my impression is that the community is/would be very divided which version should be it.
I for one wouldn’t touch 1.00 at all or find 1.07 very enticing.
Heh I wanted to play D2R around christmass with my friend , just to find out there are some stupid BUFFs whitch gave us different things…we straight logged off
Why do they have to bring those D3 events to classic game, is this really what D2 community wanted ?
They even destroyed D4 and made it D3 and now they doing it same to D2R ? At least we have D1 to play due to the gamepass…at least something
Assuming they made “classic” servers with older versions, it would cost them development time and maintenance of the servers. Thus, it would probably cost us extra. I wouldn’t mind paying extra but in Blizzard’s mind, I highly doubt they would think it is profitable. Though yeah,
1.06b server with dupe/bug fixes
1.09d server with dupe/bug fixes
Also, the ability to permanently move characters from the 1.06 server to the 1.09 server for those sweet pre-patch rares in 1.09.
I still play D2 LoD, it’s a better game than D2R. The only thing I like about D2R is the change to Throw Mastery. D2R is just hand-holding pig with lipstick on.
From what I’ve heard, the devs actually wanted to start D2R on 1.05 and do a new patch every ladder but higher ups at Blizzard said no. Whether or not that’s true though, there are no devs looking at what we have to say anymore. Though if they did make old patch servers for a fee, it would probably bring back a portion of the player base that has moved on temporarily. There are players who are interested in older patches for nostalgia. Question is would it actually be profitable for them to do so? Odds are, probably not.