How could it take so long, look I work in the biz. Not blizzard ofc, but I know how creating animation and fx works. They could just hire some cheap ass Chinese house to do the real grunt work and churn out an exact reboot in no time. I'd say less than 6 months. Now working this into the existing server architecture and possibly adding some under the hood upgrades would probably be difficult. The engine is old, but come the fuck on, you're blizzard for crying out loud.

I do share Stealth's concerns about fucking with the game, but that's the beauty. No one wants them to change it, it would basically be like making a port. All the sprites and textures would have to get reworked, but that's grunt work that blizz could afford.

Anywho, I'm glad that d2 is still chugging along on the dark side of the net. The bots and hacks kinda even make it more underground and unique. So you get spam and shit, so what. At least it feels like a real experience of the gamers psyche. Diablo 3 just feels like a giant marketing scam.

Yeah I was told that east was the place to go....I was given Some sort of 24 hour suspension after my topic post ...is there a reason?

Anyways anyone want to show me around east diablo on Thursday ?

I'll probably be around, you can pm me Thursday.

i have characters on west i could hook u up if u play it

Here is my opinion:

I do not like the idea of re-modelling and new textures because that would mess up the whole 'picture', but if you want to scale the resolution up to 1080p it becomes inevitable otherwise the whole Blood Moor area would fit in one screen. Monster AI also needs to be improved since the 'line of sight' now is according to 800*600 (actually you can experience this feature if you are playing with higher resolution mods). Giving the fact that D2 uses a very old engine I presume that enhancing comes with more work than simply making a new game based on D2 standards.

But.

From the sales and marketing point of view: please keep in mind that 15 years have been passed, much have been changed. Most of the old players became adults which means that they are out of the 'target scope'. The new generation of gamers do not have that kind of patience and enthusiasm which is required for a stable in-game community. Everything is faster, kids will become bored faster demanding every feature instantly. This means that the 'black market' will also react faster so programmers, botters, itemshops will remain and game shall be ruined within a few weeks. Sad but true investing into D2 does not worth anymore.

This post was edited by -joey- on Oct 14 2015 08:06am

I'd imagine there's not much money in third party companies buying the rights to do stuff like this tobold games.

I know the target audience is depleted but I'd say big picture, there is a monster market that wants games in general from the past "reskinned."

There's gotta be a way for us gamers to get our wish

someone sounds like a business major

very accurate outlook I imagine

This post was edited by XcrvX4092 on Oct 14 2015 06:49pm

Cmon, let's do it!

Wonder how many businesses have attempted and failed due to legal or whatever issues. Hmm
It's had to have been proposed to many companies before.

single player > all

since b.net was filled with bots, cheaters/lamers/hackers and whatnot 99% of the time, when i quit b.net
and i don't think much have changed really, more like it become worse with this.

but we all got our opinions, so this is just mine.