In 2021. That's all Blizzard has said thus far about Diablo 2 Items the expected release date for Diablo II: Resurrected. But given that we know about the release date for Diablo IV is it will be out on a day in a year which hopefully falls within this decade, I'm pleased to know I just need to mark my calendar before 31 December 2021 for Resurrected*. Unless, of course, Blizzard announces a delay. In which case I will rant endlessly on social networking and also to my mother.

Diablo 2: Resurrected was among those few Blizzcon 2021 announcements which will actually release this year. The title was described as a"loyal" remaster of the 2000 dungeon crawler Diablo 2, which Blizzard Entertainment will bring about life by enhancing the images of the first name. While this may freshen the 21-year-old match, the release sorely lacks many features players expect out of contemporary hack-and-slashers. Diablo 2: Resurrected launching appears to have learned from the controversial launch of Warcraft 3: Reforged, but it is another remake charging players for significantly less content.

The Diablo 2 remaster only slightly changes the first's two-decade-old user interface. It will lack crossplay at start, and its cross-progression attribute requires players to buy the game twice. Despite all that, Blizzard has obviously learned from its mistakes by ensuring Diablo 2: Resurrected would not replace the original (such as Warcraft 3: Reforged did for Warcraft 3). Still, these marginal changes set a terrible precedent for future Blizzard remasters.

Remasters and remakes have become a core component of several developer release strategies because of their relative simplicity to make compared to new IPs. Blizzard can invest a small portion of its own dev power to Cheap Diablo 2 Resurrected Items churn out remasters of its classic games to create a quick profit and satiate fans as they await its larger projects, such as Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. But Diablo 2: Resurrected treads a fine line between remaining loyal to the original and re-selling a match from 2000.