I'll second that. Looks like I may need to set up the "workstation" I need to finish rebuilding to dual-boot in case I ever want to do some PC gaming... I'm sure my little Zacate desktop just wouldn't handle it.

Piracy is a flag waved frequently with these arguments, however it just doesn't make sense. You can currently download WoW ISOs, install them, use a patch, then play on non-Blizzard servers. This used to be (if it isn't still) a big deal, and took minimal effort. I paid for WoW for a long time, but I was still…

This isn't entirely correct. There isn't a difference between SP and MP, they both go through battle.net. What people want is a mode that is free of battle.net.

Someone needs to take RIM behind the barn and end this.

...shut up and take my money?

Nope, nobody elected me, however these are thoughts I had, so I am sharing them. It is a complaint, one you disagree with. Not sure how that makes it bitching, calling it that " just makes this argument silly."

Either of you have experience with non-music content? I'm thinking this would work great as part of a wireless listening system for my television, so I don't wake the kids and I can watch Netflix when I'm unable to sleep. So long as voices are reasonably clear, I don't care too much about music sounding a bit off.

I said you seem to think it, based upon your view that it is a petty excuse for someone to dislike the online-only requirement of a game that did not have to be online-only based upon their poor net connection. A bit of a difference there.

Any personal experience? That certainly looks better than the bedphones in terms of comfort, though it is +$10 in price. If they work, that's $10 well spent.

"Basically, since there aren't any others 'intended' for this use, they probably sound awful."

Would love to hear actual reviews of these, but I'm not biting until then.

This caused me to vomit a bit in my mouth. I'm disgusted by the pillow I bought last year, and no amount of washing would change that. If only those pillow covers were worth anything... Not the cases, but the things that sometimes come in waterproof variants that keep the pillow itself a bit safer from all the junk…

Still doesn't convince me that this isn't a DRM move. Besides, what's to stop Blizzard from putting in a warning screen before you do offline, something to the tune of "Hey, you go this route, and this toon is NEVER going online. OK?" That would take care of it, and anyone whining after that has only themselves to…

Throttling is not unlimited, as it is imposing a synthetic limit on your bandwidth speed. If it were truly unlimited, you would be getting the maximum possible bandwidth available to your device, without some magical limiter dropped in once you hit some amount.

True, the markets aren't a requirement for play, however BattleNet is, and that's the real gripe I have. If my whole plan is to either play on my own or play with a small group of people I know, then using BattleNet seems like overkill, and requires that I log into the service.

"Seriously, does anyone care about the privacy of consumers?"

Having a stable internet connection is far from the only reason. It limits your options. Unless you have a cellular connection, you won't be playing in random places that happen to lack open wifi. You won't play on a plane any time soon. All of those are cases where having a connection doesn't make sense, and I…

tl;dr - Eating at a chain restaurant is almost never a "good" dietary choice. People do not (and should not) go to chain restaurants to be healthy, but instead to eat awful food that tastes delicious.

How about including that offline portion, rather than assuming we don't want it? Not being able to tie the offline characters to an auction house makes perfect sense, and it would be insane for Blizzard to even consider it, what with the ease of hacking a save file. All the same, part of why Diablo II was so great…

Why do people choose to do anything? Because they enjoy it. A couple of cigarettes a day can quickly become a pack a day, and that is costly. Unlike some habits, this is physically addictive, which means that seeing how it costs you financially, physically, and mentally is not always enough to actually stop doing…