Blizzard Patches "Diablo II" 16 Years Later, But Apparently Forgot to Test It

[Thomas the Tank Engine]

 

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Blizzard Entertainment may not have released a significant patch for its cash cow World of Warcraft in almost nine months, but on Thursday it dropped a new patch for the 16-year-old action role-playing game

Diablo II. That's some pretty impressive service in an age when other publishers go so far as to strip games of core services a handful of years later.

 

But don't expect new ways to kill demons or something fancy like a graphical update. As Blizzard says in an accompanying forum post, the patch simply adds support for contemporary operating systems like Windows 10. In addition, Diablo II's Mac players now have a new installer. And should you happen to get frustrated with cheaters, you'll be happy to know the team's also working on "cheat-detection and hack-prevention capabilities."

"There is still a large Diablo II community around the world, and we thank you for continuing to play and slay with us," Blizzard says in its blog post. "This journey starts by making Diablo II run on modern platforms, but it does not end there."

 

So where does it end? For starters, they might want to start fixing the new bugs the patch introduced according to reports from many Blizzard forum posters. The "shiny new installer" for OS X apparently doesn't work at all, mercenary portraits disappear, players reportedly can't adjust settings like brightness and gamma while in fullscreen mode without console commands, and the cursor now tends to glide across the screen at a sluggish pace. Some players even claim the bots are still around.

 

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[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Still waiting for the D2 and WC3 HD ports they mentioned a few years ago. Would also love to have a copy of D1 on my account...

[madd-hatter]

On 3/12/2016 at 7:09 AM, Thomas the Tank Engine said:

Some players even claim the bots are still around.

Last I checked, the majority of D2's community consists primarily of blatantly obvious bots...

[trag3dy]

I read somewhere they are also doing the same for WC3. I can't find where I read that though.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

3 hours ago, trag3dy said:

I read somewhere they are also doing the same for WC3. I can't find where I read that though.

http://www.pcgamer.com/warcraft-3-rises-again-with-patch-127/

[simplezz]

I'll probably play in the next ladder reset. Wanna get me some high runes!

[LaP]

On 2016-03-12 at 7:11 AM, Andrew said:

Still waiting for the D2 and WC3 HD ports they mentioned a few years ago. Would also love to have a copy of D1 on my account...

That would be very awesome.