All your characters share a single item stash.
Joining a friend’s game takes one click - and then porting directly to them takes one more. Once you actually log in, Diablo’s gameplay is a piece of seamless mastery. Because of this, your characters will survive a hard disk crash, and they’re accessible from any internet-connected computer - you can log into D3 from a friend’s computer (or your office computer) and continue from where you left off. Every time you loot or equip an item, that change is automatically saved to Blizzard’s database. Unlike Diablo 2 or other offline games, all of your D3 characters reside in the cloud - in one of Blizzard’s huge database servers, just like your WoW character. In fact, think of Diablo 3 as an MMO, like World of Warcraft or Star Wars: The Old Republic. To begin with, it helps if you think of Diablo 3 as an online game. Users and critics are quick to draw comparisons to Ubisoft’s aborted use of must-remain-connected-to-the-internet DRM, but Diablo 3 is really very different. In reality, Diablo 3’s connectivity requirement exists for a handful of compelling reasons that actually make the game better. Really, given the faith that Blizzard has garnered from its users over the last 20 years, I’m surprised that fans have been so quick to label this feature as crippling DRM, or worse, the hellspawn of Blactivision’s CEO, Bobby Kotick. Now, while it’s true that D3’s reliance on does act as a form of DRM, this is just a value-added extra as far as Activision-Blizzard are concerned. If there hadn’t been any login difficulties, the always-online thing probably would’ve faded into the background, obscured by legendary-tinted glasses - but because some 2+ million people have spent the past week battling with heinous lag, Error 33, Error 37, and Error 3003, critics and gamers have focused their ire on what they perceive to be the issue: Diablo 3’s always-online DRM. It’s not like this is news - Blizzard announced that the game would require an internet connection last year - but unfortunately it was brought into sharp relief by a flurry of server issues and extended maintenance downtime over the past week.
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