I managed to stay in the game for a good portion of the day, but I’ve had to bail to make dinner. It had gotten super laggy in the last half hour anyway so I wasn’t really feeling up to doing much in-game.

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    My hardcore Barb found its end due to a nice little ~3000 ms lag spike.

    I was sceptical about playing a hardcore character in an online-only Diablo game and I guess I was right. Lesson learned: Hardcore is nothing but a waste of time, if deaths aren’t even your fault anymore.

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      They’re going for a new realism-focused edge to the game aesthetic: there’s a lot of deaths playing IRL that aren’t the player’s fault.

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      Back in D2 era I had a Necro on hardcore on closed realm battle net. This was sometime in the mid 2000s. He was level 81. I was on Harrogate, in town. Some sorc joined my game, hacked, and tppk’d me.

      You could argue it’s my fault for doing online HC, but I had friends I’d usually play with and liked meeting new people online.

      Still sucked and felt bad to die where I felt safe due to some asshole cheater.

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        Are you just here to whine about how bad Blizzard and Diablo are in 2023?

        Jeez, this place turns more and more into good old Reddit. Almost feels homey!

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          You’re the ones begging to play an offline game on a /Saturday/Sunday but can’t.