[Rumour Mill] Possible D2R update on the way in 2025?

breakyobaals wrote: 5 months ago

Yes and yes

Burning Hells yes!

Calling it now:
D2:R ported to Android and iOS with a built-in "buy whatever runes/gear you want" RM store.

That is all.

And honestly..kinda hoping they leave it at that, considering the "quality" of modern day Blizz and likely subsequent negative impact of any real addition they'd try to implement.

That said, I wouldn't say no to a bunch of long-standing simpler things finally being taken care of/added that even they (hopefully) can't break the game with:
- Finally fix the chat bugs we've had since day 1
- A proper lobby/game search
- Online /players 2-8
- A new, SIGNIFICANTLY harder difficulty level (don't care about higher drops in it or anything, just a way to make the game actually challenging)

Or, you know, much like last time..."patch incoming! big changes! info to be released soon! be excited!"........."slight wording change to South Korean EULA, enjoy great patch!".

Schnorki wrote: 5 months ago

Finally fix the chat bugs we've had since day 1

Yeah, I don't know about you guys but in-game chat is just straight-up not working (at all) for me at all for the last two weeks. No messages in-game, no messages in Lobby chat

Schnorki wrote: 5 months ago

Calling it now:
D2:R ported to Android and iOS with a built-in "buy whatever runes/gear you want" RM store.

That is all.

And honestly..kinda hoping they leave it at that, considering the "quality" of modern day Blizz and likely subsequent negative impact of any real addition they'd try to implement.

That said, I wouldn't say no to a bunch of long-standing simpler things finally being taken care of/added that even they (hopefully) can't break the game with:
- Finally fix the chat bugs we've had since day 1
- A proper lobby/game search
- Online /players 2-8
- A new, SIGNIFICANTLY harder difficulty level (don't care about higher drops in it or anything, just a way to make the game actually challenging)

Or, you know, much like last time..."patch incoming! big changes! info to be released soon! be excited!"........."slight wording change to South Korean EULA, enjoy great patch!".

I would really, really, really pray for a harder difficulty level. I think what takes away from the game is the endless grinding after you beat hell, which i get is the best part for many people, but I don't think they would mind if there is a harder difficulty to grind on.

And yeah, I would love a proper chat search as well. I search "

Baal" or "Chaos" whenever there are TZs and a bunch of day old games show up, and the real ones i care about are nowhere to be seen..

I'm pretty ambivalent about there being a harder difficulty level. IMO that's one of the ways in which latter Diablo titles fell away from Blizzard, they added exponential scaling to everything, including difficulty.

I get tho that certain item combinations trivialises D2's hardest difficulty. But we've also seen with Mosaic that imbalance in both directions can be introduced. So i'm not sure I want development like this.

At this point I think I just want QOL improvements only and balance adjustments done piecemeal and carefully.

Teebling wrote: 5 months ago

Schnorki wrote: 5 months ago

Finally fix the chat bugs we've had since day 1

Yeah, I don't know about you guys but in-game chat is just straight-up not working (at all) for me at all for the last two weeks. No messages in-game, no messages in Lobby chat

There is a temporary fix that is working 100% which I shared at blizzard forums a few weeks ago. You gotta log in to the game and go to options and DISABLE online chat then exit the game which will likely freeze the client. Then log in again go options and ENABLE online chat and you can guess the next step quit the game which won't freeze this time. After this you log in again and enjoy the online chat for a while at least.

Hope this helps.

Interesting to see how the poll results have changed over time. 36% the voters think it's a larger expansion-pack-sized update, and 64% believe it will be maintenance mode (or a smaller-sized update). That's a lot more Act 6 believers than when the poll started.

0 votes for Diablo 1: Resurrected. I did secure the diablo1.io domain just in case btw

Teebling wrote: 4 months ago

I did secure the diablo1.io domain just in case btw

Nice

Teebling wrote: 4 months ago

Interesting to see how the poll results have changed over time. 36% the voters think it's a larger expansion-pack-sized update, and 64% believe it will be maintenance mode (or a smaller-sized update). That's a lot more Act 6 believers than when the poll started.

0 votes for Diablo 1: Resurrected. I did secure the diablo1.io domain just in case btw

I would absolutely love to see D1: R. I'm not holding my breath for it, though.

With all due respect: They resold us abandonware with a new overlay. The newest patch was literally "Changed the ladder season digits from 10 to 11" Shocked we even got a decent remake that didn't end up a total disaster like WC3:Reforged. At this point, just leaving it in maintenance mode is victory enough. There is a high probability new Blizz could make D2R worse, I have zero Faith in that company right now.

Teebling wrote: 4 months ago

0 votes for Diablo 1: Resurrected. I did secure the diablo1.io domain just in case btw

When you first started the poll there were a couple D1R votes, but those have since disappeared. Vote changers I suppose.

For people that hope for an act 6, keep in mind Blizzard North doesn't exist anymore and almost all of there members don't work anymore in Blizzard company.

Knappogue wrote: 4 months ago

Teebling wrote: 4 months ago

0 votes for Diablo 1: Resurrected. I did secure the diablo1.io domain just in case btw

When you first started the poll there were a couple D1R votes, but those have since disappeared. Vote changers I suppose.

