Purists will kill this game early with their fear of change

[WhirLWinD-1213]

@MicroRNA-1507

My hope is that D2R players will broadly realize that giving optional choices will help the game be more appealing and engaging for the longterm by providing more options not less.

D2 purists are entitled to their opinion. If D2R has a toggable options to select features that make the game as similar to D2 as possible that it a good thing. D2 purists do not need to accept change for their game experience.

Back in the early 2000s, the D2 community which was far larger than what it is now was very vocal about wanting change. Some of the changes were adopted in patches while others not. Even to this day, the D2 modding community has stepped in to give player change that they desired to fix perceived issues in D2.

Certain options that are optional toggles are ok, but when everything becomes an option then everyone is not on the same playing field. One may have more advantage than the other. Everyone in D2: R should be on the same playing field. Either keep something the same as in D2, or change it. No need for too many optional toggles. As far as mods there is a reason why they are only used in Open Battle.net. Closed Battle.net, especially Ladder characters, are made to be on the same playing field as everyone else. Mods may make the game more easier, and more diverse, but that is why they are restricted to Open Battle.net.