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One of the core elements is Diablo 3 multiplayer, which will be though battle.net 2.0, where blizzard focus on Diablo 3 cooperative gameplay. Diablo 3 will currently not feature LAN play or open Battle.net.
Wilson: Currently we plan to allow everyone to play, even offline. What we’ve done though is changed the menu to encourage Battle.net play. In Diablo 2, the first option was Single Player. You click it, playing the game in normal difficulty, and think “Hey, now I want to play with my friends.” Because if you look at Battle.net, you can’t bring your single player character over. There’s still a separation of offline and Battle.net characters. We want all to know that it’s better to play on Battle.net. You can play with others and if they want, they can password their games and play alone. But should you decide to play offline, then we want the player to know that he is absolutely not required to play online. We have no intent to support LAN games, because we focus on Battle.net, where we have the ability to keep everyone in contact with the Blizzard community.
