I believe that one of the reason for the online play is to make sure there is no item duping, character hacking and other kind of cheats going on.  All the data will be saved in server side and all items will be coded.

Else the Auction House will be useless where all the hacked items will pop out and sold for real money.

The game also made for the gamers where internet is easily available and stable, such as US, EU, AU, NZ, S.Korea etc.  Maybe only few countries like us still worrying frequent internet breakdown.

Maybe going back to the game mode where offline mode will be single player without access to AH.  Maybe with extra LAN function?

But with most of the game contents generated from server side, maybe it is slightly difficult to pirate the game.  Build own private server?

Trying out my luck here. Just wondering if anyone got an extra ID for Diablo 3 beta? Wanted to try it out while waiting for it to release. Would appreciate a lot.

game is next month guys..playing the beta now will only spoil the game for you.

i think authorized retailer, some of them are giving out steelseries qck diablo3 mousepad with the purchase.

btw, those getting ce, can you really wait 1week++ for that?