I know misscheeta will come in soon touting the company line. I just want the official CM to come in and reply.
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You wonât get any. There is nothing to discuss. The CMs have no control over design decisions, and there is nothing else to pass to them regarding the topic. Yes, a handful of people advocate for an offline mode. None of their arguments are new. A group of people counter those arguments, their points are not new either.
This topic is a dead horse.
Your first thread asking for a Blue reply to Offline mode DID get a Blue response, but the CM chose not to reply to you directly and pointed out that D4 communications will be in the form of the quarterly blog posts.
You already know what the Devs said about it at Blizzcon.
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Look at any decent AAA title that was torrented within first 2 days.
After a week, look at their sales numbers
Then look at the number of torrent downloads on even ONE tracker. And there will be hundreds if not thousands of mirrors.
Millions of people torrent popular titles instead of buying them. Thereâs even an entire subculture of internet users who invent all sorts of justifications why thatâs the right thing to do and why everyone who pays money for games is either a loser or outright public enemy.
And it may not be as big of a problem in US, where mere 30-ish percent will torrent it. But in other countries, like Russia, Egypt or second-rate EU countries - the number goes well over 90%.
There were games that were literally mostly pirated and whose devs didnât even earn enough money to keep their company afloat. Some of those games are considered all-time classics now, the only problem with them being that nobody actually bought them from the actual developer.
So youâre saying because The Witcher 3 was released on GoG a DRM free service that no one bought the game and it wasnât a success. Gotcha, you live in a corporate talking points fantasy world.
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Maybe you should follow forum rules. It isnât about toeing the company line.
What forum rules? Go ahead cite them.
I am NOT saying that.
Donât try to twist things your way.
I am saying, that if you look at torrents - there are actually MORE torrents of Witcher 3 downloaded than copies sold that CDPR reports. It was pirated A LOT.
It could have over twice as many sales as it did, if there was any way to DRM it securely.
Now, itâs still a good game, and it still sold enough copies to be a huge hit for the devs. Note, however, that itâs a Poland studio and prices there are much lower than in US California, so their earnings would seem much higher to them.
It is UNDENIABLE that they would have earned more if there was a safe, unintrusive DRM available. There is no such thing, sadly.
The reason why they chose DRM-free is EXACTLY because secure offline DRM ruin user experience, and they decided to just swallow piracy instead of making their game worse.
Not every company can or is willing to do that. And you canât expect them to.
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You donât seem to understand pirates. People pirate games to see if they work on their machines, see if its worth their money and if they do like the game they will purchase them. There are no demos anymore so you canât find out if a game is good or not before purchase. And if you purchase games digitally you canât exactly get a refund if say you use steam. That money is refunded to your steam account and not your bank account.
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I already did. 
With both the link and the quote which will cover why your thread very well may get deleted or locked.
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No it wont. Youâre always proven wrong and have no idea what youâre talking about.
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And then 99% of them donât buy the real thing, because hey! It already works!
In our days, you can refund games easily if they donât work on your PC. It has been so for YEARS. I have refunded several Steam games personally, and never had an issue.
No. People pirate games because they donât want to PAY.
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Well no kids are dumb and donât understand requirements to play a game. So sure lots of little kids and mentally deficient people will download a torrent for a popular game hoping to play it only to find out that they donât have a video card and the game plays at 3-5 fps or doesnât load at all.
I assume that was a reply to me, although I canât be sure. I quote the forum guidelines as you wanted, and you still deny they exist?
I guess I should not be shocked. You seem to deny that the Devs already gave an answer on D4 offline mode.
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yeah, but when a thread reaches 3.5k Replies itâs something exceptional. like thers only one of them in the forums now. at least acknowledge this, no?
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Then those âkidsâ should ask their parents to decide if they can buy that game.
If their parents donât buy them the game - they shouldnât be able to play it. Least of all through stealing it.
They were posted above in green so itâs easy to find.
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No one denies that you guys are passionate about offline mode.
But the answer has already been given. Officially.
What use is there repeating the same thing to you?
And even if they do - then what? You create another 3.5k reply topic, and demand them acknowledge it ONCE MORE?
Or what?
Also, of those 3.5k - at least 1k is off-topic, and a good portion of the rest is arguments AGAINST offline.
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No it hasnât there has been ZERO communication since blizzcon about it.
Your point being�
We are talking about the harm piracy does. Not the reasons people do that to begin with.
You canât get blood from a stone thatâs the point. Piracy doesnât hurt anyone and itâs been proven multiple times. The people that pirate and donât purchase the product wouldnât purchase the product anyways.
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