Because it is a stupid question that only you think is valid. It’s like me asking you why a hedgehog can’t fly and then demanding you explain it, it’s just a stupid question. However, against my better judgement, I’ll bite.
V1.01 to V1.14 IS diablo 2, and apart from minor things, it changes very little… and then along you come and say “well, if those horrible purists were okay with tiny bug fixes, surely they can’t complain about personal loot, hand shake pvp, mounts, wings, transmogs, microtransactions, pets, new acts, new modes and rifts… those stupid purists, oh we got them now!”… That is how you come across to me.
It is a valid question. D2/D2:LoD has changed as a function of time. If the claim is D2/D2R is a masterpiece that should not be modified significantly, which patch is the best incarnation of that masterpiece?
You have a thousand games out there that have what you are looking for, but you won’t play them, instead, you are here, demanding changes to a game that doesn’t have what you are looking for.
The subject of radically changing D2R to suit yourself is such an obsession for you, that you are setting yourself up for a serious fall with this game, that’s why I implore you to play D3, it has all that watered down stuff you are demanding, but you won’t play it, instead you come here and try to force changes.
No, intend matters. Changing the original game years later, with the purpose of updating it for a remaster, is not remotely keeping the game as it was. That is the Warcraft 3 Reforged way.
And I am not saying D2R should be kept as D2 was. Have two realms, one with 1.14 forever after, and another with changes. Problem solved.
but again you will have factions of purists asking for 1.07 realm, 1.08 realm, 1.09 realm, 1.10 realm, but thats wouldnt anymore be the problem of those with a brain that enjoy improvements
If we are lucky, those previous patches might be playable offline, if modders can restore them. Like they are in current D2 => perfectly remastered in that sense too I cant open D2 up now and play 1.07 on closed battlenet either.
So there were 0 game changing content patches from 2005 to 2010. Five years after Blizzard North shut down. So you know what that means, my tin foil hat was right. There weren’t Diablo 2 devs sitting at a desk getting paid to do nothing during that time. Whoever it was was working on WoW at the time. And they come back 5 years later to patch D2 with questionable changes.
If I had to choose a sweet spot for D2, it would be 1.11, since that was done in 2005, right after a major game balancing patch.
It’s more valid to me because that was Blizzard North in their prime (well 1.09 was I guess). Kind of like Anderson The Spider Silva in his prime during his UFC reign.
1.15 is still a valid patch to me as long as it’s community motivated and heavily regulated the same way Riot Games treats League of Legends, with integrity and respect for the piece.
Blizzard didn’t give a rats a** about Diablo 3. That’s what happens when a game dev just simply doesn’t give a good god damn.
I think VV is different than Blizzard. They can be trusted to do a good job that serves everyone in the community.
everything after 1.09 wasnt made by Blizzard North, it was made by Blizzard Ent, North stopped working onD2 on 1.09 as they were working full time on D3
so if your basis for “the true diablo 2 version” is Blizzard north, everything after 1.09 is invalid somwhat
this thread sounds like a excuse to pollute Diablo 2R with unnecessary changes.
I have played diablo since 1.09 or a bit before, cant remember, but even i didnt like some of the newer changes.
Just because they did changes in D2 doesnt mean they should go overboard with changes in D2R, you see how people like/dislike D2 patches.
Now people want even more changes… doesnt sound good to me.
Do the people that want drastic changes actually want this game to be like D2 at all? or do they just want something like D3(in D2 skin) easy going ARPG that gives you stuff for little effort?
Leave D2R be, we will get D4. we will get loads of changes you can even play Diablo Immortal if you want changes!
I cant open D2 up now and play 1.07 on closed battlenet either.
you can even play Diablo Immortal if you want changes!