New official Diablo 2 patch coming ...

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If someone had offered a bet that Blizzard would release another content
update for Diablo II, I would have accepted it ... and now lost it. They
announced a new upcoming patch (1.11) on http://www.battle.net/ (news from
July 29th). No release date has been mentioned, though some Tawainese site
quoted a August release (see alt.games.diablo),

Now, what does this mean? A content update for a five years old game,
especially after Blizzard's previous statement THAT 1.10 would be the last
update of the game? Is this a hint at Diablo 3? Or is it releated to the
plans to port D2 to the next-gen consoles?

I'm really surprised at this. Blizzard seemed to be very caught up in WoW,
and D2 with its free online playing didn't seem to fit into their plans.

M.

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"Nostromo" <nostromo@spamfree.net.au> wrote in message
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> Oooh, I still have D2 installed...might take it for a spin when the patch
> is
> out. Any patch notes as yet?

Thats the thing isn't it, D2 is just one of the classics

Ceo-

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Michael Vondung <mvondung@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>If someone had offered a bet that Blizzard would release another content
>update for Diablo II, I would have accepted it ... and now lost it. They
>announced a new upcoming patch (1.11) on http://www.battle.net/ (news from
>July 29th). No release date has been mentioned, though some Tawainese site
>quoted a August release (see alt.games.diablo),
>
>Now, what does this mean? A content update for a five years old game,
>especially after Blizzard's previous statement THAT 1.10 would be the last
>update of the game? Is this a hint at Diablo 3? Or is it releated to the
>plans to port D2 to the next-gen consoles?
>
>I'm really surprised at this. Blizzard seemed to be very caught up in WoW,
>and D2 with its free online playing didn't seem to fit into their plans.

Maybe that's why they're putting out a 1.11 patch - to kill off D2
already and get those people over to WoW.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:35:06 +0200, Michael Vondung
<mvondung@gmail.com> wrote:

>If someone had offered a bet that Blizzard would release another content
>update for Diablo II, I would have accepted it ... and now lost it. They
>announced a new upcoming patch (1.11) on http://www.battle.net/ (news from
>July 29th). No release date has been mentioned, though some Tawainese site
>quoted a August release (see alt.games.diablo),
>
>Now, what does this mean? A content update for a five years old game,
>especially after Blizzard's previous statement THAT 1.10 would be the last
>update of the game? Is this a hint at Diablo 3? Or is it releated to the
>plans to port D2 to the next-gen consoles?
>
>I'm really surprised at this. Blizzard seemed to be very caught up in WoW,
>and D2 with its free online playing didn't seem to fit into their plans.
>
>M.

If it includes new Sets, or new content, I may need to reinstall...

--

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes !
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses !
And what's with all the carrots ?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway ?
Bunnies ! Bunnies ! It must be BUNNIES !

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On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:12:48 -0300, Marilyn E. Burford wrote:

> If one were to buy Diablo2 - Lord of Destruction now, which version would
> you end up with? Still the same as when I bought LoD the year it came out?

Probably the same one (1.07?), but as soon as you connect to battle.net, it
will auto-update to 1.10. The update can be downloaded manually, too.

M.

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In article <33hse19u7vi85f8bulv3kp8pgjmovnjdk1@4ax.com>, bk039@ncf.ca
says...
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:44:31 +1000, Nostromo <nostromo@spamfree.net.au>
> wrote:
>
> >>Didn't they also make it much harder to arrange battle.net games for
> >>Diablo sometime later as well?
> >
> >Yeah, they clamped down on all the free hosted BNet clones, claming that
> >because they couldn't simulate the real BNet password checks that pirated
> >versions could get online. Or some specious, self-serving, money-grubbing
> >argument like that .
>
> Basically, they claimed it bypassed the CD-Key check. In addition, they
> also claimed that bNetD ripped the source from Battle.net, since it
> emulated known flaws.

And it should be noted that those supporting bNetD, such as the EFF,
suddenly and silently melted away when the emulated bugs were
described. (As if any honest person believed their story about a
clean-room implementation anyway...)

- Gerry Quinn