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Blizzard: Sorry, You'll Have To Be Online To Play Diablo III

Blizzard executive vice president of game design, Rob Pardo, delivered the bad news (well, for some of you anyway) at an invite-only preview event, claiming all the stuff they're throwing into the game "requires" placing gamers on an Internet leash.

Some of that stuff reportedly includes a friends list, cross-game chat (voice) courtesy Blizzard's Real ID system, online storage of characters, persistent parties, player-versus-player and public game matchmaking, dynamic joining or leaving in cooperative play mode, an item stash shared across multiple characters (up to 10), an auction house, achievements and stat-tracking, and a vanity system (something to do with visibile banners) that'll display your achievements to other players.

I know, there's a bit of the usual smoke and mirrors here, whereby Blizzard's probably really pushing the online-only thing "to thwart pirates and cheaters," but couched in "to make your playing experience more seamless." It'd be simple enough to sort the online and offline components into separate play columns and temporarily disable the online bits and bobs in an offline situation, just as StarCraft II does. Simple enough, but not secure enough, apparently.

Not that it'll thwart pirates (or cheaters). They've apparently been circumventing Blizzard's anti-theft, anti-cheating measures for years, including running illicit versions of World of Warcraft and StarCraft II. Blizzard boots them periodically, but they're a moving target. No system's foolproof.

But perhaps I'm being too hard on Blizzard. At what point does a game become online-only? No one balks at World of Warcraft's online-only play requirement or complains about their inability to play it on a plane (though many aircraft now have airborne connections almost fast enough to do so). I'm no fan of online-only software, since the Internet still has reliability issues, but it's more dependable than satellite television (where the signal's impeded any time a major thunderstorm rolls through) and to be perfectly honest, I never actually played StarCraft II offline.

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Firstly, do quests. In the game, you will find some NPCs who with exclamation points over their heads. If the color of the exclamation point is gold, you can talk to the person and do the quest for him. But if it is grey, it means that you haven’t reached the required level. If you see a NPC with gold question mark, it means that you have completed the quest and you can turn in it to him or her. You will gain wow gold and items as reward after you complete each quest.

Secondly, create your character. There are two factions in World of Warcraft – the Horde and the Alliance. You can choose either of these factions. You need to create a character after choosing the realm. There are eight classes in the game, choose the class and race in which you want to play. After you create your character and login game, you must feel confuse about the first area. But Please don’t worry, there is a tips box at the bottom of the screen which continuously gives you hints on the game, it is very helpful. And if you press key ESC, you can see your key controls and change your key bindings.

Finally, your PC configuration, you need to have a Pentium IV PC for playing World of Warcraft.

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