I stopped playing in. 09 and can't really remember ladder from back then or what it made the game look like.

sure, it makes the game look very much the same...

With the new ladder runewords, most people will gravitate to Ladder. Lots will still play NL, but prices are gonna tank with the new update.

New update? On the legacy games or on d2r?

you can guess about 95% will play ladder and the 5% will have no idea they are not on ladder

This, because they won't know the difference. Also with modern mentality, if they look at the options they'd think "bah, competition, too much stress!" then choose NL

yes

i always played ladder. but i never dueled. if i ever duel i will probably do it non ladder.

Ld for mf, nld for pvp- that's my plan

Nl will prob lose most of the mfers and be primarily pvp