There's a post and file for download on the Internet Archive, and if you read a couple of the reviews you can't help but feel the love. Note the Internet Archive is a reputable site.
No one is downloading this preserved ISO to get one over on Activision Blizzard, which is now a part of the $3 trillion Microsoft. Blizzard lost the original source code for the game and it had to be rebuilt from the Japanese PlayStation version. They don't care one lick about their games and Activision cares even less. Microsoft certainly doesn't care about the absolute pittance they would make off of an almost 27 year old game.
Skaijuice wrote: 10 months ago
And of course..the iconic Godly Plate Of The Whale.
i remember reading that Godly plate of the whale was not in D1, it was a hacked item, took me a long time looking for it at wirt, and never got it until i finally read about it not possible to get in D1 without cheating, so i was looking for an item i could never get wasting time at wirt, just because i saw it on 2 !! friends chars at the same time, i guess they traded to it.
The lack of fanfare is expected. Either you want to play it, or not. Why burn the advertising effort and space on the niche audience? Especially when Bliz can't sell some sort of cosmetic pack for D1.
They did put the whole game in D3, so getting a full D1r experience doesn't seem likely.
Leaker416 wrote: 10 months ago
The lack of fanfare is expected. Either you want to play it, or not. Why burn the advertising effort and space on the niche audience? Especially when Bliz can't sell some sort of cosmetic pack for D1.
They did put the whole game in D3, so getting a full D1r experience doesn't seem likely.
They specifically built their PoS b.net app to be more commercial-broadcast and shop than functional game launcher...and yet, even looking specifically at a diablo product or even more so a classic diablo product (i.e. the d2:r game page), there is 0 mention of d1 being available again. Hell, the only reason I even know it is is because Skaijuice posted about it here. Yet again, that's just a pathetic "effort" on blizz's part. And even if the customerbase may be inherently limited for something that dated, even just a couple of people buying it after being made aware would still be bringing in more than you pay for one of their rando PR interns to spend 5 minutes making a "WE SELL D1 NAU!" slide for the launcher news.
I do agree with the "you want to play it, or not" (though that applies to every game really) but you lose most of that "want to play it" crowd as customers when you don't actually tell anyone you released something.
List trades and earn trust
Level up as you post
Give and Receive Likes
Discreet Notifications
Avatar & Profile customisation
Private Messaging
Bookmark Pages & Posts
Use Drafts & Revisions
Attach Images
Squelches this trader, making their offers on your trades invisible to anyone except themselves. Their trade listings will also be hidden from your marketplace.
Your squelch list can be managed and edited from Top right dropdown > Account Prefs > Squelches.
Hide ads
Ahrefs [Bot], 
ceving, 
cujokila, 
Illusions, 
Nikanu, 
ShadowHeart and 78 guests.
Skaijuice
809