Diablo 2: Resurrected was among the few Blizzcon 2021...
Diablo 2: Resurrected was among the few Blizzcon 2021 announcements that will really release this season. The title was called a"loyal" remaster of the 2000 dungeon crawler Diablo 2, which Blizzard Entertainment will bring to Diablo 2 Resurrected Items life by enhancing the graphics of the original title. While this may freshen the 21-year-old game, the launch sorely lacks many features players anticipate from contemporary hack-and-slashers. Diablo 2: Resurrected launch appears to have learned from the controversial launch of Warcraft 3: Reforged, but it is another remake charging players for less content.
The Diablo 2 remaster only slightly changes the first's two-decade-old user interface. It will lack crossplay at launch, and its own cross-progression feature requires players to purchase the game twice. Despite all that, Blizzard has obviously learned from its errors by making sure Diablo 2: Resurrected would not replace the first (like Warcraft 3: Reforged did for Warcraft 3). However, these marginal changes put a bad precedent for future Blizzard remasters.
Remasters and remakes have become a core part of many developer release strategies because of their relative simplicity to create compared to new IPs. Blizzard can spend a small part of its own dev power to churning out remasters of its classic matches to make a fast gain and satiate fans since they await its larger jobs, like Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. However, Diablo 2: Resurrected treads a fine line between staying loyal to the first and re-selling a match from 2000.
Developer Vicarious Visions partnered with Cheap Diablo 2 Items Blizzard to create Diablo 2: Resurrected, which could bode well for the remaster. However, both Vicarious Visions' past releases were bundles of two matches under a single name.
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