diablo Diablo 2: Resurrected Will Not Affect the Original

[Staff 1,488]

 

Blizzard are learning from past mistakes, as we might have the problematic Warcraft 3: Reforged to thank for saving the original Diablo 2! 

As you might recall, the launch of WC3: Reforged saw the original Warcraft 3 LAN, ladder, clans and more removed and merged into the new version, which had changed a lot and wasn't a very good product. Fans were furious, even those that didn't buy the remaster, and were left without their beloved original game. 

Thankfully, we won't have to worry about that with Diablo 2! Despite the team at Vicarious Visions keeping as close as possible to the original, changes have to be made, and we've already seen new quality of life improvements, obviously the new graphics and similar, which all seem like big improvements but will definitely annoy some. Franchise head Rod Ferguson talked to PC Gamer on the matter:

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One of the things we wanted to make sure was that D2 original stayed D2 original. We were going to make sure that that game stayed there. For example, if you had a horrible code hacking mod that invalidated the security of the game but that's your favorite way to play, you can still go do that, because we're not going to support that kind of mod on D2R. Keeping the two games separate was a big part of that.

Hell Unleashed, my favorite D2 mod.

And that indeed is the most important part: the mods. As the majority od Diablo 2 mods used sprites from other games it was obvious it would be absolutely impossible to recreate them. So this news is incredibly important, as it allows all the old mods to still work with the original version of the game, and even new ones to be developed! So thanks to Blizzard for learning their lesson and letting us keep the OG experience, with any crazy mods we want.

[Migol 433]

It's kind of painful hearing them talk about these things and yet being SO VERY CAREFUL to not mention Warcraft III Reforged by name at all.    Like, go through all the vids, it's not mentioned ever.

So much got removed from Warcraft III for reforged that was promised back (clans for example!) and it's looking more and more like they're going to leave it to rot.

[Arcling 898]

Nice, now if only they did something about Reforged still lacking profiles, ladders and custom campaigns.

[Oxygen 446]

I still play Hell Unleashed to this day, and seeing the "online" requirement on the Resurrected page certainly spooked me. Glad they cleared this up. I don't know who's using our staff account right now, but I'm glad you brought up HU. 👍

[shadowsrmine 0]

On 2/20/2021 at 1:59 PM, Staff said:

 

Blizzard are learning from past mistakes, as we might have the problematic Warcraft 3: Reforged to thank for saving the original Diablo 2! 

As you might recall, the launch of WC3: Reforged saw the original Warcraft 3 LAN, ladder, clans and more removed and merged into the new version, which had changed a lot and wasn't a very good product. Fans were furious, even those that didn't buy the remaster, and were left without their beloved original game. 

Thankfully, we won't have to worry about that with Diablo 2! Despite the team at Vicarious Visions keeping as close as possible to the original, changes have to be made, and we've already seen new quality of life improvements, obviously the new graphics and similar, which all seem like big improvements but will definitely annoy some. Franchise head Rod Ferguson talked to PC Gamer on the matter:

Hell Unleashed, my favorite D2 mod.

And that indeed is the most important part: the mods. As the majority od Diablo 2 mods used sprites from other games it was obvious it would be absolutely impossible to recreate them. So this news is incredibly important, as it allows all the old mods to still work with the original version of the game, and even new ones to be developed! So thanks to Blizzard for learning their lesson and letting us keep the OG experience, with any crazy mods we want.

Are you still going to be required to login every 90 days or lose your toons? And is the toon account limit still 8 toons? Or does each key limit you to one account Ah La  D3?