Free Classic Diablo 2 with D2 R?

I’m pretty bored with this season. I’ve been watching some Diablo 2 streams and build guides late to kill time and i’m starting to get excited about Diablo 2 again. I DID pre-order Diablo 2 Resurrected, or rather upgraded my prime evil edition. I was wondering - since D2:R is D2 with a 3D wrapper - can you unlock Diablo 2 for us?

I seriously have no idea what happened to my original copy. It’s been like 20 years. It would be fun to get back up to speed on the game before its released.

If they were getting rid of D2 (2000) and LoD (2001), they probably would make it free.

However, they are not getting rid of it or changing it. They are leaving the game and support for it (servers, ladders), as is. They view it as two different products - both of which have a sales value.

Maybe they could do a discount sale on the older ones? Maybe? That is more likely than a free give away.

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I’m not saying free, lets not get too crazy :wink:

My idea is more to slap it into the Prime Evil Edition. Or to give a CD key to people who pre-ordered Resurrected.

I def. do not want the two communities to merge. lol

Which is asking for it to be free.

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You aren’t saying it should be free, they should just give it to people who pre-order.

For free.

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Yup.

@OP, sorry you lost your key but too bad. Go buy the game.

it dont even cost much as it is :upside_down_face:

It isn’t even for sale on the battle.net app lol

Diablo® II (2000) - Diablo II: Resurrected | Battle.net Shop

Diablo® II: Lord of Destruction® (2001) - Diablo II: Resurrected | Battle.net Shop

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OP’s request isn’t as unreasonable as many here try to make it sound. Since D2R players are highly unlikely to acquire D2, and D2R options are supposed to make both the gameplay and graphics identical to D2 if you want to, it’s not unreasonable to make the request that they bundle immediately D2 with the preorder so that players can get in the mood.

View it as a commercial gesture.

OP isn’t being unreasonable at all. Yall are just rolling with whatever as usual.

No, it actually kinda does. $40 for a tune-up of a 20+ year old game is what’s unreasonable, especially for those of us that already own DII and LoD and have them attached to our modern accounts. I also own DIII, RoS, and RotN which are the entire rest of the $60 bundle, and getting $10 off of it for that doesn’t impress me either. Actizzard is being greedy.

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Imo if the game is so old it isnt even sold in the app, it should be free. :wink:

Well, they still sell D2 (2000) and LoD (2001). Avalon linked you to the proper place in the Bnet Shop.

They even sell Diablo 1 via partnership with GOG on the GOG site.

Not saying they should do that, but that is by definition not for free.

It would make decent sense for Blizzard to do this.
Except, which I assume is the main reason, they dont really want more people to go play D2 before D2R releases, and realize they dont want the game anyway :joy:

Sure it is. He’s not asking to pay a premium for D2R to get a D2 key. He’s asking for it to given away for free with the normal price of D2R.

I see the website links. I mean via the bnet app like every other game.

The old Classic games are not not on the Launcher because they are nto connected to Modern Battlenet infrastructure. Only the games that are newish, or have Remastered versions, are on there.

D2 still uses the old Bnet system so uses its own launcher. The launcher DOES link you to the store though if you want to use the link there to get to the web store to buy D2 (2000).