Anubis
No Lifer
All it did on Hardcore was delete your character from the main saves directory. You could always cheat and copy your char back over there if you wanted to. Ah, the benefits of having local saves. No more though, now that everything is in the "cloud."
IIRC you could not cheat around it if you played on the ladder. and i never played non ladder for anything other then testing out builds
I will say i will miss being able to use the item editor in single player to test stuff with Jamilya ? (sp)