That's not unbreakable, not even close. Although they will be making a whole new version of battle.net that'll go live when Starcraft 2 ships and Diablo 3 will use this also.
Diablo 3 - Confirmed in Paris
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zakhal
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Can you play without valid cd key in battle.net? Diablo is client-server based:
Client-server based code is one of the best DRMs.
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Most definitely.
Diablo was a great (if short) single player experience. D2 didn't have any of the atmosphere in the single-player game that made Diablo enjoyable. It felt like you were just playing a MMORPG in off-line mode.
zakhal
SasqWatch
Som say the keygens still work but only in singleplayer:
Often accounts are lost to viruses too (keyloggers/filesearchers) - it happens so much in wow that they made a security dongle for the game.
EDIT: I found some more (from finnish site though)
It says that diablo2 populary shows also in sales numbers because playing in battle.net has been made impossible (or atleast very hard) without original key.
But even if you do manage to get a valid key (perhaps small % of the gen keys are valid), piracy in diablo2 is truly stealing - you are stealing somone elses key. Also its very personal since you have to share the account with person you stole it from. Might not be fun for either party especially when they both can delete each others characters.
Som players tried to even make their own copy of battle.net but failed:
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Well I solved my problem back then by simply login and leave the game running so the other person couldn't use my key and obviously gave up. Maybe I should re-install and see if big bob still uses my key.
if anyone is interested, downloadable gameplay videos are available at :
http://uk.media.pc.gamespy.com/media/714/714955/vids_1.html
they are the same ones as on the D3 site, but if you d/l the higher res ones, you can play it as a bigger vid in media player, and you can see much more detail...
hope this is useful..
Plater
http://uk.media.pc.gamespy.com/media/714/714955/vids_1.html
they are the same ones as on the D3 site, but if you d/l the higher res ones, you can play it as a bigger vid in media player, and you can see much more detail...
hope this is useful..
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It's actually the other way around.
What, really? Are you serious?
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Of course. Diablo is the father of hack&slash action rpgs. Every other one is pretty much a clone of Diablo.
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I guess that the "Guest"'s reply was meant to be ironically. Which you seemingly didn't catch.
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Wow. Couldn't disagree more. With the possible exception of Diablo 1's Tristram compared to the towns in Diablo 2, I thought 2 greatly improved on top of the original atmosphere. Admittedly, it wasn't all perfect and there were missteps, such as dragging out Act II and Act III too long as to spoil the atmosphere with too much repetition. But I'd be interested to hear how Diablo 2 could possibly have been a step backwards in atmosphere. That just does not compute with me at all.
I'd have to agree, from a graphics style perspective. Seems they went after the same, soft, rounded edges, light colors look. When I first saw the screenshot of the goatmen, I thought, "looks like they copy and pasted from Titan Quest's assets".
Maybe because it was. D2 just didn't bring anything new to the table in terms of atmosphere, especially for a game that was released 3 years later than it's predecessor.
The single biggest complaint for most people, myself included, was the ridiculous manner in which all monsters (even bosses!) respawned everytime you loaded a saved game. That was a huge immersion breaker for a lot of people, and was a terrible decision on the part of Blizzard to do that.
skavenhorde
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Who are these people? I've never heard that before. You're saying you didn't enjoy doing mephyrunzs for the 1000 time?
I didn't play it for the immersion, I played it to make the uber character. If you want immersion play Bloodlines, if you want a fun action game with tons of loot and skills, then Diablo is your game.
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Well, the level of "fun" certainly varies from person to person. Although I did enjoy the first Diablo to a degree.
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I really liked Diablo 2. Heck, I completed it at least once with every character. However, I only play single player and I also found it "strange" to put it mildly that the only way to save was to quit the game and once you did, everything had respawned when you started it again.
I solved the problem by playing each act in one go, leaving the computer turned on overnight. Once I had completed it with a couple of characters I stopped worrying about it and just played from teleport-stone to teleport-stone.
It was obvious that Diablo2 was designed to proved the same game to both singleplayer crowd as well as the multiplayer crowd and, in my opinion, the advantages of the improvements upon the original Diablo far outweighed the disadvantages of reduced saving abilities and respawning.
So even though I really REALLY liked Diablo 2, I'm one of those people you've never heard of skavenhorde
I solved the problem by playing each act in one go, leaving the computer turned on overnight. Once I had completed it with a couple of characters I stopped worrying about it and just played from teleport-stone to teleport-stone.
It was obvious that Diablo2 was designed to proved the same game to both singleplayer crowd as well as the multiplayer crowd and, in my opinion, the advantages of the improvements upon the original Diablo far outweighed the disadvantages of reduced saving abilities and respawning.
So even though I really REALLY liked Diablo 2, I'm one of those people you've never heard of skavenhorde
Me, for example.
It's just ... unlogical.
Yes, that's what I'd call "Powergaminung", or "Munchkin", to use the pother term.
The sad thing is that millions of people have "learned" by now that "role-playing" is nothing but that.
So much for the future of the RPG genre ...
Diablo has never claimed to be anything other than an action RPG. You take on the role of a hero in a class of your choice and save the world by doing quests and vanquishing monsters.
The fact that you have class and ability choices doesn't take anything away from it being an action RPG in my book. If you want non-action RPGs you can always go and play Dungeon Lords 2
The fact that you have class and ability choices doesn't take anything away from it being an action RPG in my book. If you want non-action RPGs you can always go and play Dungeon Lords 2
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