DDoS attack causes paying Diablo 4 customers to lose access to the game they paid for for up to 12 hours:
DDoS attack on Blizzard leads to more calls for a Diablo 4 offline mode
On Sunday morning, Blizzard tweeted that it was actively monitoring an ongoing DDoS attack that was affecting latency and connections to its games.www.techspot.com
This is what happens when games are a "service". No such problems with classic Blizzard games because they don't touch Battlenet.
You can't reasonably expect all of those issues to be 100% solved without issue.Which "classic" Blizzard games are we talking about here? The entire Diablo franchise since Diablo 2 has had a battle.net element associated with it. Diablo was ruined constantly by cheaters, and Diablo 2 went a long way to stopping the most obvious character editor cheats if you chose to play on one of their online realms. The downside being that if the realm was down then you couldn't play that character, and that if you chose to play offline then you were siloed off in your own little world where you would never encounter anyone else except maybe friends on your local LAN (or you could use a service like Kali lol).
Yeah it's nice to have offline mode until you realize that all your offline progress can't be mirrored online where your friends or your clan play.
People act like Diablo was so much better for its offline play, since you could pop online with any character you wanted, but the consequence was that you had to deal with other people doing the same thing (with cheated characters), plus the awful townkill hacks and invulnerable players etc.
I never said there was one. It's just that it's unreasonable to excoriate Blizzard for having online-only play for a Diablo game when the alternative is so potentially awful ("open" battle.net was a mess).I'm not really sure what kind of solution you have in mind that allows fully safe, unmodifiable character files but also allows offline and online play without any of these vulnerabilities?
All of them.Which "classic" Blizzard games are we talking about here?
We already went over this a few pages back when you failed to produce a single example of a pre-steam game requiring mandatory auto patching for offline single player.The entire Diablo franchise since Diablo 2 has had a battle.net element associated with it.
Completely irrelevant to offline single player and LAN.Diablo was ruined constantly by cheaters, and Diablo 2 went a long way to stopping the most obvious character editor cheats if you chose to play on one of their online realms. The downside being that if the realm was down then you couldn't play that character, and that if you chose to play offline then you were siloed off in your own little world where you would never encounter anyone else except maybe friends on your local LAN (or you could use a service like Kali lol).
Yeah it's nice to have offline mode until you realize that all your offline progress can't be mirrored online where your friends or your clan play.
People act like Diablo was so much better for its offline play, since you could pop online with any character you wanted, but the consequence was that you had to deal with other people doing the same thing (with cheated characters), plus the awful townkill hacks and invulnerable players etc.
[/QUOTE]We already went over this a few pages back when you failed to produce a single example of a pre-steam game requiring mandatory auto patching for offline single player.
Again, I've never had a Battlenet account or ever logged onto it, yet all classic Blizzard games were playable offline or LAN.
Again, list them. You've still failed to list any offline single player game that required mandatory auto-patching prior to Steam.Your idea of failure is warped.
The only thing we "covered" is you failing to list a single game. Not even one.Yeah we already covered that.
A wall of irrevelant rambling with nothing to do with offline single player, which "games as a service" actively prevent.It's a mixed bag. Offline play is great and all until you want to play with your friends who live a few states over and can't come by for a LAN party. I remember what Diablo online was like, and it was pretty bad once the cheaters took over the game.
Anyway, it was a DDoS attack that shut down Blizzard's authentication servers. All their battle.net titles were generally unavailable.
They say they already can track installs, but yes it is illegal in the EU, Australia & the UK. The retroactive changes to licensing is also going to cause Unity legal issues.Stupid question: is this whole Unity thing and their "per install tax" even legal in European Union?
If not, i'd like to see Unity go ahead with their plans AND THEN get sued "out of existence": that would teach Unity's competitors (and whatever other companies thinking about something similar) what NOT TO ATTEMPT later ...
And while the European Union is @ it, take steps to prevent whatever telemetry Unity uses to check how many installs the game has had, AND BLOCK ANY COMPANY (game company or no) from using them.
Seems like its more to do with cracking down on cheating. Add ons need to be from a license 3rd party/Considering Microsoft is in a distant third place this console gen, sort of a weird move on their part to alienate more players...
Microsoft now blocks "unauthorized" controllers on XBox. You don't own the console, it's a "service", yo!
Microsoft Bans Unofficial Game Controllers And Accessories On Xbox Console
Much to the dismay of gamers who own certain third-party controllers and peripherals, Microsoft has begun actively blocking unauthorized accessories on its Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S game consoles.hothardware.com
Sucks for the small companies that were just getting used to seeing some money and then BAM! Microsoft says pay them the license tax or get out of the Xbox accessory market. It almost feels like a trap. Should have blocked from the start. It's like some intern told the executives, hey, I'm seeing a LOT of unlicensed accessories connected to Xbox across the world so maybe we should monetize? Intern hired for a permanent position!Microsoft now blocks "unauthorized" controllers on XBox. You don't own the console, it's a "service", yo!
They need to be licensed by Microsoft. Pretty poor business plan to not become licensed to do so.Sucks for the small companies that were just getting used to seeing some money and then BAM! Microsoft says pay them the license tax or get out of the Xbox accessory market. It almost feels like a trap. Should have blocked from the start. It's like some intern told the executives, hey, I'm seeing a LOT of unlicensed accessories connected to Xbox across the world so maybe we should monetize? Intern hired for a permanent position!
Doesn't seem to stop Xim or Chronus cheaters at all.Seems like its more to do with cracking down on cheating. Add ons need to be from a license 3rd party/
Regardless I do not see being required to make and be licenses by Microsoft as a big hurdle for a manufacturerDoesn't seem to stop Xim or Chronus cheaters at all.