you are right in that - to think that they would give a damn for example if everyone in msia & singapore were not to buy their games and just switch to piracy. they would say who cares?? US, Japan, Korea, HK is where their main market is.

Very true - they don't learn. Look at witcher 2, did you guys know the devs actually removed the DRM because they felt the DRM slowed the game? I think thats a noble move and its one way ppl to respect them. I bought witcher 2 on day 1 and i am very glad i am a legit owner of witcher 2

Actually seriously i know many guys out there don't freaking care much if D3 were to go online-only to play.

HOWEVER - would you guys even realize

1. Playing D3 halfway .. and your internet connection drops... would your game just hang? stop and restart u at the last checkpoint ?? What happen u just saw an AWESOME drop u can sell in auction house on the floor... and u gonna walk over it to pick it up... but that very instance.. our so called reliable STREAMYX connection drops... so what ?

2. And what happen if let say most guys out there are using an internet connection which shared among a few people in a dorm or by few people living within the same roof... someone just torrent a whole bunch of stuff while halfway you are playing D3 SOLO.. should that affect your SOLO experience to be laggy ?? If they would have introduced offline mode.. i guess like SC2.. your game experience won't be affected ...

3. For god sake... even if we have constant internet connection doesn't mean you your connection isn't BLOCKED on certain ports.. maybe for some people who u know joined a wifi hotspot or something... they might only open PORT 80 for you to browse web. That means... those internet connection can't let u play D3. YOU NEED A NICE CLEAN OPENED Internet connection like personal streamyx or unify line to play D3. So in another words. you are only restricted to play D3 just like how u would play MMORG right at home. Even though.. with D2 or SC2 i could play it anywhere in a game capable laptop hardware.

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This post has been edited by Remedy: Sep 7 2011, 10:59 PM

thanks - first time posting youtube and figured out that don't have to post the whole youtube link, just the video code

An update from fansite:

A member from the Diablo 3 community asked “Why is blizzard so against open testing” and lucky for him, he got a direct answer from community manager Zarhym explaining why.

Zarhym:

1. Start with a small sample audience to test stability
2. Take bug and crash report feedback; act on them quickly
3. Release new patches to make some very necessary changes in the small test environment
4. Keep testing stability while adding new battle.net/infrastructure components
5. If everything is running incredibly smooth after steps 1-4, invite people from the general public to open the flood gates on stress testing and get focused gameplay feedback/bug reports

This is a very layman’s description, but the point is we have to slowly throttle in more people to test the game as we continue to create new builds and work out new battle.net functionality. Once the environment is stable and many of the core features are there, we then start to invite the masses.

I’d feel remiss in not mentioning this: we absolutely want everyone to play this game as soon as possible. But to make that a reality, we must first excel in both content and deliverance. (So let’s put on our classics and we’ll have a little dance, shall we?)

After that answer, another member asked if we’re on step four and his answer was…

Zarhym: Basically, yea. We’re getting really close! That’s the good news.

We’re getting very close guys. Only a matter of time. Many are speculating tomorrow since Blizzard deploys their patches and maintenance on their games on that specific day. Another sign of beta, let’s just hope it starts this week.