measure of skill. I mean, they probably aren't supporting a game editor like they do for StarCraft 2, and that is a shame, but hardly horrifying news.

The bots is understandable. The mods is reprehensible in a day and age where their best work is made by a fan. While not horrifying for you, it just seems to hit the Blizzard modding community in the nuts that they can't make their own maps or offshoot games, having to buy Starcraft II just for those tools.

3) This is an interesting experiment, if anything. First of all, pretty sure it's been twisted by the media from "may buy with real currency" to "must buy with real currency." The Blizzard explanation sounds like people that WANT to pay real money to twink their characters CAN, but you could always just earn your gear like most people will. For me, I could see myself buying that last piece of Tal Rasha set, instead of running Baal 200 more times and PRAYING that 0.01% item drops.

Really, this is Blizzard accepting the inevitable. They are not really "letting us" buy gear with real money. The Diablo 3 community would set that up with or without Blizzard's consent. This seems similar to legalizing marijuana, instead of trying to combat its sale. It's gonna happen, the question is, how hard are the people in charge going to try and senselessly fight it? I'm curious to see how this pans out.

It probably depends on the fee charged in house. I can see it not really being effective in stopping the heavy users from using other illicit sources. Maybe they have a reputation to uphold or something else. It's a neat concept, granted, but I dunno if Blizzard is really going to do well in this fashion.