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C'mon people, help me here.
When is Diablo 2 coming to GOG?
It's about time!
Post edited April 01, 2025 by Jinx_Skeel
Whenever Blizzard doesn't feel like supporting the Legacy version any longer.
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Yigdboz: Whenever Blizzard doesn't feel like supporting the Legacy version any longer.
I don't feel like supporting blizzard any longer. Specially after what they did delisting War2 from GoG. That was it for me. Diablo 2 on GOG ftw now!
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Yigdboz: Whenever Blizzard doesn't feel like supporting the Legacy version any longer.
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Jinx_Skeel: I don't feel like supporting blizzard any longer. Specially after what they did delisting War2 from GoG. That was it for me. Diablo 2 on GOG ftw now!
Well, then you shouldn't want to legally purchase any other Blizzard game, right?
And they have the rights, so it's 100% their call when it's sold anywhere else, and since they even delisted something that was already available here, the odds of them listing something else that even has a lucrative remaster are basically zero.
Chances were low since the digital version had already been available for years. They became even lower with the release of Diablo 2 Resurrected and the removal of Warcraft 1+2 from GOG was the final nail in the coffin.
Post edited April 01, 2025 by Grargar
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Jinx_Skeel: I don't feel like supporting blizzard any longer. Specially after what they did delisting War2 from GoG. That was it for me. Diablo 2 on GOG ftw now!
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Cavalary: Well, then you shouldn't want to legally purchase any other Blizzard game, right?
And they have the rights, so it's 100% their call when it's sold anywhere else, and since they even delisted something that was already available here, the odds of them listing something else that even has a lucrative remaster are basically zero.
yeah but purchasing their products through gog is a very different matter. like a statement. like "we don't want no remasters, no remakes. we want our good old games the way they were always supposed to be, DRM-Free."
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Grargar: Chances were low since the digital version had already been available for years. They became even lower with the release of Diablo 2 Resurrected and the removal of Warcraft 1+2 from GOG was the final nail in the coffin.
well diablo 2 is there on the gog program dreamlist, with almost a 100.000 votes, so...
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Jinx_Skeel: well diablo 2 is there on the gog program dreamlist, with almost a 100.000 votes, so...
Unfortunately, few stories have as happy an ending as fans demanding 4th season of Kim Possible or the release of the Snyder Cut.

The removal of Diablo 1 from GOG is far mroe likely than the release of Diablo 2.
Post edited April 02, 2025 by Breja
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Jinx_Skeel: well diablo 2 is there on the gog program dreamlist, with almost a 100.000 votes, so...
*shrug* Just means that many users want it. But they don't have any say in it, just like GOG doesn't either.

It is something that people somehow still don't seem to get. In the best scenario, distribution rights are entirely in the hands of the publishers, so unless they want to put a game in a store, it won't happen, period, no matter what the store or its users do about it.
And I'm saying that the best scenario is that because there are also "rights hell" situations where it's not clear who has the rights or expired licenses that won't be renewed, so there are games where not even the publishers can really allow it. But when it's clear who has the rights, and especially when a game is being sold somewhere else, the decision is 100% in the hands of the publisher. And if it's an in-demand game, you can be absolutely certain that GOG has tried to ask to sell it time and time again and were met with refusals.
GOG has a huge stinking pile of failings, which grows every day, but this is not one of them. The question about releasing such games should be directed to the publisher, not to GOG.
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Jinx_Skeel: yeah but purchasing their products through gog is a very different matter. like a statement. like "we don't want no remasters, no remakes. we want our good old games the way they were always supposed to be, DRM-Free." well diablo 2 is there on the gog program dreamlist, with almost a 100.000 votes, so...
Like most parts of the dreamlist, they're talking the implausible, unless GOG's ready to shell out for a vacuum tube computer emulator among other things.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/mo_dreamlist_mo_problems_reporting_thread

Most of us have concluded that the Dreamlist is a very well intentioned publicity stunt; and given I had to add several shareware titles myself, I'm inclined to believe I've fallen outside of what GOG considered interesting or worth perusing.
Let us be honest, they oppose us having DRM free copies because they consider us like thieves for being able to play these games where we want and offline. I just wish they would be honest and call us thieving scum because that is honestly what they think of us. Like how Best Buy called anyone but the customers who would buy all the extras deadbeats behind the scene.
Diablo 2 Classic would be an instant buy for me if it arrived here... even though I have the retail DVD editions of both the base game and the expansion, which the latest patches make DRM-free anyway. If I were you, I'd recommend finding someone selling those DVDs and just buy them and make an ISO backup so you never lose access to them. Then just add the PlugY mod and you have an excellent game.

I'd like the Resurrected edition here too, but only when it allows mods such as PlugY to be used, which is essential if you want to enjoy Diablo 2 as a single-player.
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Jinx_Skeel: well diablo 2 is there on the gog program dreamlist, with almost a 100.000 votes, so...
Which means absolutely bupkis. GOG is under no requirement to add games to their catalogue which "win" the dreamlist top spots. Nothing has changed from when it was the GOG wishlist, only it looks snazzier. The Dreamlist revamp is nothing more than a window-dressing marketing ploy.

We vote for games we'd like to see sold here, but still as always the game's IP holders and GOG's ability/willingness to negotiate for the game dictate whether it gets here or not.
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dnovraD: I'm inclined to believe I've fallen outside of what GOG considered interesting or worth perusing.
Don't feel bad, I'm inclined to believe most community opinions have fallen outside of what GOG considers interesting or worth perusing. What management really wants is blind agreement with whatever harebrained scheme they come up with.
I would also like a DRM-free Diablo 2. But at this point, what I would like more is to watch Activision/Blizzard and Bobby burn.
Sorry, bro. Hell will freeze over before we see Diablo 2 here.

Good thing we already have Diablo 2 at home until then - https://www.gog.com/en/game/torchlight_ii