Seriously… the hype is all but gone at this point. I was on the edge of my seat in December when Mr Llama had his little interview with Blizz devs and I actually believed we might get Ladder by the end of January or early February.
But as quiet and slow as this is… really losing faith that we could potentially see REAL NEW Endgame zones or changes to Diablo 2 sometime in the NEAR future.
At this rate, I don’t expect Ladder or 2.4 to arrive until May, yes May… I am not sure if they hope to sell new copies of the game when ladder releases. But for myself and many others who prefer NOT to stay indoors all summer and game, kinda disappointing that they have blown past the winter gaming months.
I want so many changes to Diablo 2 to breath new life into the game but even if it is a possibility to see an Act 6 or new zones, it won’t be until 2024 at the place they are displaying now.
Let’s be honest, 2.4 is not that big of changes to justify 4 months gone by since the Mr Llama announcement I mentioned before.
if you bought d2 “resurrected” to experience new content, you bought the wrong game. If you prefer not to stay indoors all summer and game, dont. New life is for D4, they dont need to ruin a classic game by trying to change or do too much to it.
I don’t think you can ever expect new content for D2R. If they were going to add more content, it would have been business wise for them to have done so before release of D2R. They could have marketed it as D2 with new content. If they release it later, it will be after all the initial hype. At that point, people who would have played D2R but didn’t because it had no new content won’t be paying attention anymore.
the devs probably won their job because of their diversity rather than merit
merit based devs probably were thrown in the no pile due to not ticking any boxes
this is what creates the type of business blizzard has become
i bet all their social media accounts have a spill about their pronouns
They should do these community streams more often. It definitely creates a positive atmosphere and keeps people interested in the game. That’s key for success these days.
Idk how much ladder is even going to matter when most players have all their character slots already filled up. Just delete your level 90 sorc in non ladder to…level another sorc? Delete your level 90 Uber smiter to…do it all again? Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy making characters over and over again, but I also enjoy, you know, keeping them. Imagine going to a job, making 200 dollars, but at the end of the day that 200 dollars disappears (and not because you spent the money, but just because it gets deleted for no good reason). How long would you keep going to your job, how long would you “keep playing”? Exactly. However, if you were able to keep that time investment you put in, suddenly you’d have no problem continuing to play/work. I know some people don’t care about their characters or time investment or anything, they’re more than happy to delete everything and start fresh no problem. That’s fine. But I wager that’s not the majority of players. I’d love to play ladder. I’d love to start fresh. I’d also love to keep the characters and play the characters and enjoy the characters I’ve put hundreds of hours into at this point. Unfortunately, Blizz forces me/us to choose which is more important. And for me, and probably for most…that means not being able to play ladder. Or, you know, give them another 40 dollars for 20 more character slots. I guess maybe that’s their intended “solution” to this, seems great for the shareholders or something…but for the players? For the playerbase? For the future of the game, and franchise? It’s not good at all. It’s pretty sad, honestly.
Here’s my internet sleuthing scoop of what is going on:
There haven’t been any updates to D2:R since March 15th according to Blizztrack.com with the highest version reported for vendor3 as 1.2.68740. So at this point, we’re likely waiting on Microsoft XBOX, Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Switch to approve and certify the patch.
With the bump of 1.1.xxxxx to 1.2.xxxxx, that to me means they have finalized the patch.
Blame the consoles!
Lets gooooo!!!
More info: Nintendo is probably the one holding up the process. From what I’ve found it looks like their certification/approval timeframe is two weeks. Microsoft and Sony are a lot quicker on their certification process.
So maybe we’ll know something on or shortly after March 29th!
Well, I’m sure there are some in the D3 community who have long waited for something else to do, many of whom are long time D2 fans. It’s not like they can’t blitz through D3 anyway with its lightning progression speeds and monsoon raindowns of legendary and set items, not to mention the easily obtainable Ramaladni’s gifts and the challenge rift cache right from the get-go which makes obtaining a level 70 weapon relatively easy at level 50, maybe even as early as level 40 if you’re lucky.
Then there’s Diablo Immortal coming, so a three-way split!
If it keeps getting put off/back then I guess have to go play little Lost A or P-E. At least they’ve had some up-dates. Worn out on D3 as much as I like it and this part of D2R beginning to drag, maybe D4 put out a big Beta. That would help an OLD retired a–ho-- like me pass time between honey do’s. Work more now at 74 than did at 50 when I got D1. Maybe I’ll go back to dark and grainy.
L8R players.
Was just considering starting to work through some of my single player games that have languished since I picked this one up last year. Online games don’t really do it for me anyway, and I got scammed more often than I had fair trades in public games since D2R’s launch.
Looks like I might finally start s_t 5 for that matter. It keeps looking at me from the tv stand, waiting for me to unwrap it…
Microsoft and Sony are a lot quicker on their certification process.
