25th anniversary

Has there been any update on this? I can’t find anything online. Blizzard teased that something big was coming but then went silent..

Something big did happen - they officially released the game in China (it never was before - any Chinese players were playing via VPN to be able to reach Blizzard services outside of China).

forums/new-d2r-version-available-for-pr ... 14956.html

Not exactly what anyone (outside of China) was hoping for, but yeah...

ShadowHeart wrote: 2 months ago

Something big did happen - they officially released the game in China (it never was before - any Chinese players were playing via VPN to be able to reach Blizzard services outside of China).

forums/new-d2r-version-available-for-pr ... 14956.html

Not exactly what anyone (outside of China) was hoping for, but yeah...

Damn. I was hoping for more inventory slots

Randall67 wrote: 2 months ago

Damn. I was hoping for more inventory slots

Well, the Chinese version does include the option to buy additional shared stash tabs (up to 7 total), and Blizzard also did say during an official Q&A leading up to the Chinese release that they envisioned there only being one version of the game (same everywhere), but whether that actually means the ability to buy extra stash tabs will end up in our version as well is anyone's guess. They also said during the same Q&A that Mosaic will be changed, but that hasn't happened yet, neither for us or in the Chinese version - though to be fair, it could still happen.

I don't want to instill too much hope here, but BlizzTrack.com has some kind of a tracker for D2R version, both for the current live version and a vendor version which I would assume is for ongoing development, and the vendor version has been getting updates now and then (like once every 1-2 weeks) since mid-July. Last one just a few minutes ago. So it's possible they are actually working on something.

https://blizztrack.com/view/osi <-- actual live version that we're playing, you can see the version number there matches the D2R version number in-game (on the splash screen) and in the BNet launcher. If you look more closely you can also see that the tracker reports that this version was last updated 5th of December 2024, which matches with when D2R was last actually patched (season 9 started 7th of December - it had a minor bug fix).

https://blizztrack.com/view/osiv2 <-- the vendor version which keeps being updated, it's a much higher version number (1.6.89501 vs 1.6.84219 ).