OP would you make a blog please? I’d really like to keep a closer look at your daily goings on. If possible, please add a video diary so that I might also know what other whims you follow?
Thanks!
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Nice sarcasm.
In exchange I’d like it if you could call me “my lord”. It would keep me humble, I think.
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I prefer My Liege. Will that suffice?
I guess it can’t be helped. Do it if you must.
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Muling is not forbiden. Blizzard just don’t officially support it, but they never said it’s forbidden, or that its’a bannable offence.
You are just not allowed to go in and out of games too fast, and if you do so – you can get locked out of battle net for certain amount time, that’s all.
Here is their actual stance on the matter on The Arreat Summit:
xxhttp://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/basics.shtml
What is Blizzard’s policy on transferring items between characters or “muling”?
The transferring of items between Diablo II characters is not supported by Blizzard. Users should be warned that attempts to transfer items between characters online are risky and Blizzard is not responsible for lost items. Storage space is limited in Diablo II both for performance and storage space issues and because the designers wanted players to make decisions as to which items to keep and which items must be thrown away or sold.
Keep in mind, another big difference between D2 and D3 is, that mods are allowed.
You can instal a plugy and have infinite stash space as well as ladder only runewords, Uber Tristram and Diablo clone on Single Player. You can single player and multiplayer with that mod. I’ve played with a friend and it works damn fine.
I wouldn’t say they’re allowed since just having the mod installed basically means you can’t play on battle.net with that client or else you’ll be banned (assuming the mod allowed you to connect to battle.net without changing the game in that particular mode). Which is why they often have their own private servers (at least median xl and pod do).
You are wrong. Yes, you can. It works like this:
I have this launcher called D2SE.
It allows me to play LOD, from 1.07 to 1.13c. (maybe it is patched and allows newer versions, but I wouldn’t know), and I can also enable plugy.
You can also install mods like Eastern Sun, and you can launch that too.
To play 1.14d over battle net I use the regular shortcut for the game.
But it is all in the same installation folder. Inside the main folder, there areI don’t need to have multiple different versions of the client in order to play the different versions, mods and so on.
The private servers of D2 that I know of serve a different purpose, usually, because they wanna play in environment different than battle net.
But if moding wasn’t allowed (which seems to be your thesis, evne though Blizzard never said that, and if I look, I’ll probably find their statement, that they do allow mods, just not over battle net), you do realize, that Blizzard would be shutting those private servers down, right?
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But that means you’re using different clients. You can’t just do it all in one client, it’s a bannable offense if you try to connect to battle.net with a modded client. It says so in the license agreement.
What would they gain by spending money pursuing private servers that barely get 100 people in them? They would have to go after all the WoW and Starcraft 1 servers as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about mods. I think the modders have done more for these games than Blizzard ever will. Just look at the people who reverse engineered Diablo 1’s code and made it possible to port it for the Switch
mcdonalds sells more than any other fast food chain.
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How come I have played on EU battle net for years, and yet I haven’t been banned?
What client am I supposed to be using? By all means, if Blizzard want, they can ban me, I’ll be playing Single Player then with plugy.
I’ve never heard of someone being banned for using D2SE. Seems crazy.
And it also seems to me, that you’re perceiving Diablo too much from a WoW PoV.
Back in Wrath of the Lich King, they didn’t even ban obvious global cooldown hackers. The hack consisted of an extra MPQ file, which was pasted inside the WoW folder.
I can understand them banning people for something like that, but I doubt they’ll ban you based on the folder. They’ll ban you based on the fact, that classes like Warrior, Death Knight, Hunter were doing like 40% extra DMG.
On D2 battle net, I doubt they care what’s in my folder as long as I’m not cheating, which they’ll detect on their end. If I get banned for that, I’ll be sure to let the community know.
True, because they’re also present in more countries and places than any other fast food chain.
Just like D3 is present in more platforms than any other ARPG.
Solid argument, I agree.
1.14d vanilla client. You can use D2SE to switch to it. Then you’re playing unmodded. D2SE isn’t a mod, it’s a mod manager.
“any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that can be used in connection with the Platform and/or any component or feature thereof which changes and/or facilitates the gameplay or other functionality;”
That’s a mod.
Blizzard does not “forbid” you from having a modded version of the game because it’s impossible to control what people do with files on their computers, but mods explicitly disable the battle.net button for a reason.
Yeah. I called D2SE launcher, but it’s exactly that – a mod manager.
I play 114d which is not modded over battle net. I can’t play a mod over battle net.
And I don’t run 114 with the mod manager, I use the regular shortcut.
Yeah, that’s what I mean. You can only still play on battle net with an unmodded client.
Still, that’s all semantics and Blizzard even showed screenshots of modded versions of D2 on past Blizzcons so it’s not like they’ll hunt you for having mods installed. It’s one of those “we don’t support it, and stay away from our servers with them, but otherwise do what you want” situations
Yes, I’m saying that numbers don’t always relate to the quality of the product. More people enjoy cheap chinese products than any others therefore they’re better products? I disagree with Big Pimpin’s logic here.
The thing is, being sold in more places and moving more units doesn’t make it high quality, it just means the marketing layout is working for selling it to people.
Quantity does not equal quality. fast, cheap and easy to acquire by people not being fussy…yeah, I can see how some folks can agree with that analogy for Diablo 3.
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Yes, I agreed with that.
The resource system in D2 is completely broken. Looking at it now, that is certainly one of its major flaws imo.
Someone like Llama is not really representative of how the game was ‘meant’ to be played though. Speedrunning rarely is.
Yep. Playing D2 this very moment. PlugY is great.
Yet another good reason for having an offline mode.
I do think Enigma was a bad idea overall, but they needed a way to make other characters as mobile as the sorc. As for classic, there are still plenty of bots there. They run multiple bots in chaos, the sorc teles and in comes hammerdin zoom zooming around. There are also bots that don’t require teleporting. Your reasons for not liking D2 nowadays had little to do with actual gameplay mechanics.