And before that there were wonderful days without the Internet at all, lol. Diablo 1 was offline and Diablo 3 is online only, so what? They are both cool games. Blizzard does this for drm and against cheats. All my favorite games are online only, and I see nothing wrong with that. Just the same with my games, it used to be offline, now all my games are online, and I have a lot of cool online features (with multiplayer battles, cross-game quests, cross-platform saves, etc). Online only is stated in the first post, and this will not change. If this does not suit you, you can play any other game on this forum.