Max Schaefer talks about TL2 and D3

[kandrathe]

Well. In the pantheon of games out there, this one will be in my top 20, as are Diablo, and Diablo II. The game is new yet -- we've yet to see where it's going. I'll play TL2 as well -- because it looks like it'll be fun. I'm also looking forward to 2013 release of TES online. DIII is not a perfect game, but it's been a fun game so far. I've got about 57 hours on my Barbarian, who is just starting Hell difficulty. That's about the same amount of time as going to, or renting 20 movies. I've already gotten a decent return on my entertainment dollar, and I've got 4 other classes to work up to 60 inferno as well before I'm "done" with it. Maybe I'll hit a wall and set them aside. But... If it hurts, I'll stop beating my head against the wall and go do something more fun.

I believe the days of installing the entire game onto a PC are pretty much over due to piracy. I'd say the net is ubiquitous. I own a whole library (probably 50 or so) of games on Steam that aren't even installed on my computer unless I want to play them. And, yes, some ISP's or internet services are bad. However, when enough customer's complain they either fix it, or go out of business. In fact, some prognosticators are predicting the end of the home desktop computer altogether... I dunno. Maybe we will all have net appliances and/or iPads someday.

As an aside; Way back in the 70's, Control Data had the Plato system with graphical terminals driven by a timeshare mainframe. I worked hard to get my programs written for class, and online tests taken so I could get online and play Moria. It made sense to separate client side graphics and server side content(esp. multi-player content) then, and it still does if... and this is the big if... the net is really ubiquitous.