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Diablo III Release Date Set for May 15th
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The Internet Connection requirement is the thing that kept me from clicking on the pre-order button. That's way too much DRM for my liking. I've spent countless hours playing Diablo I and II back in the day, but I'm afraid that Blizzard won't see my money for this game. I don't feed companies that don't trust their customers with my cash.
I am sure Blizzard and all of the millions of gamers who are going to be playing it will notice that one small gap in the universe where your presence would have been....
You know, there are two sides of the story here. You can choose to join the herd of will-less consumer cattle that blindly obey all the rules that corporations impose on them -- OR -- you can choose to vote with your money against supporting Big Brother. You might not enjoy the latest shiny but ultimately useless distractions, but at least you made a conscious choice and said no to yet another attempt at intruding your privacy.
No entertainment product is more important than your privacy and your personal rights. And definitely no entertainment product is so great that you even have to PAY for granting others the permission to spy on you through YOUR Internet connection.
But I'm afraid that this is a discussion that the Facebook generation fails to comprehend.