So I considered entirely removing local play to simplify my life and to drive traffic to server play (when it's ready). For the moment I have decided against removing it, but I do think I will strip down some of its attractive features like the leaderboard, nightmare and hell difficulties, and maybe more. The point is I will allow it to exist, but some of the better features will be stripped out since I would much rather drive traffic to server accounts for obvious reasons. I decided against taking it out entirely since it makes it easier to share on some of the game portals out there if there's a version without in-app purchases.

Keep a local account! Think of it as closed and open battle.net back in the Diablo 1/2 days. You could probably see and allow some constructive cheating on local play which will help you find bugs.

Uh, maybe. I am definitely moving everything to nevergrind.com though. The www. stuff causes some metrics issues.