Why I won’t be playing Diablo III on the Playstation 4

Posted by on February 25, 2013 in Games

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A community manager on Blizzard’s forums explains that the characters I’ve spent dozens of hours playing in Diablo III, with even more dozens of hours potentially ahead, won’t be accessible in the Playstation 4 version.

While we think cross-platform play would be awesome, there are currently no plans to allow connectivity between PlayStation Network and Battle.net (this is pretty standard for most games that have PC and console support). As a result, the characters on your Battle.net account and PlayStation account will also remain separate.

In other words, Valve’s Portal 2 can do what Blizzard can’t.

There’s a certain point where you invest enough in a game that you’re not going to start over just because the developers have adapted it to a gamepad and your couch is comfortable. Diablo III has gone well beyond that point. Still, a Playstation 4 version will be great for people who can’t play Diablo III because they don’t have PCs. If you see any of them, tell them for me.

  • dio

    A couple of my reasons:

    1) It isn’t a very good game
    2) They are shipping a ‘single-player’ mode to the PS4 – after listening blab on about how necessary the always-on internet was for the PC version.

  • Brad Grenz

    That’s a real missed opportunity.

  • grasskit

    how about rumours its gonna have offline mode, any truth to them?

  • Barac Wiley

    I was pretty sure a PS3 version was also announced. I have no interest in the PS4 anytime soon, but I own a PS3 and if (if!) that version supports offline play I might have to get it, despite preferring the PC experience. I just want to be able to play Diablo III without supporting Blizzard’s terrible DRM decisions.

  • anon

    Can’t have the always online DRM offer any advantage, of course. Speaking of, I wonder if the the console versions will suffer the same fate — I assume so.

  • Aeneas

    Torchlight on the xbox syncs with my torchlight on Steam!

  • Mercanis

    It would be pretty cool if they patched controller support into the PC version.