What does the future hold for Diablo 2 Resurrected? Are there any plans to give D2r a fixed season length? It would be nice to see a balance to the runes used to make ‘mosaic’ as the cost is to cheap and it will effectively mean that to grind the leaderboards you will be required to play mosaic assassin or you WILL fall behind unless you are using some kind of 3rd party trading platform (against stated ToS). Is there going to be any sort of server maintenance/bot ban waves coming in future seasons? Updates/patches etc. Also, it would be nice if the season announcements were organized and announced a little sooner as teams looking to grind also have to organize themselves (time off work, kids etc.) It would be a breath of fresh air to see Blizzard show some level of respect for its loyal and paying customers.
Look at the original game… That is the future of D2:R.
All but the total abandonment of support for the game… Only updating it to keep it running on modern operating systems.
Nothing effective being done about the bots/spam bots, aside from the ~6 month banwaves that bans RMT bots, which of course they just auto-rebuy the game. Which is basically Blizzard collecting their “server rental fee” from what the RMT botters rake in from credit card warriors.
They permanently rid legacy bnet of the spam bots in 2017.
I hope they open to mods like PD2, and have pd2 with D2R graphics
I would propose a different perspective.
I’d argue, that lack of drastic changes is precisely what I love about D2.
Past 1.10 the changes are miniscule.
To me, that means, that the game feels complete. It means, that I can dedicate my time to actually enjoying the game, building characters and I know, that they’ll last.
I never understood the appeal of a fake @rse “live service” model, where you constantly change things for the sake of changing them and you’re effectively making the experience worse in the process.
Take for instance D3. If there’s any build diversity in that game, it’s only a relatively recent addition.
I remember playing RoS and working on various characters. And a patch or two down the line, instead of having my character be good and ready, I am having completely destroyed and irrelevant characters… and for the sake of what?
For the sake of the lame perception, that “the game is alive” (even with pathetically low active player count), at the expense of my experience with the game.
I don’t find such experience enjoyable, not in the least. I find it to be cheap and lame. I’d prefer if the game is left alone.
So true!
It is actually the most important part of what makes D2 great for me.
Well, I would argue that D2R got some BIG and important balance patches. Yet, not enough, but at least builds like Druid summoner are somewhat playable and fun.
Mosaic runeword ofc was a complete joke.
Yes they destroyed my experiecnce and my Hybrid Orb Sorc with 1.10 ;/
OK. Maybe they did that. But here are few fine distinctions:
How about we consider how long was that since the launch of LoD…
27th of June, 2001 was when LoD came out. LoD 1.10 came out 29th of October, 2003.
A massive patch, that introduced synergy bonuses, runewords and whatnot.
How many times did Blizzard do that throughout the years since then? Zero, unless you count D2R, and the changes are relatively insignificant.
Does D2 allow you to play offline on whatever patch you want? Yes, it does! If you’re a fan of 1.09, you can go and play that. And you can do so with friends via TCP IP with hamachi.
And that’s the base game. You can patch it up to whichever version you like…
If you want convenience, there are even third party mod managers for D2, that allow you to switch between patches easily.
If you’ve played D3: Reaper of Souls throughout the years since launch you’d know, that there were plenty of patches, that turned the game on it’s head and destroyed various builds, rendering them unplayable for years. Any and all build diversity is… like I said, relatively recent addition.
When it comes to D3, I’ve experienced a bunch of builds that I enjoyed per class, but at least throughout the first 5 years if not more, they were not viable at the same time. They’d be on completely different power levels.
The same is true to an extend up to this day.
When it counts, the game never provided a real choice and a real build diversity.
Can I play an older patch of D3 that I enjoyed, be it vanilla or RoS? No, I cannot. Because “muh live service, muh intellectual property”.
Probably a patch 2.8 to balance some stuff, like items, new rw’s, and the mosiac sin. Then they will put it in maintenance-mode. So and then a patch to fix stuff or so.
And expansion will do D2 no good because the original team is long gone.
I would applaud it coming to Steam, as well LoD, for achievements, TCP/IP and fully moddable like LoD. It can give them a little bit more cash. Then concentrate on D4… And eventually D5 or other games. But to be honest Blizzard is just one of these many bland companies only caring about its shareholders
100% this. Can’t stand change for the sake of change.
