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How much of D3's processing is done offloaded? Are there any articles online that I could read about this?

Map generation, some enemy AI, and most frustratingly: combat action outcomes.

My story was the same as numerous other players: started playing hardcore, died not because of a mistake, but because of lag (internet lagged for a few seconds, that was enough for monsters to kill me, when internet came back moments later I was told I died).

At that moment I decided not give ANY more money to Blizzard, and closed my WoW membership.

Originally they told us quite a bit of logic was done on their servers. But then they announced that Diablo 3 would be playable offline on the PlayStation 4. Now I don't know what to believe. Could it be it was all just talk to stop us from trying?

The servers are almost certainly running from the same source base as the client. Swapping out who-does-what, compared to a console port, is trivial.

Or that the PS4 version is the first variant that has enough functionality built in for it to be playable offline.

they're probably just running the server code on the ps4 alongside the client. it's easier to secure there

No, item drops are actually done on a server, to guarantee fair drops for everyone(you can sell them for real money, so you would rather make sure nobody just adds an item worth $$$ to their inventory). PS4 won't be connected to the Auction House, so most likely it will include just its own, internal version of the server that will generate item drops.

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