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Well, it would be possible, but it would be slower, clunkier, more prone to errors, etc. As soon as you store some data locally, you have to do a lot of sanity
by mrsebastian 14y ago
Well, it would be possible, but it would be slower, clunkier, more prone to errors, etc.
As soon as you store some data locally, you have to do a lot of sanity checking, and synchronisation is a pain, and so on.
Personally I think you should have the option of making an 'always offline' character, with no access to the AH, but I think that would involve Blizzard putting too much data on the client side -- which it obviously doesn't want to do.
- jiggy2011 14y agoWhy would it be clunkier and more error prone? I remember back in 2000 using gamespy to see which games my friends were in and join them with a single double-click, pretty much friction free. I don't see why being able to hex edit is necessarily a problem, if I want to play through the game with a fully decked out character why couldn't I?
- debacle 14y agoBlizzard's motivations were purely for profit, and have very little to do with the user's best interests. Always-on DRM will never be a good idea.