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What are peoples thoughts on games requiring always online? How does it affect your enjoyment of those games? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Parellius@lemmy.world to c/gaming

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I'm currently playing Diablo IV (and having a blast with it) but finding one small gripe which I only think is going to get worse and probably stop me playing it completely in the long run.

My girlfriend is currently pregnant. This means in 6 months time we'll have a newborn. With this in mind I'm expecting to only be able to grab a few minutes at a time to game and even when I think I'll have longer I may end up jumping off at short notice. This means I'll almost certainly come to rely on games which I can pause. Unfortunately this isn't possible with Diablo IV since it requires an always online connection even though I'm essentially playing it as a single player game.

What are other people's thoughts?

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[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don't find it much of an issue in 2023. In the seven years I've lived in my current flat, I think there's been maybe an hour where my internet has gone down.

I do see the issue with games that have no online elements but still require a server but D4 is a kind of psuedo-MMO with it's world elements like world events, bosses, etc so it makes sense there.

[–] NightSicarius@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. It's rare that my Internet goes down, I don't play games while travelling, and Blizzard have kept their previous game servers online since they were released. So I don't really find much to complain about except on occasions where the servers go down for patching or whatever, but I'm used to that from playing every other online game.