https://wccftech.com/diablo-4-confirmed-artbook-diablo-2-remastered/

https://twitter.com/Metro_OW/status/1185024406961246208

Could you advise what version this installer provides? I have downloaded it a year ago and I know I had to apply patch to the game after installation so it has not provided the latest version.

Huh, and here I'm still waiting for there to be a Diablo 3 *game* (not online service).

This is a rather poor example of that. Activision just recently banned a player from competition in order to get in good with the authorities over there. It's hardly an American thing to notice the political nature of the action.
That's been out for years. I'm still not sure why it's constantly labeled as TL2 though...

The Blizzard we all knew and loved is dead. The empty shell that is Blizzard of today can only live on former glory and re-release old games for so long. When they're out of cheap nostalgia tricks, they will go the same way as Bioware.

Enjoy all the remasters while they last because we won't get anything new that's worthwhile. The decline has already started, soon the cracks in the facade will become more apparent.

Diablo 4 might very well be Blizzard's answer to Dragon Age: Inquisition. Hopefully, they won't turn anything Starcraft into their own Mass Effect: Andromeda.

You mean GD. ;)

And? So? But? Therefore? It's Blizzard's competition, they own it, therefore they're well within their rights to ban a player for innapropriately using their competition to spread political propaganda. What proof do you have that they did it to appease the Chinese government? All they've said is that they don't want their competition used for political purposes.

We are lucky to get the older games here, tbh, and I don't think the devs will drop it here and harm the sales of the older games here.....plus sadly many execs/etc think Gog is encouraging piracy(even though it doesn't).

Also mods will likely be locked to a club/etc like with steam/other game mod systems as of late, though I hope they don't go that route.
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Those markets are big money so game/etc companies cater to them by censoring some things to sell there, and many dislike that sh*t.
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The console versions are fine for that....of course if one doesn't have a console or support them then yeah....
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Because they make big money over there and don't seem to ban any other political messaging for the most part?

Also they are not the only ones who do it and have been caught doing it. Disney and others do it too(no ghosts/no g*ys/no minorities of a certain color in chinese copies of many films & games).

And yeah it's their right(to an extent) to do such...just as it is our right to vote with our money and not support things made by those who do other things we dislike.

It would surely be online-only shit, so no, I hope not.

I've been asking for a D2 remaster for a while now. I really hope we see it at this year's Blizzcon.

Similar to what Bethesda tried to pull with the classic Doom games a few weeks back, I can absolutely see Blizzard releasing the Diablo 2 Remaster with a retroactively built-in always-online requirement as well.
So that, in order to just play the singleplayer campaign you'd still need to have the Battlenet client running in the background.

The fact is, Blizzard already implemented some of Battle.net's always-on components in the Diablo II client with the game's latest patch (in 2016). Right now, this online shit is only used to "survey" the user's PC and to check for the availability of new updates.

Being online all the time is still not required to play with single-player characters, but with the shitty, greedy, disgusting company Blizzard has become you can never know what they will try to do (and how they will try to royally screw you) in the future...

I wish they'd let us have Diablo III for PC without DRM.

I don't see why Diablo 2 even needs a remaster, the artwork is very good even today, all it needs is new patch adding official widescreen/4k support.