I quote from my post:



So, uh, I think we're on the same side here. Although just to be ornery, I would argue that there are some benefits. Things like curtailing, in large part, cheating/hacking, and making it easy for Blizz to quickly patch/hotfix most of the game's important code.

I do agree, however, that D3's online structure is a net negative for consumers. Blizzard is jumping into the cloud because of the benefits it offers THEM, without considering (or at least, caring about) the experience offered to their customers. As such, they deserve the flak they're catching around the 'net. They made a business decision and will have to live with it. Time will tell whether it was the right move.

Just to be absolutely clear, I've never intended to defend Blizzard with my posts in this thread (or at least, not much). I think Blizzard moved too much, and too soon. I do think, though, that most of consumer computing will move into the Cloud, and that this is both a good and an inevitable step. I'd like to convince people that they should keep an open mind, and not develop a blanket hate for "Cloud" over a few early implementations.