First of all, sorry for my poor use of vocabulary as English is not my mother tongue.
I am one of those players that used to play D2 twenty years ago, when I was a kid. I used to enjoy a lot, farming with my friends on the weekends, or after school, in the cybercafes where we used to go (as our homes were poor to own a computer, or pay monthly for a primitive internet conection).
I stopped playing in 2006, Finished school, went to college, moved 13000km away from home, start working, and yeah Welcome to the adult life.
I found with Diablo 2 Resurrected a chance, after 2 years of pandemic, of having a source to meet online with the friends I left back home, even considering the lag, and connection problems due to the distance. Last night after the servers went down, We could play (here it was about 2am) and we stayed playing until 5am, finishing nightmare acts. Getting objects, lvling up about 10-15 each. This morning, when I connected everything was gone. Back to the start of the act. Levels lost, quests lost, objects lost, Time lost.
My friends are now sleeping but probably will find the same as me.
I’m really disappointed with blizzard, and how they are treating the community. I tried to contact them and nothing. Just a bot, sending me to FAQs, or to technical issues. The only fair point I see right now, is asking for a refund, but I don’t want to, due to the friendships Diablo2 forged in the past and that I have back.
Probably I’m not the only one feeling the same. Probably most of you will tell me to shut up, and stop crying. Fair enough. I just needed to write this for myself. Hoping that someone will read it, and feel the same I felt today.
Thanks to everyone for reading even if you hate me
PS. I don’t care much about the progress. We can do it all again, as we do thousand of times farming. I don’t care much about the levels, quests, or objects. The thing that annoyed me is that there is not a single person in the Blizzard team that cares about the players. And it’s not the first time that they leave a whole community to die (OV as example)