Diablo II Mysteries
Guild Icon Background
Called guildiconbckg.dc6, this page seems to show an option for players to select a guild tabard or banner for their guild. The coloring boxes indicate that the banners could have been colored differently by the players.
Sadly, this is just a background, and it appears Blizzard quickly scrapped their plans shortly after making this picture, for only one guild icon was ever finished, or is at least present in the game
It's very dark and not very clear. However looking at the backgrounds I really like most of the pictures. I think had they been implemented they would have worked very well in the Diablo setting. Although a few, like the Pentagram, would probably have been more popular than others
And notice the Cow banner option in the top right corner
Guild Bank
Called guildvault.dc6 in the game, the name leaves little guessing. Apparently plans were to implement a guild bank as well for guilds, something which is very common in many MMO's today.
What could the top area have been used for? Perhaps a log of what people had put in/removed? A message the guild leader could leave for his members?
And as some of you may notice, Blizzard's early philosophy of inventory space is maintained. The storage space is far from spacious, especially when considering that this would be for much more than a single person.
Bank
Simply called bank.dc6, this design seems to suggests that some sort of bank system was to be put into the game. However personally I think it more likely that this was an early design for the personal stash.
Once again, notice the storage space. Spacious to say the least :rolleyes:
Update: Apparently this is how the stash looked at release. I blame ten years for not remembering.
Trophies
trophycase.dc6 is an interesting picture. What exactly would trophies have been used for? Now some of you might be suggesting that this is where the Standard of Heroes is supposed to go, but keep in mind that these images all come from the Classic Diablo II files, and the Standard of Heroes was introduced in Patch 1.11, long after these plans and images had been scrapped.
What would trophies have been then? Perhaps an early version of what we generally call achievements these days? What do you think?
Update: spierce7 has pointed out that all of these Guild features were announced and subsequently dropped by Blizzard before Beta even began. The trophy hall was supposed to have been a guild feature, not a player feature. Read it here
Steegstone
This last picture is very ambiguous. It is simply called steegstonebckg.dc6 in the game, and that doesn't really say anything.
I'm theorizing that this is some form of profile page. The top left appears to be a place for a picture, most likely of the character class. The large box to the left could be for stats and the large to the right for skills and items. The right button also seems to be scrollable, suggesting a lot of info could go in there.
The field with the star indicates some sort of title. Is this where Slayer/Champion etc would have been displayed, or perhaps would a title earned in the aforementioned Trophy system be displayed here?
Update: T'hain Esh Kelch has suggested that this last picture might actually be how the guild chat would have looked. If you look closely, the black box in the left corner is the same size as the guild banner backgrounds shown earlier in this post. It would make sense for guilds to have a guild interface to interact with each other with.
Update 2: spierce7 pointed out that the steeg stone was a feature used to upgrade your guild. By adding gold, players could upgrade their guild to new levels, adding more functionality and features to it. Read it here
Lots of mysteries. Let the speculation begin
Maybe they'll use some of these ideas in D3.
I hope that doesn't happen.
If anything, they should implement some of these things for 1.13
I just pray the Blizzard doesn't cut things like this out of DIII due to time constraints.
One can always hope
I would like to think that it would be trophies showing you what you had done. Standard of Heroes could be one, perhaps one for killing some random mob, or killing Diablo on Hell and similar. Although those kind of trophies would be kind of useless to have in your own inventory. I mean, why would you want to have an item telling you you beat Diablo. You would probably know that
I don't think we'll get any of these in 1.13. There's probably very little in the way of coding done for it. If there was, it seems likely that some of these things would have been implemented along the road since release.
But perhaps the bank picture was how they imagined a shared stash? You would be able to put a few items there for all characters to access? Maybe that would be something to appear in 1.13 if anything.
I like the trophies idea.. should have been implemented.
They have spent more then enough time to make a patch, why not throw this in there? The theories and everything are already drawn up, simply have to code it in and BAM Diablo 2 is suddenly new again.
Ty
I did some searching and found information from LONG LONG ago on this. Apparently Blizzard released information on guilds in D2 before the game actually came out. They were actually going to have Guild Hall's and everything. Almost anything you could want to know is here: http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Archives:_Guild_Halls
If you don't want to read it all, let me call attention to a few things. First, what is the steeg stone that your talking about up there?
What were Blizzard's plans?
That covers the more interesting of the information. Everything else can be seen within the link.
EDIT: I found this too interesting not to include. Apparently this is the only Guild Hall screen shot we have. It was released on the official Blizzard site if the wiki is correct (look at the potion belt... this thing is old). If you read the long paragraph talking about it, it says "Each member of the guild hall will have their own virtual storage chest, much like the stash works in town in each Act, except that the guild hall stash is far larger, comprising multiple pages of items, much like the selection a vendor has." Again, I think this is what the section above the guild bank is for. Selecting different stashes. Here's the link: http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Image:D2-guild-hall1.jpg
EDIT 2:Sorry for double posting, but this was too interesting to not make mention of, and its completely different from what was previously talked about. This is code pulled from the d2data.mpq. I've highlighted the places that are particularly interesting:
Take a look at some of the things I put in bold. Surely some of those would have been used to populate the above pictures. Things like "Guild Website", "Guild Master", there were things shown for how much gold the guild currently has in the steeg stone, and how much gold is needed to be put into the steeg stone in order to upgrade the guild area.
The thing that I found particularly interesting was that
"Guild 1, strGuild1, "Guild 1"
Guild 2, strGuild2, "Guild 2"
Guild 3, strGuild3, "Guild 3"
Guild 4, strGuild4, "Guild 4"
Guild 5, strGuild5, "Guild 5"
To Guild 5, strToGuild5, "To Guild 5"
To Guild 4, strToGuild4, "To Guild 4"
To Guild 3, strToGuild3, "To Guild 3"
To Guild 2, strToGuild2, "To Guild 2"
To Guild 1, strToGuild1, "To Guild 1" "
The above implies you might have been able to be in more than 1 guild... Which doesn't sound very right.
Another thought: The trophy case was something that was meant for the guild. It wasn't for individuals.