Official Blizzard Quote:
The Diablo II ladder will be resetting on September 28. When reset, all ladder characters will be moved to non-ladder. To play in the new ladder season you will need to create a new character.
Ladder Season 6 began on March 23rd along with 1.13c, and the first 99's were spotted less than a month later. Seems like this is Blizzard's way of showing their fans that D2 is still alive and kickin'. Here's a great way to get back into the game; I know i'll be playing.
it seems blizzard is the only company that can catch me hacking, (or at least the only one who cares to check...)
New ladder season now =/= fresh or new and improved...
I was about to start my push to 99 guess i won't even try now... not enough time to even hit 98
Hey!! I know you!!! On topic tho, I agree with you, it's both good and bad. The every 6-month cycle is what bothers me most...just seems almost pointless to build a character and acquire items that are just gonna be basically useless in 6-months. No doubt, I'll be splitting my time now between NL and Ladder. And yeah, it would be fantastic if the bot issue could be resolved, but like you, I'm also pretty confident that it would only be temporary. Guess it is what it is, and all our complaining's not gonna change anything, so I'll just roll with it as best I can, huh!
it'll be fun to work through the game with the whole community at the same time. Never came in right after a reset, so I wonder how it will be?
Fix the game blizzard, roll it back to pre-respec, actually do something about bots/hacks for a change, and maybe fix desynching or something thats actually broken? Either that or just admit defeat and release pub versions of bots and hacks to make the game fair for those who don't want to cheat.
You know...you could just play non ladder if you don't like the ladder concept, don't have to worry about resets then. Otherwise I'll agree the economy is broken if you agree to show me a perfectly geared character.
Thats funny, I seem to be able to create and play non ladder hardcore characters no problem.
Or were you just getting at you don't play non ladder hc because ladder is more populated, in which case, seems like ladder resets are a popular feature. Glad D3 is removing this system! GJ Bliz!
I think he's just getting at the fact that the majority of HC players purposely get their characters killed instead of having them go to NL. It's somewhat of a ritual i guess haha.
I would like to actually know the answer to the above post as well. I've never been around the day of a reset before myself.