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I’m no programmer but my guess would be to prevent people from cracking and playing the game like in the alpha version. I know you had to the launch the game with the TCP/IP button with the cracked version.Blizzard has quietly announced that they're removing TCP/IP multiplayer from Diablo 2 Resurrected
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Down in the FAQ section.
Is it though? This was a company that basically copied other people's designs, iterated on them a lot, and never really innovated at all.
Blizzard's innovation in gaming was making reliably quality products. The fact their stuff usually just worked was against the industry standard.
Its a security issue, sure. But the original game had it.
Well obviously, but it still sucks, and might affect some of the modding stuff. And it's unlikely this won't be piratable anyway, unlike D3 which was entirely reliant on the servers to do anything.
i dunno, WoW always felt like carebear Everquest to me, but a lot of people liked that kind of gameplay and it wasnt time intensive, when i quit EQ i could play a few hours of WoW and feel like i was making progress, where in EQ it took you a few hours just to learn how to do stuff and venture outside of your home city. they should have been able to keep innovating and making the game more fun and interesting.
I think they just got too good at making gameplay that is addictive and obligation-filled and yet not fun.
They didn't really innovate in the first place, so there was nothing to "keep innovating."
Blizzard has always been good at the whole 'different, but balanced' thing. Unfortunately, that has worked against them, as the prevalence of data and simulation has completely removed the relevance of experimental and experiential gameplay towards making a decision; people just go on a website and let the website tell them the best choices to make, and rob themselves of the fun of actually trying to make interesting combinations work.
Their MO was always to steal other ideas from games and "Blizzardify" them. The problem is that once they started starving out the MMO market, there were no new MMOs for them to steal ideas from. After that, they started stealing from shit like D3 and, with Shadowlands, indie roguelikes.
