Lol. Thisssss

do you have a bot ?

You keep rejecting my application to this club you're in.

how dare you put that shirt on Shoresy....

This post was edited by Igothacked19 on May 11 2023 09:59pm

I can prove you wrong right now.

First off neither D2 neither D3 had ongoing monetization. Except the RMAH fees at the launch of D3 which was big and they provided updates. However the moment they forced to close the RMAH - entire D3 continuous monetization was gone. Therefore they Bound everything and let the game be played by the small amount of people who still enjoy killing sht in the same Rift without trading or else social interaction and compete with leaderboards.

Diablo 2 also - No monetization. It got it's expansion out, and the majority of the company was probably working on World of Warcraft. They also had a lot of other popular titles that required attention - Warcraft, Starcraft etc. And the moment World of Warcraft released it was so successful and demanding that they literally neglected all the other titles to support the WoW running.

D2R the same as original D2 has no monetization outside of "Reselling game copies to Botters". So in D2R there always going to be BOTS, because there needs to be Ongoing reason for them to BAN you and so you can come back purchase another D2R Copy of the game. I am not saying the game is bad - but all the bots destroy the whole game and makes it very little fun for people who want to play in a community not just Single-player.

Diablo 4... Well :
D4 will have monetization. MTX for skins etc. Battle pass. I am not a fan of Battle passes in general because they are just boring ... Just let me fking choose how to play the game myself man... what is this do this, get this, do this now, get this... Like what? Why do we have to play the way that someone WANTED us to play. I just wanna login and do whatever my mind comes up with.
However that being said D4 will have ongoing monetization. Hopefully the "bot" issue is going to handled ( since in D2 and D2R they have no reason to remove bots outside of letting them again if they $20 for new copy or so ).
I do believe that if the grand scheme of things if the negative impact of "Bots" do hurt their earnings from MTX and Battle Passes they will actively try to combat it efficiently.
Before someone tells me here that if they couldn't deal with Bots in D2 and D2R - Well guess what.... They have no gains to completely remove the bots since the re-purchasing of the game copy due to Botting is their ONLY income from both these titles.

At the end Diablo 4 will be better maintained and supported by staff.

P.S. : Well we all know why D2R was implemented to begin with. It all comes down to try to redeem themselves from the negative public relations after the BlizzCon which they said "you don't have phones? " - "Any plans for Diablo 2 remaster : No. We are here to announce Diablo Immortal.. we don't even have plans to make it suitable for PC...."
And then the rage began so they had to do something to salvage their community acceptance before the well-known upcoming Diablo Immortal release as well as Diablo 4 release. It's all connected. Whether a fan is D2 fan or D1 fan or D3 fan they are all DIABLO FANS.

This post was edited by bobsyns on May 12 2023 12:36am

Nah, I'll either be playing D4 or not at all... D2 is beyond played out and have no reason to play it any further, it got like 10-12 years and that was too long. PVP? Lol. Endgame? Lol.

This post was edited by mrholiday on May 12 2023 07:12am

PD2 been refreshing with all the changes, wish there been possibility for private servers for D2R, just to see what they would come up with.

Even current offline D2R mods like ReMoDDeD, did implemented some features which been completely new touch, like Soul Summons quoted below

I just have no interest in the least in D2 or D2R... there are just too many better games for me to play.

this is an assumption. i dont think that to be the case since immortal was finally ported over to pc, and more importantly blizzard had already started to remaster its games (starcraft/warcraft/wow) before the announcement of immortal.
it does not sound realistic to me that blizzard had intended to remaster its other ips, and only then decided to remaster d2 also because of the negative response from immortals announcement. given the timeline, its most probable that d2r was
already in development when the out of date april fools joke occured. red shirt guy is a legend, haha.

however, finally making immortal playable on pc could of been because of the rage/backlash.

This post was edited by C4NTWO on May 12 2023 09:35am