I’m an OG player from Diablo 2’s original release. I have enough experience with the game and am familiar enough with the game’s development history to know a few things:
This game was abandoned by the original team in 2003 when Blizzard North collapsed, months before 1.10 was even finished by mostly a single remaining person.
The game has already drastically been changed by “other people” since then, so “purity” left the conversation like a decade and a half ago.
There’s no reason a team as good and respectful to D2 as the D2R team shouldn’t take ownership and improve this game we all love.
If you really have some weird obsession with 1.14d (a completely arbitrary post-1.10 patch) or some other version, you can always play the original game with something like the Cactus Launcher to pick your favorite pet version.
I’m stoked for these updates. This game deserves a good team to take ownership like this.
I mean, they way you worded it made it seem like they only listened to a few casuals that started to play with D2R. That’s not accurate, they sent out polls to all kinds of people and it seems like the majority of the community wanted changes.
They gave the answer: “four different Ladder modes”
This.
And a little preview:
“Set Item changes will update underperforming Set Items, to have more bonuses, giving players more incentive to pursue Partial and Full set items that can complement the skill changes alluded above. Lastly, new Rune Words will be added to complement the Skill and Mercenary changes coming in the update.”
I played when the game came out in 2000 as well, and well into the later patches of the expansion. I liked the game then, I like it now, but i’m also not so snobbish and short sighted that I can’t see the game couldn’t use some updates for modern gameplay.
lets be honest here, most people who spend the time to actually do those polls are not the ones who have been playing these games the whole time. Blizz is infamous for hiding those things in dark corners and then acting all shocked when the product flops. But enjoy D3 2.0 as the game will soon be getting changes every other week and before you know it you are playing D3 just with a diff face
Well they dont share your definition of core game. They invited llama to discuss about changes. And he is supporting /player8 for online so its not impossible.
The op is ignoring other veteran players who speak against his cause, completely in his own ignorant mind. Don’t pay any attention to this crap, I say.
Well I personally never received a poll like you mentioned. D2R is probably too new, but not even once in my D3 career. After seeing what happened to D3, I don’t have high hopes for D2R in terms of changes.
Been playing since summer of 2000 and I’m one of the players asking for changes, even if those changes take place in a mode other than classic/LOD/hardcore and is segregated as it’s own game type.
One word solved this - mods. Mods mods mods. Where are the mods?
Without mods that og d2 had your only choice is put everything Anyone dreams up into the game. Multiple versions of the game.
