Season two in week,who is excited? 
i am but i didnt find any EU SC group to start with yet. Ladder start at 02:00 will be rough lol.
I would like to finish grail on battle net for the first time next season and stsrt pvp after. What are your goals for season 2?
Iām not excited and I dumped my goals for s2.
Probably gonna watch some paint dry.
Iām excited =)
I skipped ladder 1 as I didnāt really see much of a point and I was too busy anyways. Now - I am excited for both SC and HC season 2 as I am enjoying the TZs and Iām interested to see how charms do for some less powerful elemental based builds by bringing more options of farming locations and TZs
Wonāt be āracingā or anything but D2R will be my main game until the end of the year at least
Iām readyā¦ Lets gooooooo!!!
I want sander charm s2
I will run a sorc or pally in classic as usual.
Weāll see how it goes.
Ladder Season 1 was a joke:
Ladder Season 2:
The game is in a great state right now for ladder racing. It still needs a modern ranking system to incentive more people to join in.
Lobby system needs work as well. I want to be able to chat with more players, swap lobbies, and be able to block all bots.
My goals are to do some charm hunting in the new TZāsā¦both Sunder and the high level mods on SCās.
Goals: Just try to enjoy myself, find high runes (Season 1 failed at that), find a Sunder Charm (or a few). Hadnāt played Summon Druid from scratch, so starting with that (pure zoo to start, hybrid Fury/Wolves+Grizz at end).
Honestlyā¦ not too excited.
Sparsely populated Terror Zones experience upgrade are a decent addition for 99āers but cater to a minority of players.
Sunder Charms cater to a majority but it is the āonlyā change; albeit a major one (and bug fixes).
Soā¦ I will skip this season and wait for more quality of life upgrades in 2.6, along with hopefully more balance changes and possibly new runewords.
Enjoy 2.5!
This game is a good remake of an old game made for fans of the genre and originalā¦with that said, I donāt understand why people are expecting so much change and care to be put in. Apparently yall are young because back in my day a game came out and that was it; you got what was made.
Blizzard sold copies of this game and is now making ZERO money from continued work on the game. You all should be thankful they even do the things they do because technically they have zero reason to do so outside of bug fixes.
Everyone is so ungrateful these days, darn young generation.
Correction 
, they are making a lot of money off the banning and sales of bots rebuying the game. Without our continued interest the bots wouldnāt have a need to continue buying copies of the game.
Fairly disingenuous. Weāre talking about a PC game with online multiplayer support, not some console game back when barely any consoles had online support (at least those that most normal consumers owned). The original base game was updated post-launch, with the expansion being launched originally as 1.07 (1.08 at retail launch iirc day one patch).
Then you had 1.09 within like a year, and 3 years after base, 2 years post expansion, 1.10, with 2 additional content/balance based patches over the next 7 years. Pretty darned good for a game that was just given to you back in your (and mine) day.
Diablo 2 was never really a boxed product.
Hell, if consoles were online back in the day, imagine games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat could have just been patch dlc-ed.
Yeah, but they donāt HAVE to do any of that, they choose to. I have seen many released games come out and that was it. They could easily make games, sell them, and then peace out.
Like with diablo 4 coming out soon, why would they waste resources on diablo 2? All I am saying is at some point, blizz will just start doing all the suggested stuff people are making suggestions on and crash the game. There is a reason parents say no to children, itās not that we hate them, but we know what is bestā¦
Right now blizz is just giving kids what they ask for and working on other stuff in the meantime. To hell with the games future.
Which is something I said last year when people were so hell bent on believing Blizzard would put the game into maintenance mode after launch other than bug/stability fixes. Blizzard supports their games post launch. This has generally been their PC gaming culture. Diablo 1 even had post-launch support, granted all towards bug fixes and compatibility issues, but some were gameplay issues patched. Diablo 3 was constantly updated up a patch to ready the game for expansion, and continues to receive updates.
Everyone kept chanting āThey got your moneyā¦ā as reason to not update the game. They are still updating D3, despite D2R and now DI having been released. Itās Blizzardās culture, as gamers themselves, despite the Activision overlords.
See I would have backed them in the past, but the last 5 years of their company track record has been ALL about makin moneyā¦just look at how they banned over 100,000 accounts then put the game on sale. It did not solve any problem at all, bots are still botting, people are still buying forum gold on D2JSPā¦
With that aside, I am sure they keep the games alive because games will still sell here and there especially with new players coming and goingā¦but look at diablo 3 nowā¦its been year after year of power creep and raising the GR capā¦its really a bad game at its core, lol. I mean I have fun on it from time to time, but there is a reason I came back to diablo 2 as soon as it releasedā¦because it is great.
Unfortunately, they will tweak D2R into the ground overtime as well to get sales and appease newbies who want a quick fix. This game will ends up garbo over time unfortunately.
Primary example: World of Warcraft.
Didnāt wrath of the lich king just releaseā¦again? lol.
This isnāt necessarily limited to Blizzard, no matter how many Bobby Kotik yacht jokes you make. There was Capcom games I refused to buy on PS3 due to day 1 DLC character unlocks. The entertainment industry has been the same now for years; Streaming platforms have exponentially expanded after the success of Netflix, and have bloated themselves out of subs. The Hobbit movies, which should have been contained to two movies, was bloated to 3 in the name of money, etc.
Hence why D4 will not have free trade. D3 tried to fill the JSP role, and failed. This was always going to be the destiny of D2R from the moment that they announced that the loot system would not be modernized.
It did not have to be. They could have released D2R, did more class balance checks, and effed off. End of story. When you do a remake, you remakeā¦like all other remakes before.
That is the entire point of a remake.
Case in point : Classic WoW. That is doing great for a reason.
Yeah season 1 start sucked, thats why i am excited about second as we have some stuff fixed finaly.
But damn some peoppe here are way too salty 