“Diablo 3”: Always online until the end

With season 29, Blizzard says goodbye to the active further development of “Diablo 3”. The eleven-year-old action role-playing game finally gets a single-player mode called “Solo Self Found”. In it you play the well-known content of “Diablo 3” alone, so you can neither form parties nor trade with other players – a kind of challenge mode. Solo Self Found will be available to try on the Diablo 3 test servers starting August 16th.

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But what doesn’t change: “Diablo 3” needs a permanent internet connection to play. A moderator in the Blizzard forum confirms that players must also be connected to the Internet for the single-player mode. “‘Diablo 3’ is online-only on the PC,” writes the moderator. There is an option to play offline on the consoles. On the PC, however, there is no change in the online requirement, even in single-player mode.

Also “Diablo 4” with online compulsion

Even at the end of the active development of “Diablo 3”, Blizzard is not moving away from the always online obligation, which was so controversial when the action role-playing game was launched in 2012. Even with the successor “Diablo 4” players must always be connected to the network. Blizzard has even integrated further cooperative game elements into the game world that you share with other players. It seems unlikely that an offline mode desired by many fans will be integrated into “Diablo 4” in the foreseeable future.

However, “Diablo 3” also shows the other side of the coin: the game was actively supplied with updates and new seasons for over ten years, which brought fresh items and new challenges to Hack’n’Slay. “Diablo 4” should also be supplied for years. The developers who have been responsible for “Diablo 3” so far are now to be consulted for the current part.

Nevertheless, “Diablo 3” will remain playable and even get new seasons. However, this should be recycled content from the seasons that have already been released, Blizzard said in an interview with Wowhead magazine.

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