Can't offline and online characters be interchangeable?

[无糖冰红茶]

[crank]

offline chars are editable....now what would happen

[Vortyrion]

If we can freely switch between online and offline mode with single character that will resolve a lot of the current issues. Not sure if is technically possible though.
Or if this is some design decision with major reason behind it.
Like avoiding people using tools to generate items offline and then bring them in online economy.

[Myrkana]

Originally posted by Vortyrion:

If we can freely switch between online and offline mode with single character that will resolve a lot of the current issues. Not sure if is technically possible though.
Or if this is some design decision with major reason behind it.
Like avoiding people using tools to generate items offline and then bring them in online economy.

and make a ton of new issues.

[stylez]

Diablo 2 Open Realm says hi.

[F.O.A.M]

no, because the devs decided to do the most idiotic thing in the universe.
make offline characters able to edit things aka cheat.
they give offline players cheat and then make it unable for them to swap to online making offline play a waste of time if you ever feel like playing in a group / with a friend.
it is THE worst "system" i have ever seen in a videogame. and i have been playing games for 20 years.
make it a checkbox you have to tick when making a character.
"do you want to cheat with this offline character and be unable to play online with it? yes or no?"

its that simple. but they fked it on every level

[Vortyrion]

Originally posted by Myrkana:

Originally posted by Vortyrion:

If we can freely switch between online and offline mode with single character that will resolve a lot of the current issues. Not sure if is technically possible though.
Or if this is some design decision with major reason behind it.
Like avoiding people using tools to generate items offline and then bring them in online economy.

and make a ton of new issues.

What kind of issues? I'm not arguing just curios, I don't have good knowledge about this topic.

[Rofl Waffle]

Originally posted by Cthulhu Allspark:

no, because the devs decided to do the most idiotic thing in the universe.
make offline characters able to edit things aka cheat.
they give offline players cheat and then make it unable for them to swap to online making offline play a waste of time if you ever feel like playing in a group / with a friend.
it is THE worst "system" i have ever seen in a videogame. and i have been playing games for 20 years

Even if a game doesn't have a cheat feature built in it's not very hard to make a cheat for a singe player game. To me it sounds just like you are a salty entitled kid.

[Vortyrion]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but even if the offline characters are not officially editable, it's easy to edit them with tools when you play offline. And if you then can bring them online the servers won't be able to tell if those items that you have are from legitimate drop or not.

[Lemmiwinkz]

Originally posted by Cthulhu Allspark:

no, because the devs decided to do the most idiotic thing in the universe.
make offline characters able to edit things aka cheat.
they give offline players cheat and then make it unable for them to swap to online making offline play a waste of time if you ever feel like playing in a group / with a friend.
it is THE worst "system" i have ever seen in a videogame. and i have been playing games for 20 years.
make it a checkbox you have to tick when making a character.
"do you want to cheat with this offline character and be unable to play online with it? yes or no?"

its that simple. but they fked it on every level

Get a load of this guy, smooth brain talk.

Proper Offline Play is always - by it's nature - more susceptible for all manners of foul play, editing and cheating. You do not want that to have an impact on the online system or economy.
20 years and nothing learned.

[Space]

Originally posted by stylez:

Diablo 2 Open Realm says hi.

lmao

[Myrkana]

Originally posted by Vortyrion:

Originally posted by Myrkana:

and make a ton of new issues.

What kind of issues? I'm not arguing just curios, I don't have good knowledge about this topic.

offline characters likely arent verified by the servers and can be cheated on. Imagine cheating in all kinds of stuff and bringing that to the online servers, ruin the economy by selling tons of high value legendaries.