Well it would company like Blizzard like 100 bucks to add streaming SP-only character from hard drive as offline only mode. There's no excuse whatsoever for them to not include it. I won't be buying it for an entirely different reason thou: Their games kinda suck lately :D

I probably should have been more clear about that. Esports are all well and good, but they should have spent a lot more time on the singleplayer, for a franchise that hadn't had a new game in that many years it was a serious let down to get a rehashing of the previous installment with less excitement.

There's a fair number of folks out there that don't want to play multiplayer with random people online and Blizzard lost most of those sales by not providing a good singleplayer campaign and no LAN play at all.

But, that's just me, I'm mostly just glad that I didn't waste any money on it. Blizzard has fallen so far from where they were in the mid 90s, it's embarrassing, really.

As an individual with a piss poor 1Mb wireless internet connection (with absolutely no other options. I almost regret living outside of town) an always on internet connection is a huge buzz kill for me.

I bought H.A.W.X 2 during the steam sales, unknowing it had an always on requirement, for PC and I've logged 0 minutes in the game because it won't load past the menu screen. Even with my internet connected.

I don't have any intention of pirating the game (since I wait to purchase most games anyway) but I wont buy it either if the always on requirement isn't dropped.

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Now that's just silly, why ?

If Blizzard was really that afraid that peoples are too retarded to understand that they can only use their offline character "offline" then they could have added a disclaimer while starting the game saying that if you decide to use a offline profile you won't be able to use it online later... you know kind of like of what they ALREADY did for Starcraft 2.

Do online-only mode for SP and "one character fits all" essentially outlaw any mods, even for private use?

The only mode you might be able to use are the "WOW-like" mods, for any game/gameplay altering mods you can forget about it.

I sure as hell won't get it.

Well, I'm not going to buy it either, but mostly because I don't need to - Torchlight 2 is due for a release date any day now, and I already have Kingdoms of Amalur on preorder at GameStop :D

Many Torchlight fans here. I don't get it. The game was so casual, even on hard setting, I quit playing this after several hours.

And nothing indicates that Torchlight 2 will be any less casual...

How so? I thought SC2 was basically just SC1 with better graphics

Other than the art design I don't get how it is casual. It even had a hardcore mode.

I couldn't die even if I tried hard.

Have you ever played Diablo 2 on Hell to compare?