As somebody who wants a straight remaster, here’s my take. I don’t care what they do from the game past remaster and initial patching. Make improvements, rebalance, whatever, but always keep 1.14 as an option. Since I play mostly SP I think that will always be D2 to me. I’ll dabble in and play whatever they come up with, but it would keep everybody happy if you keep the base and then the current version.
I understand where you’re coming from and I respect the opinion but you have to look at it in a different way. You have “classic” “soft core” “hardcore”. That’s already 3 different player bases. Now you add ladder and non ladder, that’s two separate things as well. It divides the player base way too much. You basically have 5 mini games in one. And then if you had no changes and changes realm, that’s even more separation of the player base. This isn’t like wow where you can have 50 different servers with 50 different types of economy. It just isn’t that type of game.
exactly which will force those against the changes back too D2lod if they can’t stand the changes.
You make a great point and I agree with you. I should have clarified that I want 1.14 as an option for SP. I don’t think it’s practical for online play.
In comparison to the D2/D2:LoD PC battlenet currently, do you expect there will be more players for D2R on modern PC battlent?
If you had to guess, how much more? 5X? 10X? 50X? 100X?
The first week there will probably be a lot more than any of us can think of. The second week will probably be 3/4 that. By the first month, when people realize they’re not going to get 99 no matter how hard they try or how hard they mf to get that jah, I suspect 50% will quit the before the first ladder is even done.
You can’t compare current bnet, you would want to compare the player base before public bots were a thing. When real players played.
I am asking a different question. Let’s say the numbers from 2020 pre-D2R announcement (either total or if you prefer only legitimate players) and let’s say 9 months after D2R release for legitimate players?
Personally, I assume D2R >> D2/D2:LoD. But by how much?
Honestly I really don’t even know what you’re trying to ask me, can you rephrase it in a different way? From reading it, I am under the assumption you are asking me how many more people are going to be playing d2r on the new bnet compared to the people from Diablo 2 LOD bnet? Is this correct?
Well with computers being a lot easier to get a hold of, as well as affordable internet now. I would say an easy 10x more players from day 1. But let’s see how many of those players actually stay, my guess is 30-45% of the player base will quit after realizing they aren’t going to finish their characters even in 6 months play time.
Totally agree
people should stop fighting each other over how the game should be and just unite their voice and ask an option for both ideology
That way everybody is happy, purists have their nostalgia and changists have their improvements
Sadly there are people so entrenched in the ideology that they don’t even want other to have it their way even if it doesn’t even affect them
Let’s try this:
- How many players played D2/D2:Lod in 2020 on PC battlenet?
- How many players will play D2R in 2022 on modern PC battlenet?
I know that we do not know precise numbers but I am just curious what you would predict. For example will there be 5X (or 10X or 50X or 100X) more players for D2R in 2022 than D2/D2:Lod in 2020?
Well it wouldn’t be LOD 2020. It would be like Diablo 2 in 2010 or 2011. But honestly I have no idea because we live in a whole different time now than we did back then. Even people that wanted to play couldn’t because of restrictions. Now everyone and their mothers have computers at home so I would like to say easily 5x more players. I know what you’re trying to get it, basically saying we’ll have the player base for them to be able to split up the community even across 10 servers.
If we are talking about non-bot players
Crank that multiplier in the thousands
There will be at least a million players for D2R while current bnet human population must be in the single thousands max
It’s impossible to predict that I think. I’ve been wondering about the player base myself recently. The amount of copies D3 sold surprised me when I found out.
This I mean -
Would answering “A lot more” be good enough? 
It could be that D2R is really popular and sell’s millions of copies like D3 did.
to be fair though if the servers really are global like they said they are removing 4 more break points over d2lod in that it wont be US West, US East, Europe, and Asia servers any more. So adding 1 more back in would still be half as small of communities as it has been in d2 since 1.10 even with the same number of players.