Seriously, I understand that minimal storyline is cheaper to produce, and online only solves "piracy" and allows monetization of basic gameplay through gambling, etc, but I am so sick of it. D3 was wretched as the drops were always useless, and everything was geared towards online play outside the storyline if you ever wanted to have "good" equipment. This was offset by having an absurdly out of balance normal character, especially by the latter half of the story game.

I hate online play - if I wanted be to treated to a bunch of varyingly spelled curse words I'd just go create a twitter account where I pretended to be a woman in tech. It would be cheaper and just as unpleasant.

[edit: or SC2, which I used to do PVP until the adoption of a free to play PVP model resulting in a dramatic increase in the amount of abuse and shitty behaviour of other people. Presumably because getting your account banned simply means creating another one. Honestly I wish they had a "play vs people who paid only" mode.]