same here. d3 devs suckered up and played victim, reversing all their rmah and spewed crap saying it was a bad idea. trying to gain back support. then they nuked trading entirely. that's when everything went to shit. d3 almost revived when rift it forward was a thing. which actually forced some kind of socialization of joining/creating games and made them have a purpose. then they got rid of all that shit too. newer woke games hate socialization. they think SSF is the way to go. d2 wouldn't even be 1% of where it is today if there was no battle.net. 95% of devs nowadays don't give a shit about their own values, they just want their salary. which sadly is incentivized to please their corporate overlords. it's all downhill from here.

next, you got insufferable indie devs working on their game pleading for $ on their kickstarter for a decade. when their game is finally released, hell already froze over. then they wonder why no one is playing their game or why is has no traction

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Feb 19 2023 08:34am

sounds like you're talking about the DAOC remake that got funded like 11 years ago but they still havent released the game, adn even promised people 3 years ago refunds which still hasn't happened, and now they got 15 million more dollars, which makes no sense to me at all lol.
camelot unchained . (camelot unreleased the current working title and probably the forever title)

Same here.

Games are allowed to evolve over time. I’m sure newer players will love d4 and to them d2 will be total antiquated shit. If you want to play 23 year old d2 no one is stopping you

that sounds like age discrimination

just facts...

yo mama

Vouch ya bud

i will at least run through the story 1 time just like i did for D3. The least we can do is give it a try.

Too old now to convince myself I'll like it. I'm sure the kids will get into it.

I'm personally going to wait for the game to release then check out a bunch of reviews to decide if I want to give them my 70 bucks. What I've seen and heard so far has not really impressed me. The combat I've seen looks weak, lots of visual things I'm not a fan of like damage indicators, enemies highlighted in red when mousing over, hoping those can be turned off. The trade system seems pretty bad. Worst case I'll just wait and see what other ARPGs come along. I saw an article the other day that some of the original Blizzard North staff are working on a new ARPG, so that could be interesting.