Diablo Multiplayer or single

[Bob the Beholder]

Angel,Nov 8 2003, 10:36 AM]

That would be lag.  And the spammers out in the channels.  And the necessity of being online to play.

I have broadband, and I could play online if I wanted to.  But my connection still isn't so great.  I've spent a grand total of... maybe five hours of play online, over the past three years.  And it was the lag, the spammers, and the excessive power-gamers that turned me off of it.  Not to mention that I happen to attract every moron that can somehow learn to use a computer, but can't learn how to do arcane things like 'speaking English', or 'using the shift key'. 


Really.  A place where the most common phrase is "hehehehe i mak u di stfu nub!!!1" is not a place I want to be.  It is in fact a place that I want to destroy.

Hey, you're preaching to the choir. I too feel physical pain in the face of 7133-speakers, and feel the unrepressable urge to do some real violence to these people whenever they rear their ugly faces.

However, if you play alone online, you won't be bothered by these people. With 1.10 you never have to enter the chat before a game, and you can password your games each time you play, so you'll play alone.

If you have broadband, you really shouldn't experience lag, but if you do, who am I to say it shouldn't happen? What speed is your connection?

edit: .. and if you have broadband, aren't you online constantly?

Yes, I'm online constantly. But I'm connected through a rather crappy wireless LAN. It's not as fast as a LAN should be, and it suddenly loses signal at the most innoportune times.

I did play online some, though. If I remember correctly, I mainly just started a public game, which no one ever joined, and there was lag like crazy. Well, lag like crazy compared to single player, at least. There were black walls, and I ended up whacking monsters over and over and over, when I had already killed them (they just hadn't figured it out yet, apparently). And it took several seconds for the vendors' shops to load.

It wasn't too bad, though. A level 84 paladin gave me his entire set of equipment because he wanted to start over without twinking. :) Too bad I couldn't use any of it for a very long time, and really didn't want to play that long.