I played Diablo2 for almost 19 years. Then the Blitzchung controversy happened. Now Diablo2, and all Blizzard products are dead to me, and imo they should be dead to you all as well.
This is serious concern for me regarding the rise of China. Access to their market is already so valuable that they are able to impose their censorship program internationally via implicit threat against corporate proxies abroad. See the similar NBA Hong Kong controversy[0] and the YouTube 'communist bandit' ordeal[1].
I'm pretty happy to draw a distinction between playing a blizzard north game that I bought in 2002, and continuing to support activision blizzard today.
Wow... I haven't read an article that made me more upset than that one in weeks. The "Diablo 3" we got had no business calling itself Diablo anything imo. We didn't dodge a bullet, we were robbed.
I wholeheartedly agree! Oh no, I also wish I wasn't the bearer of bad news, lol. The creatives behind these projects are gone, I feel Blizzard is a shell of what it once was. I wasted countless hours with Diablo - another Blizzard project I'd like to have seen is Titan.
it's not reimplementing it from scratch. it's developing a runtime engine that can read the original diablo 2 files. It says right in the README with big letters. You can't use this unless you have a legal copy of diablo2 and an expansion.
>You can't use this unless you have a legal copy of diablo2 and an expansion.
Or an iso acquired from a random torrent site. I've owned a few copies of D2 in my life and given blizzard years of my time, who knows where the booklets with the CD keys are. At least my copies of lod have it printed on the cover. I feel no qualms whatsoever about not giving blizzard more money for another 'legit' copy.
You are boycotting people playing a 20 year old game that was made by Blizzard North, who closed their doors in 2005, over someone being banned in 2019? Why don't we just cancel every business who has ever done something we disagree with?
