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The interviewer pushed the subject one last time before they ran out of time, but Martens remained insistent that gamers who are looking for an offline game aren't looking for Diablo 3. The Blizzard designer went on to shift the conversation towards the benefits of online mode, including new clan and group options. Martens didn't budge and said that the proposed offline system may work for veteran players, but it wouldn't create an inviting community for newcomers. The proposed change would make it so that players would never be locked out of the game just because of an internet outage.

The interviewer suggested that players wouldn't have any reason to be frustrated by that scenario if they were made aware that offline characters couldn't connect to online adventures at any time. He insisted that despite the single player campaign option, the game is meant to be played with friends. This necessary requirement for offline play led to a lot of frustration for players.

The problems in question surround the inability for offline characters to jump over to online if players decide they want to join a friend. If someone has no Internet access, then yeah, Diablo 3 is not the game for them."Īlthough Diablo 2 launched back in 2000, Blizzard seems convinced that the problems with that game's offline mode would resurface if the company dropped the online requirement from Diablo 3. And we think Internet access is widespread. That was the wrong choice to allow people to play offline, and we still stand by that. We have the online mode because we learned a lot over the many, many years that Diablo 2 was in development. We did not make that game, and we’re not going to turn this game into that game. Rock, Paper, Shotgun asked designer Kevin Martens about the possible removal of the online requirement and Martens explained that it is not a change Blizzard is considering. In the midst of all the exciting news to come out of BlizzCon 2013, including the announcement of a new World of Warcraft expansion, a lead designer on Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls addressed the lack of offline play in the game. Despite the improvements Blizzard has been working on, the company is still adamantly refusing to consider adding a feature that many fans feel would improve the game: Offline play.

After suffering one of the most painful single-player game launches in history, the loot-filled adventure game bounced back thanks to a series of patches that fixed game-breaking bugs, adjusted drop rates, and laid the groundwork to remove the unpopular auction house. It has been over a year and a half since Blizzard released the third installment in its iconic hack and slash dungeon crawler franchise on PCs and in many ways Diablo 3 has improved by leaps and bounds during that time.