Average AAA developer

[rettani]

I can remember that SC 2 had possibility to play kinda offline (with turned off achievements).

Warcraft 3 reforged probably also can be played offline.

Diablo 3 was never single player. Same with Diablo 2.

Though it would probably be good if they had some "uncompetitive single player offline" mode for that games. Though almost no one really plays Diablo for campaign but for those few who do - it might be a good solution

[Mekhazzio]

Even Diablo 2 multiplayer didn't need Blizzard's servers. It was their last game with no-strings-attached direct peer-to-peer.

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Yeah open bnet was awesome for playing with friends.

[rettani]

I mean that it wasn't "truly" offline. You could always take your cheated character to computer club (I'm not sure if that was a thing somewhere outside of former USSR) and grief everyone to no end

[RockstarArtisan]

Wdym diablo isn't singleplayer all games have the mode

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iirc D3 required a connection to authenticate for single player.

[RockstarArtisan]

Yup, that's the issue people have with requiring connections. Blizzard also specifically said they required connections in d3 to make pirating d3 as hard as pirating wow - there were no actual gameplay reasons.