Despite recent talk that Diablo 3′s required Internet connection was all about the player's character and Battle.net's feature set, game director Jay Wilson made it clear that the requirement is also to prevent the same amount of hacking as seen with Diablo 2. The revelation was made while explaining why it's a bad idea to have an offline mode for the upcoming action-RPG game. “If we allow an Offline mode, it changes the structure of the data that we have to put on the user's system,” he told PC Gamer during Gamescom.
2DayBlog.com, Blizzard: Diablo 3 internet requirement prevents hacking