Exactly.
And after few days when news came out with the Sydney meeting, the Act 6 option rose a bit.

Florian_G wrote: 4 months ago

Knappogue wrote: 4 months ago

Teebling wrote: 4 months ago

0 votes for Diablo 1: Resurrected. I did secure the diablo1.io domain just in case btw

When you first started the poll there were a couple D1R votes, but those have since disappeared. Vote changers I suppose.

Exactly.
And after few days when news came out with the Sydney meeting, the Act 6 option rose a bit.

I was told that more content, including act 6 was discussed in the focus group.

Maybe Chris Wilson's new company working on this? Blizzard know that GGG proved without a doubt that two different games can coexist together (POE 1 and POE 2) with new content and shared player base.

MOX wrote: 4 months ago

Maybe Chris Wilson's new company working on this? Blizzard know that GGG proved without a doubt that two different games can coexist together (POE 1 and POE 2) with new content and shared player base.

HM.

nahhh...could it be? That would be crazy to even think about.
But at his level of competency (with those credentials helming GGG) i'm sure he can put together a small team (or already am) to collaborate with new Blizz just like how D2r came about.

Adding those missing quest lines in Act 4 would be great for a start...

GGG on the other hand has 2 titles to juggle , 1 a mature title and the other which continues to be in early access mode (it got 500,000) players at one point in time...numbers Blizz can only Dream about.
(but i will stop at this as any talk of POE whatever here gets an unwelcome PM from this site's owner...beware!)

P.S I can send you a personal invite to my bnet chat group if you wish to talk about all ARPGs under the sun if you want.

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

MOX wrote: 4 months ago

Maybe Chris Wilson's new company working on this? Blizzard know that GGG proved without a doubt that two different games can coexist together (POE 1 and POE 2) with new content and shared player base.

HM.

nahhh...could it be? That would be crazy to even think about.
But at his level of competency (with those credentials helming GGG) i'm sure he can put together a small team (or already am) to collaborate with new Blizz just like how D2r came about.

Adding those missing quest lines in Act 4 would be great for a start...

GGG on the other hand has 2 titles to juggle , 1 a mature title and the other which continues to be in early access mode (it got 500,000) players at one point in time...numbers Blizz can only Dream about.
(but i will stop at this as any talk of POE whatever here gets an unwelcome PM from this site's owner...beware!)

P.S I can send you a personal invite to my bnet chat group if you wish to talk about all ARPGs under the sun if you want.

Maybe if you didn't constantly talk about D2R like you were bitter about having to pay it alimony.

human_being wrote: 4 months ago

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

MOX wrote: 4 months ago

Maybe Chris Wilson's new company working on this? Blizzard know that GGG proved without a doubt that two different games can coexist together (POE 1 and POE 2) with new content and shared player base.

HM.

nahhh...could it be? That would be crazy to even think about.
But at his level of competency (with those credentials helming GGG) i'm sure he can put together a small team (or already am) to collaborate with new Blizz just like how D2r came about.

Adding those missing quest lines in Act 4 would be great for a start...

GGG on the other hand has 2 titles to juggle , 1 a mature title and the other which continues to be in early access mode (it got 500,000) players at one point in time...numbers Blizz can only Dream about.
(but i will stop at this as any talk of POE whatever here gets an unwelcome PM from this site's owner...beware!)

P.S I can send you a personal invite to my bnet chat group if you wish to talk about all ARPGs under the sun if you want.

Maybe if you didn't constantly talk about D2R like you were bitter about having to pay it alimony.

i suggest you to better rephrase that and choose your words carefully.

Outrageous_Feed5667 wrote: 4 months ago

With all due respect: They resold us abandonware with a new overlay. The newest patch was literally "Changed the ladder season digits from 10 to 11" Shocked we even got a decent remake that didn't end up a total disaster like WC3:Reforged. At this point, just leaving it in maintenance mode is victory enough. There is a high probability new Blizz could make D2R worse, I have zero Faith in that company right now.

Totally feel you. But you have to be thankful they added extra assets to modernize it, runs better & added a bunch of QOL.

Any other new update that is free is definitely going to ramp up hype & attention.

But if they want to put a price tag or fee (that isn't gimmicky) or D:Immortal i would reconsider.

I don't mind shelling out monies if it's justifiable.

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

human_being wrote: 4 months ago

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

HM.

nahhh...could it be? That would be crazy to even think about.
But at his level of competency (with those credentials helming GGG) i'm sure he can put together a small team (or already am) to collaborate with new Blizz just like how D2r came about.

Adding those missing quest lines in Act 4 would be great for a start...

GGG on the other hand has 2 titles to juggle , 1 a mature title and the other which continues to be in early access mode (it got 500,000) players at one point in time...numbers Blizz can only Dream about.
(but i will stop at this as any talk of POE whatever here gets an unwelcome PM from this site's owner...beware!)

P.S I can send you a personal invite to my bnet chat group if you wish to talk about all ARPGs under the sun if you want.

Maybe if you didn't constantly talk about D2R like you were bitter about having to pay it alimony.

i suggest you to better rephrase that and choose your words carefully.

I did. : )