Oh now I see, I never use that option actually (Alt + Tab) I just press the windows key, when I have to 'abruptly' minimize games with 'real' fullscreen modes, but I still remember all the problemS I had when playing fullscreen games and doing that on Windows 95/2000 and I think even XP, so I always close the game normally. But now I get what you say, I don't like that fullscreen mode for a 'real' fullscreen neither, is too vulnerable to all kinds of pop-up's.

I was reading the comments at the official webpage, a lot of upset people over there...

I haven't read the comments or anything... but a single player game should play fine on the release day, or any day for that matter. If I bought a game with no intention to play online I'd be very upset that I couldn't play the single player portion.

Seriously?

Ok, fine:

I haven't read the comments or anything... but a game where you play alone should play fine on the release day, or any day for that matter. If I bought a game with no intention to play online I'd be very upset that I couldn't play alone.

In the few hours that I could play so far when stuff was working (which was last night two hours after launch and this afternoon), I managed to magic missile and chain lightning my way through Act I.

I love the fast pace of the game and I like it just as much if not more than the previous two games already so all that's left to make me happy now are stable servers.

Huh? I thought the game was server-side(beta was), and it didn't have any gameplay code. Is it really just DRM?

I call BS on that, they'll likely have to do what WoW Private servers do, which is coding their own server emulator for everything. I doubt they could do something of that magnitude within hours of release.

The gameplay is server side. It feels like that, at least. I've got some lag spikes while playing. AFAIK it's just a server emulator like WoW and other MMO's server emulators.

Being able to play alone doesn't change the fact it's an on-line only game. And you can't play alone everything. At least from what I've read, the inferno difficulty is not soloable, and you need to play it if you want the best items.

The only server I know was for the beta, and it took a lot of time to make. I don't know if that same server works for the full game.

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Heh, Diablo 3 isn't exempt from those "WTF, how the code must look like for a bug like this to even be possible" bugs:

Weird .

Man really sorry for bother you again... The problem is I won't buy this game but these design comments are interesting. Are you saying that the client is just sending the input message to the server and then the server is returning the info to the client? Instead of making an on server validation and let the user to move freely even before the info is sent back to the client?

I experienced no FPS drop, but my PC is pretty powerful, so that might be why.

Average user score at metacritic is 36%. http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo-iii/user-reviews?user_review_id=2340431#user_review_2340431

Seems a lot are giving the score based on being unable to play offline. But a lot due to point, click, grind then automatically allocated skills/attributes and a limited set of character classes that can't be customised.

Double bonus to buy the game imported (from U.K.): I still don't have it so the server problems don't affect me, and it costs me only 37€

No, I didn't mean that. It does as you say, as most online games do. But if the connections lags a lot you can move, but if those commands don't get to the server in time or at all, when the server sends you an updated state you'll jump back to where you where. When it comes to using spells, though, you can't use them if the server doesn't answer (so what usually happens is that you click the spell key a bunch of times and nothing happens, and after some time you see yourself launching a bunch of spells at the same time (unless they have a cooldown)).