It’s like the swing on my porch, been there for 30 years. Been repainted the same shade of green 6 times. I don’t feel the need to “mix it up.”
Except there’s broken planks that were weak when you bought them and broke the first time you stepped on them, that you just patch with tape and don’t walk on and have to tell guests to not walk on.
Like.
Imagine if you play with your brother that’s new to Diablo 2.
He wants to play sorceress.
…like. How many warnings do you have to give him during the playthrough to ensure he doesn’t brick his sorceress?
He can’t get Inferno. Can’t have Glacial Spike as a primary skill. Can’t invest into Ice Blast or Ice Bolt unless he intends to use Blizzard.
Has to use Lightning or Fireball + Meteor as secondary skills if he wants Frozen Orb…
The skill system is unintuitive, still very unbalanced and incredibly unforgiving.
Itemization is better, but still – no barbarian until you find your first Lo.
Dude. What you’re saying is true to an extend however…
What does this have to do with the original thread and the topic of discussion?
The topic of discussion was along the lines of what’s gonna happen to D2, are they going to release new content. A fellow poster proposed, that the game will be maintained, but no drastic changes will happen.
I proposed, that this is a good thing, and also part of what makes the game appealing to me. I’ve listed various issues with how D3 played out throughout the years as a live service game, and why those cheapen my experience.
You are bringing up respect in D2…
Respec in D2 is already a thing… You have 3 free respecs in D2, and there’s also Token of Absolution.
Also, characters in D2 are much more disposable, at least those under 92. That’s something you can get relatively easily, within few days to a week of play…
If you’re proposing, that what D2 truly needs is free, unlimited respec, I’d say… would be nice for the noobs, but if it never happens – the game remains very much playable and it wont truly ruin the game.
Constant, table turning changes, while the build diversity remains poor, is what ruined D3 for me. Your game can’t reach a state, in which it feels somewhat complete and balanced after a freaking decade? Then your game sux and you’re bad at your jobs (that’'s what I’d tell the D3 devs)! Simple as that.
In contrast, D2 felt complete with 1.10.
LOL TCP/IP. It used to exist in original D2. D2R nerfed that.
Yep. I know that. Because Acti-Blizz didn’t want us run private servers.
A couple of runewords when they feel fancy.
Honestly I had the chance to experience it myself. I have fully decked out Trapsin for a while. I found some great 3 socket claws. Made two Mosiacs. Typed /Players 8. Checked every important area I could think of. Just melted everyone and everything. While it feels very powerful… This is not how I want to play Diablo 2, and what I want Diablo 2 Resurrected to become. It needs a huge nerf. ps. What an eyesore too. If these overpowered cheap runewords are the future in 2.8 then I am really sad.
The future is exactly what you see now. New ladder seasons (likely in time they will be recycled) but they may add a little bit per season but nothing big.
If you are expecting new content like acts, zones, bosses, etc. then you will be disappointed. This is just a remaster of a game not a brand new remake of D2.
Now, a full on remake of D2 like what Capcom did with RE 4 then that would be awesome.
Pretty much 3.
Pick Blizz/Orb/Nova/CL/Fireball, max it’s synergies and mastery.
Enough str to equip gear, rest vita.
I mean it’s not exactly rocket science. If 7 year olds can play pokemon, they can play D2 lol. People have to be almost willfully ignorant to “brick” a D2 character. A 15 second google search tells you all the basics. Nuance can come with time.
Even if they do “brick” it, it takes even bad players about 20 hours to level another character to 80, less if rushed, and good ones can do it in a handful of hours.
In a world without easily accessible online information, you might have a point. But bro, that world is long gone.
…“planks are broken and break when stepped on”
…“if you’re proposing that we stock up on unlimited bad quality planks and replace broken ones with broken ones when people fall through…”
…no.
The very contrary; remove the bad planks, and only have planks that can carry the weight of a character.
They can creak, croak, give in to the weight – not all of them needs to be as firm as the best, they just need to not break and have people fall through.