… for playing offline/single player characters with friends using their own offline/single player characters. This is especially important for mods where the chars are usually single player.
Or at the VERY least don’t ban people if they hack/mod the game files to enable TCP IP play again somehow, someone will hopefully sooner or later find a way.
(Context, they intend to remove TCP/IP
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23688836/play-diablo-ii-resurrected-during-the-early-access-and-open-beta?cmsMode=live)
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We’ll still have it on vanilla.
I know, but we don’t have the improved graphics and everything on the og d2lod
And that’s more or less the main selling point of D2R
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I understand that, but Blizzard has never given anyone permission to hack into D2’s game files and modify the game. In fact, their original ToS/ToU and the current EULA specifically say not to hack into the game files and modify the game.
And yet the mods are arguably a huge part in why we even get this remaster, they kept the game alive and interesting for a big chunk of players
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They didn’t keep the game alive, they drew players away from the actual game. Mods are not D2. The game has been kept alive by players who love either ladder, pvp or single player and the biggest communities that supported these mods is jsp (cringe) and diabloiinet, now called purediablo. Most mod users are actually really bad at the game and cannot compete on ladder or in pvp, nor are they good enough to play a single player character without hacks.
The only reason Blizzard used streamers that use mods is for the free advertising.
Blizzard allows you to have your illegal servers playing modified older versions of their game. Be grateful for that and accept you’ll never be allowed to mod in D2:R.
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Im not a big genius in these things, but how is TCP/IP connection a security issue to other players, connected to Battle.net?
D2:R black market item sales and fg sales on 3rd party websites are going to be in the millions of dollars in the first couple of years. They need to plug as many holes as possible to hold back the hackers.