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Update - 9/30
The Diablo II 1.13 patch is on temporary hold while we investigate potential impact on the Battle.net service. As we moved closer to launching the patch concerns grew that an increase in the player stash size (a feature in the patch) could compromise the Diablo II Battle.net service. The hardware and configuration could potentially not handle the increased stash size gracefully under heavy load. Currently we’re investigating potential impact as it is one of the larger content features in the patch and we’re hoping it can remain a part of the release. If it does have to be removed it will require additional time to remove it, generate new patches, and test, which will add time before we can go live on the PTR.
We’re hoping to have our diagnostics and a final decision on how we’ll be moving forward decided by early next week and we’ll have an update for you at that time.
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Due to our recent need for an online face lift, we've decided to carry out our plans of designing a website as visually stimulating as our new video games, and therefor the unfortunate Diablo II fans got the short straw again. Instead of actually finishing the patch we've been promising for over 10 months we decided to concentrate all of our efforts on creating a website layout that we fell matches the direction we are aiming for.
You can check out our new spiffy layout at www.blizzard.com
But rest assured D2 players, the almost forgotten 1.13 patch is "almost" complete and we will be announcing the effective PTR date very "soon". Just as a reminder to everyone though :
Soon : Copyright 2004-2009 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. "Soon" does not imply any particular date, time, decade, century, or millennia in the past, present, and certainly not the future. "Soon" shall make no contract or warranty between Blizzard Entertainment and the end user. "Soon" will arrive some day, Blizzard does guarantee that "soon" will be here before the end of time. Maybe. Do not make plans based on "soon" as Blizzard will not be liable for any misuse, use, or even casual glancing at "soon.
Partea cu rosu.. e scrisa de un player.
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I think anything that's been hyped so much and has been so long in the making will never meet all expectations. Especially when there's such a huge range of what the word 'content' means to different people.
The best thing we can do though is just get it out there as soon as possible. The groans of 'not enough' are inevitable at this point methinks.
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Not every change is going to appeal to everyone.
We asked for community feedback and a larger stash size was in the top three most requested changes.
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Higher resolution, which we unfortunately just can't do because it would fundamentally change the game and require a huge development investment to have the game/servers spawn enemies farther out, have them aggro from farther out, and even then it increases travel time to the player... it's just a mess. Apparently increasing the resolution in LoD was this gigantic issue so I think the idea of increasing it again makes some of the old time programmers want to curl up in a fetal position.
And new end game content, which we do want to continue adding, but just wasn't possible for this patch.
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[COLOR=red][QUOTE]OMFG so basically we got three wishes and two of them were wasted. LOL [/QUOTE][/COLOR]