I hate the idea of 2.4! QoL only improvements they said, right? What a joke- implementing so many changes in a classic game. I thought the idea of this ‘resurrection’ is to keep it as close to the vanilla old school game as possible with modern graphics.
If Blizzard or what’s left of them thinks this will increase the number of players playing D2R, I strongly believe they’ve made a terrible mistake. I have played Diablo before 1.09, LOD expansion, probably before developers/youtuber like Mr. Lama knew what D2 is… and I would hate to say it, but to me it seems they are turning this classic into something it has never been.
If people want a different game with changes to class skills (balances/tweaks lol) they can wait for Diablo IV or play Diablo III.
From my humble experience Diablo 3 is a joke compared to Diablo 2, so please keep your developers’ little fingers away from a classic old-school Blizzard game. Having said all this I will still purchase Diablo IV and give it a go, but unfortunately, considering all the remasters and new games Blizzard made since D2 LOD and classic WoW did not turn out great-what would be the chance of D4 being any different???
P.S.
Dear Santa: I wish 2.4 was some weird fake youtuber news and never existed!
People have been asking for balance changes for years, not only here, but in the old D2 forums as well. Changes have already happened with the game compared to first release, just go look at the patch notes for 1.10.
The core game is staying the same. Still gotta quest and level up… Still gotta do magic find runs to get better gear… They’re just opening up some more builds by buffing underwhelming/unused skills.
If you want the game frozen in time, the original game is still up and running.
Precisely. This is exactly the type of changes the community was asking before Blizzard stopped supporting the game with patch 1.14.
There is a misconception that purists don’t want the game changed. We do, in line with what we have always been asking. Diablo 2 is far from a perfect game. And the post-LoD work on it has been heavily criticized, patch after patch. Heck, this is the game that generated the “Working as intended” meme! That’s the type of BS we had to put up with.
So please, don’t come here making it look like the Diablo 2 community wants this game as it was! We are purists, not uncompromising fools.
I’m pretty sure they said they were only looking at quality of life changes for initial release and would go from there based on feedback. They made no promises to only make qol changes. Besides as others have said, people have been asking for updates/fixes to the game since forever. You are basically just asking them to abandon D2R like D2 was abandoned. No thanks.
D2R already had changes when you bought it. Even the D2 LOD was never promised to not have any further changes. If you want the game stuck in time, then you can still play it.
Skill Trees haven’t been removed and turned into “talents”
Rune Words and Runes are still existent
Gem System is completely different
No Blacksmith to “upgrade” to craft items
No “enchantress” to use to change attributes
Sets are completely different
D2R is nothing like D3, and they’re both inherently different games, even with 2.4 improvements.
It´s a shame - we just wanted the “Classic gameplay—the same Diablo II you know and love, preserved”.
Well, in the end most people will sooner or later quit and go back to LoD, as sad as it is, since the graphics and the minor QoL feature were fantastic.
Sparka, could you be so kind to forward a link or official release of information that after the release they plan to start changing the game something else? Many thanks
Seriously, you accepted a terms of use that the game may be updated at any time for both D2R and D2LOD. It’s not a scam if you ignore well known details. No one is obligated to put a Goodyear Blimp in the sky for you.
Besides, 2.4 isn’t even out yet. The changes are not yet chiseled in stone, they could be changed depending on how the upcoming PTR testing goes… How could you possibly know that you don’t like it? You said you liked the 1.10 changes… Were you at all skeptical about the 1.10 changes prior to playing 1.10? That was a huge list of changes that was brought to the game. It’s been a while, but I still remember reading through them and feeling overwhelmed with all of the changes, wondering what builds wouldn’t work anymore. (RIP NovaSorc)
I worry about our society today as this has gotten MUCH worse than it used to be.
People think every thought that comes out of their head is a golden love child, and anyone who thinks anything differently is evil and wrong.
No one actively “seeks” out the truth anymore, they JUST KNOW what they know at the first instant. When performing their due diligence to “research” whatever it is they are talking about they only look for things that support their perspective.
It honestly saddens me as it leads to so much negativity and strife as opposed to community and cooperation.
I think it’s important to remember that the team working on D2R loves this game just as much as we do (maybe a little less cause it’s like…their job) and they have been listening to feedback. Let’s reserve judgment until we see the changes in action. Who knows, if they really are terrible maybe we can get them to reverse some of the bad ones.
Dude u do not understand the idea of patch 2.4 , it was going to be implemented long ago in D2 , but Since D2 Runs on old server they were not able to do those changes there !
It is a patch for boosting unused skills and builds , build and skill which no one currently use as much as Hammerdin or Blizzard sorc !
They will provide new runewords for boosting those skills and builds + buffing the needed skills nad synergis!
No one will break your current gameplay , skills and build ! You can still go for your 15 K dmgs hammerdin and kill out the sh*t !
No one will nerf your teleportation or Blessed hammer damage !
No one will remove your +1 to teleport from Enigma!
u can still use eveything u used till now !
But players want to to try some new end build which they always dreamed witout sacrefising character’s Life and resist for damage!
