Blizz please hear us out, this is a great idea, and it would be great for the company image.
Whoever planned to buy D2R already has it or will not buy it as it is.
The game is on full maintenance mode now.
Nothing new will be released.
You have nothing to gain by keeping TCP/IP from us, on the contrary, the game WILL sell more.
Let us play as we want, let us mod and have new adventures on this great game.
Also, D4 is bad (for me).
Letâs break it down real quick.
This wouldnât be great for the company image. Out of the 1000 people that are into D2 maybe 2 of them will use it. The two of you will not brag enough to your 10 facebook friends to ever modify the image of anything ever.
And while youâre right that honestly even when it first dropped I think everyone was going to buy it who bought it and you might as well have had TCP/IP in the game, it no longer makes sense to appease you by hiring coders to add that in or wasting effort so 2 people can play their ideal mode. And no the game will not sell more because of TCP/IP, there will be ZERO sales from this addition. Not to mention the loss paying to code it.
I´d like to see it done, for the sake of fun and to see what modders can do, and play online with mods.
But i guess Blizzard may want to keep the playerbase âas undivided as possibleâ to keep a somewhat âhealthyâ online population, trade and such.
Yeah, I lost hope a long time ago unfortunately. The hope was misplaced from the start, this sort of stuff doesnât come back once itâs taken away in the first place.
On the bright side thereâs pserver architecture that went public nearly a week ago, the community took it into their own hands as expected.
Thatâs where youâre wrong pal, I have 11 facebook friends.
Also, Blizz will be praised for giving the player base something they want and the code is already done. And selling even 1 copy of the game is better than nothing.
Whose alt are you?
Praised by who? The 4 people who want it, youâre financially not worth the effort. Not only that but again theyâre not selling any extra copies because of it, and in no way would 1 copy or even 10000 copies being sold be worth developing the TCP/IP infrastructure.
NOT what we are looking for at all.
I never bothered with project diablo, not of my tastes. Median did update iirc, but most everything from those patches wasnât used, removed etc. Plus that mod is so vastly different from the core, it really doesnât matter what they choose to use any more.
My thought written in words.
100% agree i mean you formulized it very well and i am complete support this.
TCP IP disable was the worst thing what blizzard did.
there wouldnât need to be any development, they had it already implemented in the alpha. im upping this again, tcp/ip needs to be reimplemented. the only reason they took it out was for pirating fears. you can hear in Rob Galleraniâs interview regarding that topic that he was resentful regarding that topic, he probably feared less revenue cause on reddit people were calling for pirating boycotts during that time. He also said the fans would have to reimplement it themselves,meaning it is possible. the majority of the sales has already been made, VV made a mistake hoping the modders would be able to do it, so im asking, REIMPLEMENT TCP/IP sothat modders can have multiplayer function. without multiplayer mods are dead and diablo 2 r suffers longevity.
100% Agree
I vouch for that.
As it doesn´t seems the game may get any major updates ever, it would be nice to let people create their own online games and be able to mod it, so it can be kept alive like some other D2 classic projects.
+1. They need to let this happen so that the PD2 team can take over development since Blizzard has abandoned the game. The mod requires a copy of the game anyways.
An individual who only cares about green paper has a very predictable mindset, they got rid of open battlenet and TCP/IP so that they can control the online section of the game, they really donât want multiplayer mods and other content to rival their future paid content.
When people mention cheating as a legal reason i laugh and remember that right now you can buy 1000 ber runes for for 5 bucks online in ladder, or how about all the bots and spammers iâm not even mentioning d2jsp here, they donât really give a damn about cheating unless it is hurting their wallet.
But hey, theyâre only shooting themselves in the foot, this just gives customers more reason to go back to d2 which has a major modding scene that can enjoyed in local multiplayer.
Will be great for us poor poor modding enthusiasts 
Since all the forum trolls use the excuse âthis game doesnât make moneyâ for Neo-Blizzardâs extreme negligence then I suppose TCP/IP and modding no longer threatens their bottom line and they should do the correct thing and re-implement TCP/IP as they advertised that it would be included to begin with.