Can't Diablo IV be played offline?

I spent 8 hours just downloading this game and now am queued to log in. Log in to what? Isn’t the game on my computer? I don’t want to play on line or multiplayer. I just want to play it.

I’m 100% with you. I have all D3 achievements including the hard core ones. What kills hard core characters isn’t lack of skill, it’s lag, 75% of the time. I love D4, it’s a great game, but without an offline mode, I doubt I’ll want to invest as much time into it as I put into D3 to do everything I wanted to (playing at Torment 11 without difficulty).

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