Yep , blizzard to busy with sexual assault lawsuits they needed the money fast!!! Thats why we got an unfinished game, they never heard of early access titles i guess. They could and should have made this game early access but they needed money as they were in hot water and not a great year for them Launching D2 early probably saved them
Ok, Blizz why did you give us a complete Immortal King set on the WW Barb and he CANāT even Wear it! lol
Gotta love someone who is being super rude in the title and almost all of his posts complaining about other people being rude
The folks dealing with the lawsuits are not the ones making games. They have been rolling in money year after year for a long time. Profits were way up, esp with everyone home gaming during the pandemic.
I donāt know WHY they released in a way that certainly felt unfinished, but I doubt the two are related.
My actual guess is they needed a release to tell the Stockholders about for end of Q3. Diablo Immortal got delayed to add a lot to the game - and then they pushed D2R out the door. I have a feeling DI which was supposed to be out last year was due first, and D2R due around Xmas which met the end of 2021 goal they set at Blizzcon.
The alpha definitely was. The two betas were poorly managed and too short to give proper time for Vicarious Visions to react to what players found. Then having a stupidly short window between the last beta and release just compounded the issues and sent us into the abyss we had at launch.
I canāt really lay into Vicarious Visions given that they are new to how Blizzard works and the fact they got saddled with legacy spaghetti code that had to have things shoehorned into it and then had to deal with crunch after crunch after crunch. My beef is really with Blizzard proper, whom does have experience with launches, PTRs, BTRs, and ATRs. D2R has been mismanaged thus far and lack of proper communication and documentation has only compounded that problem.
I really, really miss Brandy Camel (Nevalistis). The current CMs are awesome people, but they arenāt using even half of the tools and formatting for blogs that she put in place to make things clearer for players and to be more readable in general.
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Please stop. The OP has chilled out and the back and forth about spelling/grammar is not really constructive. The thread did not start out on a good foot. The current chat about game stability and release schedules, test cycles, etc, seems reasonable.
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Yeah, if we were able to push to Pindle during the beta, even in NORMAL DIFFICULTY, we could have given them a taste of what was to come.
Hind sight is always 20/20.
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Something like that, they screwed us again long story short. I was the one dumb enough to give them my money and i knew this would happen. Just love D2 so much was hoping for a miracle, instead got what i expected. I still have hopes this can turn into a great game but we were all ripped off 60 bucks for sure . Again that is my own fault, its also my fault i believed there would actually be ladder in january. As for this PTR i thought i would at least be able to test the refresh button but i will leave this alone now
Blizzard did not make it clear what this PTR is all about for instance the launcher says, āthe next d2 patch is in development and ready for testing visit the forums to learn moreā no the new patch is not ready for testing what is ready for testing is the servers which will not get enough traffic to do a proper test as no one is testing the PTR lol. So because there is zero traffic on the servers everything will seem fine, once there is traffic who freaking knows but the traffic will not come until PTR 2.4 actually comes if it even comes then.
Chilled out maybe, but damage has been done, and I donāt see why I do not have the right to continue on.
which links to Diablo II: Resurrected | 1.12 - PC PTR Patch Notes
that clearly states what patch they are testing and what it is forā¦
here is a resource that i think could help a lot of people on the forum not calling out anyone in particular just trying to be helpful.
https://www.hookedonphonics.com/
yep forums and social media are a cancer to mental health for the most part. I been saying that since facebook came out, social media had potential to do good mostly done bad.
I do not think posting self help videos or whatever you linked there will help anyone though and has nothing to do with diablo 2
sad
some things are not taught in school any longer
they also gave a hammerdin a grief and COH , meanwhile his merc is rocking a etheral enigma LMAO 
I donāt know from what i seen here , you just supposed to log in a bunch of times and exit games all we are testing. I really do not think the servers will see enough traffic for anything relevant to happen with this test but i am not a game developer. Lets hope something good comes of this.
Did you forget to take your meds? Why are you flipping your lid? Read the description of the stickied post at the top of the general forum. This is far from a difficult concept to comprehend
Obviously someone have difficulty in reading.
Currently stuck at #204 in the queue after game crashed to desktop mid duel. Anyone else?
I think you will get better feedback about the PTR on the PTR feedback forums 
Others also report a queue.
If you have queue, it could actually mean that the amount of people who participated into this testing is waaaaaaaaay more than some emotional cry baby claimed it would be
ty was about to go looking for it.
finger cuffs on standby
LOL