Following the announcement of Diablo III at the 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitationals, merely 9 days ago, Gamasutra reports that sales of the seven-year-old RPG hack 'n slash game Diablo II Battle Chest has risen considerably on last week's worldwide sale charts.
The Diablo II Battle Chest took the lead on North American PC sales as the #1 in the Top 5 Sales. On the United Kingdom charts, the Diablo II Battle Chest received the 4th spot.
At this rate, Game Stores around the world will be out of stock of any remaining copies. If your area already is out of stock and you wish to get your hands on Diablo II and Lord of Destruction expansion, your only option at this point is to head to the Blizzard Store to purchase a digital download of the game. It is now available after the Diablo III announcement. Blizzard Entertainment most likely foresaw this prior to the announcement. A clever planning.
i moved house like three years ago which is like 700miles, and lost my copies during the move. Bought Diablo II and LoD 'best series' for, what is like, 7U$D.
Probably not as long, because supposedly shortly after, they'll be making Diablo 4. OR atleast by the time you lose it, if you can last a while.
i agree haha, diablo ftw
xD
on that note, sadly i live i moved from canada to the UAE here due to work reasons, and 8 years ago when Diablo II came out it wasnt released here for religious reasons :mad:
although i still have my cds i have lost my cd key for LoD and now im forced to play the single player only.
if anyone has an extra CD for LoD that they could Pm with i would certainly try to make it up to them somehow
or maybe someone could pm with one and i'll play on a different sever
Yes after the announcement I also went back and checked on mine. I discovered that I had the DVD, soundtrack CD and the Game CDs scattered abount various locations in my house. I reunited all of the items back into the original box. Mine is numbered 69,000 something. I remember it was in the high 69,000 range out of a possible 70,000.
Looks like I got lucky and got one of the last few thousand boxes.
Also since I do not paper game the AD&D stuff is 100% intact with none of the paper elements punched out of the sheets. I have little or no idea what the thing is worth, but unless someone wants to give me $1000 for it the thing is not for sale
And a few months ago I wanted to go back to D2X and could not find my D2X CD. I went to a local "Super" supermarket and at that time they had about 5 copies of D2X in the smallish box with the flap for $19.99.
I was there yesterday and all copies are gone and no battle chest either.
It is amazing when things like this give life to older material. It was like when Pink Floyd reunited with Roger at the Live8 deal all of their old albums started selling zillions of copies again.
I wonder if this new surge in D2X players will give Bliz some reason to make a new patch that is more than just Uber bosses. Maybe increase the character levels beyond 99 and revamp some character skills like they did with the synergies? Just dreamin!
Hellfire is easily available on the more shifty peer to peer sites, but I would not recommened torrenting this title for the following reasons:
1. Blizzard is a cool enough company that makes cool games and deserve our support.
2. Blizzard watches torrent sites and unless you know how to hide they complain to your ISP that you have pirated a title of theirs. A buddy I know got a warning from Comcast that he had torrented Starcraft. He was a dumb*$$ and should have just bought the thing as it was in a bin for like $9 at We-Will-Destroy-You-Puny-Indy-Retailer-Mart.
3. Hellfire sucks and is not worth stealing much less buying.
The moral of all this is that torrenting should only be used to rip of Metallica songs even if you don't like Metallica as Lars Ulrich is a fool who is pissed that he is going bald so he takes out his frustration of having a small package out on his fans. Oh and never outsource Diablo work, even something as small as a little add-on pack. Although the guy in the cow constume was funny.
But Blizzard is a sweet company who has yet to let us down and deserve all our support! :thumbsup:
Can you even buy a legit copy of Hellfire anymore? I had borrowed a friends CD back in the day and that's why I know what it was like, but I have not seen the thing for sale in years.
Blizzard didn't make Hellfire though, Sierra did
some games are not worth buying