With that, this also brings up the question of whether or not the industry will take these sales figure as some sort of ringing endorsement of always-on DRM. My thoughts are yes they will, and in the long wrong it will bite them in the behind, as I suspect a lot of people are making an exception for Diablo. I bought the game, and it's the one time I'll do so. Case in point, I've yet to play the Assassin's Creed series thanks to Ubi Soft's DRM as much as I've been tempted to try the games, and that will never change. So, publishers, don't assume Diablo III's success is a universal mark of tacit approval for always online DRM.
