Multiplayer can be done with up to four players. Multiplayer characters’ states are saved periodically. Players can either be aggressive towards, or play co-operatively with, other players. Players can connect by one of the following: direct connection, connection, [Battle. net] connection or IPX network connection. The game lacks the stronger anti-cheating methods of Blizzard’s later games and as a result, many characters online have been altered in various ways by common third-party programs known as trainers and/or game editing programs such as Cheat Engine
Look guys I’m sorry, I don’t know what to tell you.
Things may have been cleaned up and / or edited to say this, but I do have the earliest version of D1, it does pre-date battle.net, and that is simply all.
My father had it day one because my uncle who was really big into games wouldn’t shut up about how great of a game it was going to be. At least this was his reasoning when I asked him how he even got into Diablo. Basically said “Bill kept talking about how awesome of a game it was going to be and we got it when it came out then spent two days nerding it out on LAN.”
The game released the same exact day as Battle Net. Unless you have some very early demo copy that was only available prior to the launch this is simply not the case. Hell you can hard install the game right now as a fresh copy and it’ll have battle net.
Maybe but I doubt a preorder would have been allowed before the game actually came out, even at Walmart. I’ve preordered a lot of things, like Majora’s Mask for 3ds and they still made me wait until midnight before they’d actually ring it up when I showed up at like 11:30.
But even a preorder copy should still have what is going to be released unless you were able to get your hands on a game with the release data but it had its old art for the cd case before they knew the game was being launched alongside battle net to kick off the service and see how it went.
It’s pretty damn unlikely he even worked for blizzard in any meaningful way 30 years ago, let alone in any capacity that would mean… anything.
He’s most likely just parroting company line and translating it into internet content, which honestly it’s really disturbing you would take that over physical reality.
The guy was contracted by Blizzard to develop the game they were initially working on as I believe Condor or some name similar, they released a Justice League fighting game for I think Sega.
Sure he may have been a grunt at Blizzard North but he was still the lead developer for a game they were eagerly anticipating the release of and he gave them what is probably one of their most loved franchises of their golden years.