2011-08-02, 06:35 AM
It's been semi-confirmed (Haven't found the official source yet) that there IS a "Single player" mode, but you have to be connected to the internet at all times for the reasons as mentioned by Nomad.
As someone said, "It will work the same way as Starcraft 2. You can play 'offline', but you won't have access to some features (e.g. achievements, Auction House)."
Also it's worth checking this out, it goes into depth about the AH system for D3. Hopefully it'll ease on some of the rage.
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/26397-th...explained/
As someone said, "It will work the same way as Starcraft 2. You can play 'offline', but you won't have access to some features (e.g. achievements, Auction House)."
Quote:According to Rob Pardo, executive producer of Diablo III, this was done mainly to combat the style of hacking present in previous versions of Diablo. "In both Diablo and especially in Diablo II, I think the intuition for a lot of people when they're playing the game is 'I want to make my character offline away from that scary battle net environment. And then once I have this powerful character, I'll jump online.' But the problem with that concept is we can't really detect if they're cheating. They might have the capability to hack their character, things like that, so at that point we can't really allow that character to be in the battle net environment. Then they're going to have to restart their character, which is exactly what happened in Diablo II, which was really unfortunate."
"Your character will be online on battle net the moment you start playing," said Pardo. "You can play a solo experience like you would in Diablo II, it's just your character is on Blizzard's servers and authenticated." This character can then hop into multiplayer games and trade items with others through battle net.
Also it's worth checking this out, it goes into depth about the AH system for D3. Hopefully it'll ease on some of the rage.
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/26397-th...explained/