<Lurkers> organization in D3

[Sirian]

I'll do softcore.

I did some hardcore single player, but D3 is not going to have single player.

Here are just some of the reasons (other than me making mistakes) why a server-based hardcore could go badly wrong:

* My internet goes out (briefly, or not) at the wrong moment.

* Power goes out.

* Important phone call occurs.

* My wife needs my attention suddenly.

* I have a cat blocking my view of the monitor.

* Cat pulls the cable modem off my desk.

* Cat unplugs my computer.


ALL of these things have gotten me killed (through no fault of my own, regardless of my skill level and attention to survival) in World of Warcraft, and in shooters.

The game isn't smart enough to tell the difference between deaths caused by outside intervention vs deaths that result from my playing.

Besides. My hardcore experiences that were worth relating came later. All the early ones were plagued by not knowing where my boundaries were and playing things too cautiously. ... What is the point of playing it safe all the time? And what is the point of playing hardcore when you aren't going to play it safe, and will keep dying and having to start over?

Surely my most memorable Hardcore adventure was Softcore Wussie. I had the double excitement of playing hardcore with a reckless style and also conveying that recklessness in my reports without giving away the big secret until the end. But that was after learning both the class and the game so thoroughly that I had a chance of pulling it off. ... But I'd never have tried it through even 100ms of lag, nor with the risk of losing all that investment over an internet connection outage.

I don't need the game to track my variant play. Never did. I'll devise my own challenges and manage them as I see fit. They can keep their online-only Hardcore.


- Sirian