Check out the question and the answer below it. RPS obviously hit a sore spot with their inquiry.

RPS: What if people don’t want to commit to a community? What if they just want to play the game?

Martens: We didn’t make that game. That’s the straight-up answer. We did not make that game, and we’re not going to turn this game into that game. We have the online mode because we learned a lot over the many, many years that Diablo II was in development.

That was the wrong choice to allow people to play offline, and we still stand by that. And we think Internet access is widespread. If someone has no Internet access, then yeah, Diablo III is not the game for them.

[PR motions that time is up]

RPS: Thanks for your time.

“If I let you use the controller on the PC, then I have to let you use the user interface that goes with it, and if I give you the roll and I haven’t throttled the number of enemies attacking you because the mouse-and-keyboard players can handle all those enemies, but with a controller you have too many guys,” Berger added.

When you think about it one of the things that Diablo players loved about the series and wanted to see more of in Diablo 3 is frantic widespread battles with dozens of enemies. Slowing that down for PC players would likely be a step in the wrong direction that the loyal original fans of the series might find insulting.

Less is sometimes more, and in this case no controller support for PC might be a seriously good decision.

At a panel at its BlizzCon convention in Anaheim, California, Blizzard revealed new features of Diablo 3’s Reaper of Souls expansion that heavily ramp up the randomisation of the game and remove the need for players to endlessly retread the game’s heavily scripted campaign acts.

Game director Josh Mosqueira admitted that the original game’s campaign did not sit well with the series’ tradition of randomisation, with environments that felt largely similar on subsequent play-throughs.

Not only will new campaign environments like the just-unveiled climatctic area, Pandemonium, have much more randomised layouts – where their form and the direction you take through them can be radically changed – but the game will be opened out by a new, more random way to play: Adventure mode.

To read the full article check out Eurogamer.net

In addition, IOS and Android editions of the game were announced today and should be expected some time during the “first half” of 2014.

Blizzard is working on golden heroes, which will be unlocked in a new ranked play mode. These will be fully animated, just as golden minions are.

Blizzard’s goal with the new ranked play mode is to make constructed as much fun as the Arena mode, currently favoured among closed beta players.

With Blizzard announced a number of news worthy items during today’s Blizzcon 2013 keynote speech. Heroes of the Storm (previously known as Blizzard All-Stars) is another MOBA game in an already tight market. It’s no secret that Blizzard is aiming directly at Riot’s smash hit League of Legends. While only time will tell if that is possible, the fight for 2nd place between Dota II and Heroes of the Storm will also be an interesting fight that has already been fought for some time in the courtroom.