Quote (Mystic_Bardock @ Jan 23 2022 07:44am)
The resurgence in D2 popularity was due to plugy, PoD, and other D2 mods. D2 also started to get a pretty dedicated speed running community on top of holy grails.
The resurgence of D2 popularity was not due to 50-100 people botting and pvping each other continuously for 15 years.
None of the changes before D2R or after have been PVP focused. PVP was never mentioned at any point in the D2R release. They never mentioned the PVP community as "holding strong" as being a reason for D2R being created. Mod communities and ladder reset communities were mentioned specifically as extending the staying power of the game, no pvp mention.
Directly taken from the patch notes:
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Character hit recovery will now have diminishing returns when being hit by another player.