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Haha, I would have beat you to it if I could have made a thread :D, but I did reply to the other one

However, this announcement is quite a disappointment...how hard would it have been to say the patch has been delayed due to other circumstances beyond our control back in May? And his response is classic, "not really" and "it is nearing"...sometime in the future I suppose....:confused:

Well, everyone grab a drink and sit back until July when we will get the next update about the patch progress...

That's unfortunate it was put on hold.

Well, I hope some interesting things are announced, and yay for ladder reset.

wwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyy!?!?!?!??!?!?! UUUGGGGGHHHH i was so happy today untill now

Dissapointing..

So much waiting this year..

At least they said something..I thought I was going to be waiting until August or something...lol

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Ah, sorry, I forgot to slip in the word "beta" there.

Ugh, well thanks for the blue balls Blizz...geez. What a waitfest this has all been. At least we know the truth, hopefully comes out THIS month.

Well that sucks but what can ya do :P. Heres hoping we see it before the end of this month(unlikely:()

Well, can't really blame them, except for not keeping us informed

lulz u would have had to wait either way... this way just would have made it longer wondering when they were gonna commence making of the patch lolz

I really wonder what is in this patch that is taking so long to be put out, even if they just held it off for a month. Unless they just started developing the patch recently and all that's in it is some bug fixes and a ladder reset.

(Would LOVE for the "failed to join game" bug fixed)

Nah, they were working on it before:

Quote from Bashiok »

We try to give everyone at least a two week notice before a ladder reset. When it became apparent that the patch could potentially launch in two weeks, we put up an announcement just in case.

Now, even though no promises were given it's going to create some hope that it will be out, but we can only do so much to balance between expectation and information that's necessary for the community to have.

(Source.)

Good, I hate a lot of the bugs in D2 :P. Wonderful, if they fix the most annoying ones :).

Blizzard would have never pulled a stunt like this one or many other offensive things 10 years ago. But because of wow and all the success they think their stuff don't stink. Look I'll play the patch and diablo iii. But as a company I've lost all respect for them. After all is us fans that keep the company going we shouldn't be treated like this. This Bashiok character needs to start phrasing things a little better and throwing a couple of "I'm sorries" would not hurt either.

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Guys, i must really know this: Why on earth would you still be playing diablo 2? I can't get my head around it.
Sure it was a helluva fun game back then. Hell, that game made me reapeat a year in High school.
But now, every time i fire it up i get this been there done that feeling, i know like every friggin' rock or grain of sand in that game.
What's still so fun that people are so intrested in it that they keep pestering Blizzard for new patches.
Dont you guys think that the dudes at Blizz HQ can better spend their time making D3 even more awesome?

Umm because Diablo1 and 2 are totally awesome!!! And theres not alot of games that can compete with it!

Quote from "Cratus" »

Guys, i must really know this: Why on earth would you still be playing diablo 2? I can't get my head around it.
Sure it was a helluva fun game back then. Hell, that game made me reapeat a year in High school.
But now, every time i fire it up i get this been there done that feeling, i know like every friggin' rock or grain of sand in that game.
What's still so fun that people are so intrested in it that they keep pestering Blizzard for new patches.
Dont you guys think that the dudes at Blizz HQ can better spend their time making D3 even more awesome?

The Diablo III team is separate from the legacy team, which works on patching and maintaining their older games. So no, if they were not working on Diablo II, work on Diablo III would not be any better since they're different teams.

I think one of the main reasons that I keep coming back to it is simply because it was a large part of my childhood. It's a bit of a part of whom I am and what I want to become. No, I don't mean I want to become a Necromancer What I mean is, it has inspired different things in me- an interest in web technologies, writing, being creative, helping people who need it, among many other things.

It's much the same as if I had been some kid that grew up playing baseball. Baseball never gets any different- it's always the same game, same rules- but if you grew up on it, it's as integral to you as any body part. It's what you enjoy doing. It's what inspires you in some ways, even if at first they are not self-evident.

Yes, it's a game. But it was much more than that.

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The Diablo III team is separate from the legacy team, which works on patching and maintaining their older games. So no, if they were not working on Diablo II, work on Diablo III would not be any better since they're different teams.

I think one of the main reasons that I keep coming back to it is simply because it was a large part of my childhood. It's a bit of a part of whom I am and what I want to become. No, I don't mean I want to become a Necromancer What I mean is, it has inspired different things in me- an interest in web technologies, writing, being creative, helping people who need it, among many other things.

It's much the same as if I had been some kid that grew up playing baseball. Baseball never gets any different- it's always the same game, same rules- but if you grew up on it, it's as integral to you as any body part. It's what you enjoy doing. It's what inspires you in some ways, even if at first they are not self-evident.

Yes, it's a game. But it was much more than that.

Your my idol 100% agreed lol

Quote from "Cratus" »

Guys, i must really know this: Why on earth would you still be playing diablo 2? I can't get my head around it.
Sure it was a helluva fun game back then. Hell, that game made me reapeat a year in High school.
But now, every time i fire it up i get this been there done that feeling, i know like every friggin' rock or grain of sand in that game.
What's still so fun that people are so intrested in it that they keep pestering Blizzard for new patches.
Dont you guys think that the dudes at Blizz HQ can better spend their time making D3 even more awesome?

Well, a lot of people still enjoy the games, due to their insane replayability value.
A new patch would probably redesign the game as well, since they are running a test realm before releasing it, which leads me to beleive that they are making radical changes that they will want to test out on the players.

There are also a few mods that have kept the game fresh for me, Median XL and Eastern Sun to name two, there are countless others out there. Though few are worth playing.