Within 48 hours the servers will be up 24/7, bar maintenance. Get over it. The only thing that sucks about it is not being able to play when your internet is down, but meh. For me that's like 2 hours every few months.ultimakid

how long have you been playing games? cause i can remember a time when you didnt have to be online to play games , and to say its to prevent piracy would also be a big load because its already been pirated on day 1. but as someone else has said not everyone has / can afford to pay for internet and some rarely find a need , but just need to play the game itself and not care about multiplayer. heck i know someone whos gotten CoD games for the single player only (im aware its CoD but still). so to make it required to play a game that is mostly single player online is a prime definition of bull c**p.

ive loved it , whenever servers were up , id give it a solid 8.0 myself , the constant downtime though def doesnt help =\

as far as ive been keeping in touch with peoples "theories" its an attempt to prevent piracy , though its also supposedly failed at that. but then again im not entirely sure though thats the only reason i can agree with that others have thought up.

I can fully understand having the Servers for Multiplay, however, we all did drop $60 and should be allowed to enjoy Diablo III in Single Player offline. Plus, as several people have already pointed out it would have made things easier on the Servers. When D2 first came out over a decade ago I played it in Single Player, only after I beat it did I decide to try Multiplayer; at least back then we had a choice. Blizzard made a really bad call by forcing everyone to play D3 online. Sure, there would have been some pirating, but Blizzard is still going to make a ton of money, just like they did with D1 & D2.

elburnso

you know whats EVEN funnier? for all there attempts to try to prevent pirating by making it online only , people have pirated it on day 1  , so not only did they fail at pirating theyre agitating those of us who dont pirate stuff suffer.