Quote Originally Posted by ara View Post
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldnt' they just keep the multiplayer separate from the singleplayer? Isn't that what diablo2 did? From what I undestood there was a multiplayer only mode, where you could only use your multiplayer characters, and another mode where you could use your singleplayers online?
Like has been said people used offline play to dupe items into multiplayer, am sure that Blizzard could keep them seperate so there is no possible way to transfer anything from offline play to online play.

However they've said they don't want to do this because they don't feel that forcing people to start over from scratch if they make a multiplayer character is a good idea. At the end of the day most people have broadband these days and while it really sucks if you have net problems or even no net, the vast majority of players don't have these problems.