Nah it's an action RPG with a huge online community. Personally the only thing I think Bliz is doing is preventing hacks and mods and piracy.

Normally I am against DRM. Diablo III can use it.. that is cool with me.

So if it is a huge online community, doesn't it sort of need that internet connection?

To ensure people aren't cheating and that the world is updated.

it's like this... you're in a lobby or channel, random or what not... you can hop to different lobbies created for different reasons.

i used to hang out in Cooperative Players USEAST, but eventually blizz TOOK OUT THE DAMN CHANNEL.
Probably because myself and a few other players would rush people through the game on all Difficulties... I was able to do a full rush in around 7 minutes or so, as my fastest recorded, using a Sorceress.

OK, ANYWAY... you're in lobby and there are options to create a game and set it's difficulty and number of players... the "gameworld" is only consistent until all players are gone from the game, however there is a set amount of time you have to go back in to he game and keep it up, after that time expires, the game is gone and you create another.

I used to transfer items between accounts, by myself. It sucks bad when your internet connection mysteriously dies because of a tree pulling the line down and you are trading several hundred soj worth of items lol.

Criers gonna Cry. Just ask John Crier.

The opposite is also true, some people get pushed around, oblige and even worse spouts nonsense to protect the offender.

The victim is a self inflicted! Nice!!!

Battle pass exclusives.

i played only during launch and i found the ones in that battlepass to be absolute dogwater, the only ones that looked somewhat cool were the paid ones in the store and i wont bother with either. The game itself was just so hollow, there were no cool builds cause every synergy was just "x or y skills does more dmg or has this extra effect" almost no experimentation needed, couldnt give a rats ass about armor if the core of the game is boring af.