User blog comment:Ausir/Diablo III requires constant Internet connection/@comment-2154860-20110802102059

If you look at the state of Diablo 2 online right now, a public game is unplayable for at least ten minutes as you're waiting for the item shop spam to stop. D2jsp is the most popular trading site, and many now can treat the ladder like it doesn't exist, so I can see where they're coming from, bur really this is just a sign that Diablo 2 needed better policing. Personally, I'm never going to spend money on pixels. My fun isn't in buying cookie cutter gear so my bot can farm for my duelling characters. In fact, I despise duelling. Always online? Yes, I can see that it won't be long before there will be a mod that will allow you to play it offline, and it is just another reason to not buy the damn game at all.

My dread since I heard about a sequel to Diablo 2 has only managed to grow.