Never realised D3 had gated content
yeah. Transmogs, extra stash tabs. Plus whatever the season buff is.
Quite a bit of stuff really. Which is why most people do seasons.
Hey. That’s me in that twitter comment 
I’ll be playing the first ladder when it launches, and probably a good many after that. I’ll also be playing non-ladder at game launch. For me, the appeal of ladder is the fresh economy. The brand new game will have that, so I’m good.
As for when they’ll announce it? That will have to wait until they get all the launch issues sorted, and there’s no way to tell how long that will take until it happens.
totally agree
will be another trial period and at some point, we will get the announcement for first ladder reset too!
There’s no point of play ladder anymore, who cares when it start.
fresh economy? you have it in no ladder on the release, so just ignore ladder for 6 months or 1 year, there’s 0 incentive to play it besides fresh economy.
Oh, I thought the ladder begins as long as they release the game. Seems like ladder starts later on.
Why is wanting to know when ladder starts being ungrateful? Many players play ladder exclusively, would be nice for many to know when they can start going hard in the $60 game they rebought after 20 years, no?
It’s more of a question why people should start playing ladder so soon. It seems like a lot of people will because that’s what they are used to, but there is no point depending on how soon it is.
A ladder 2 weeks in is not a fresh start. 99% of players won’t be geared by that point anyways. All that ladder offers now is a race to 99 that barely a fraction of a percentage of people who buy this game will reach. I’ve played this game nearly my entire life and I’ve probably only reached level 96 before starting something new or a new ladder season.
What, a new prime evil has appeared… Odin, Lord of Ignorance!
For real though, they’ve given plenty of justification the delay. They’re making sure the game runs and is stable so ladder isn’t a clownfiesta.
Give it a rest and go develop some patience and understanding. Kthxbai.
This is something I’m struggling with: how much time do I invest in playing D2R in a way I never played D2?
The change of ladder-only items moving to non-ladder was a bigger disappointment to me than the breach of promise on TCP/IP, etc. My old guild had 30 members at its apogee in 2008. Ladder-only and religious about it. I’ve contacted every single one but could not get a single one of them to buy, let alone look closely at D2R.
Makes me wonder if people are expecting the nostalgic sales pitch to perform much better than it will? I hope not, but I’m concerned a poor-showing in sales/player retention would make Blizz believe it’s maintenance dollars should be spent elsewhere and we’re left with a buggy, albeit beautiful game.
While I agree that at the beggining everything is fresh just like the first Ladder season but I also want to know when the actual Ladder will start.
I am not interested in playing non-ladder because after few months trade will slow down and eventually non-ladder will have everything for “free”
Trading is way too big deal in D2 for me.
This is why I only played ladder - to constantly refresh the “loot hunt.” D2 is a loot-finding game, so without that challenge, there’s really not more more incentive to keep grinding/playing, except for dueling for some I suppose. Something I found annoying.