According to a job listing, Warcraft III and Diablo 2 may receive a remaster treatment in the near future. Blizzard has been looking for a Senior Software Engineer and according to this job listing, Blizzard will be restoring Warcraft III, StarCraft and Diablo 2 to glory.
We already know that StarCraft will receive a remaster later this Summer, so our guess is that both Warcraft III and Diablo 2 will get a remastered treatment.
Still, we cannot exclude the possibility of a simple re-release (that works on modern-day operating systems).
Naturally, Blizzard has not commented yet on this, however we are pretty sure that the company will reveal these projects sooner than later.
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“We already know that StarCraft will receive a remaster later this Summer”
i thought thats been out for awhile now?
The free version of StarCraft is available. The remaster is not out yet
oh,ok. thanks. didnt know there was a difference.
Enough with remastered…….who am I kidding?Bring it.
D2 remaster would be fantastic it still has a better atmosphere than 3.
If they really re master 2 I am going to freak out. D2 is my all time favorite ARPG, I still play it all the time.
Exactly. They really shouldn’t give it the D3 treatment. Also, always online… they better not do that 🙁
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perfection.
nah the cow could be dead
LOL 🙂
They can milk this all they want lol. Fact is, a lot of PC gamers would die to play a remastered Diablo 2.
That game was flipping amazing at the time
Can’t wait to play Diablo 2 again! I died more times than in Dark Souls, but when I finally beat it the sense of achievement was overwhelming, unlike in Diablo 3 which I beat on Hard difficulty while playing the game for the first time and died only on one occasion because I had to answer the phone and couldn’t pause the game.
“because I had to answer the phone and couldn’t pause the game.”
Ah, the sorrows of life ;D
so this is what is now eh?
“we remaster good old games because we’re too lazy to develop new ones”
More like “we remaster good old games because we’re too incompetent to make new ones worth their salt, anymore.”
which is kinda strange since legacy of the void was pretty good (though the ending sucked)
it’s probably activi$ion trying to make maximum profit and minimum effort
Microsoft is doing the same with their age of empires games, not even 3D remake, just slap some new textures and revamp the engine to 4K compatibility
and charge 20$ (might be UMP exclusive too)
literally i’ve spent YEARS playing those games and i kept wondering
“why they stopped making RTS games…” and after seeing CoH2 i’ve known why
because microtransactions don’t sell well with RTS, and these goblin publishers only want money, plus microshaft fired the best RTS studio for no apparent reason
also EA killed off C&C, and blizzard? time will tell
but as of right now warcraft is dead…
Na, Activision operates separately from Blizzard. Yeah, the upper echelons are merged, but the day-to-day affairs are completely separate. The problem with Blizzard, best I can tell, is a mixture of “too many fanboys grown up & hired as developers (which is what ruined D3)” & “too many old codgers being promoted to positions they don’t deserve” which has (inevitably) resulted in serious quality degradation, as oh-so-acutely exemplified by World of Sh*tcraft.
I’m really not sure how Starcraft made it to the end in one piece (albeit, even so, it is an inferior experience to the original entry, to be fair), but I expect it was really just a fluke, more than anything; unlike Diablo 3 which was made by a bunch of fanboys that thought they knew better than the original creators, the SC team was just continuing down the established route, with some minor changes for mainstreaming, Battle-Net, etc.
And really, most of the story issues WoW has can be near-entirely attributed to the top echelon morons who kept rewriting the sh*t out of stuff for the sake of over-extending the story as much as possible, in order to generate as many potential Expansions as possible, whereas Starcraft is, in the end, a relatively self-contained affair, really.
Fanboys in moderation can definitely be great (new blood, fresh ideas, old codgers aren’t choking the sh*t out of everything anymore etc.), but when they get absolute power, they more often than not end up getting sidetracked with “improving” the game according to what they think is best at the expense of the IP’s original vision, which results in us ending up with sh*t like this, unfortunately;
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I mean, it really speaks miles that the Diablo 2 clone Path of Exile (which was also made by A-RPG fans) made way more inroads with the A-RPG fanbase than Diablo 3 ever did – especially in the long term.
But yeah, it’s very case-by-case. If you eliminate the old entirely, you’re likely to result with something completely different, completely moronic, whereas if you hold on to the old, you’re likely to end up with a moron in charge who just wants to keep rewriting what he’s already written until the end of time. If you can find a balance between the two, then you can achieve symbiosis. Otherwise, you end up with Quake Champions or some such bullsh*t.
Or
“We remaster old games because people would really love to play them and we can make good money”.
You know, like every other company doing remasters.
I, for one, am ecstatic if we get a Diablo 2 remaster. So long as it isn’t online only… if it is, then Blizzard can go and die.
If the Starcraft remaster turns out to be good, then both the WC3 & D2 remasters will indeed be something to look forward to (assuming they’re decently priced). Otherwise, meh.
As for the always-online thing, that was really just because of the RMAH, though because they designed the game around it being always-online in order to secure the RMAH as best as possible, they’d have to put in effort to take all of its various systems offline & if there’s one thing Blizzard does best is being lazy at doing such things, so yeah.
Besides, I doubt they have to balls to try always-online again, especially not with the inevitable backslash it would induce.
JUST DON’T.
Leave the classics alone AND create new ips OR a new D3 expansion/D4 that is worthy.
Plz blizzz
Luh u
From a cheerful customer.
They sh*tcanned the second D3 expansion in favour of drip-feeding us the content behind paywalls, instead, so, yeah, they’re done with D3 & I think they’re piss-scared of touching D4 at this point, so I guess this is all they’ve left to do.
I think you might be just right. 🙁
Same 🙁 , still a remaster of D2 for me would be a dream come true so I am cool with that(better than nothing).
Man I really wonder what they will do with D4?? Probably 2-4 years out….
According to Activisions Quarterly Financial Statement they claim that Diablo 3 sold 30 million copies making it the 10th best selling game ever. So, yeah they will milk D3 for as long as they still can. Look at how long they’ve been milking WoW for. 13 years. There’s just no doubt that Blizzard knows how to milk a game for every last dollar.
(Note that’s combined numbers of Diablo III + Reaper of Souls, across all 3 platforms)
Yeah, but once they closed down RMAH, post-launch profits slowed down to a crawl compared to how WoW still generates “plenty” of profits for them through its mandatory subscription system. Plus, as already mentioned, they even sh*tcanned the second expansion in favour of trying to sell the new Necromancer class to us for I-don’t-even-remember-how-much anymore, all while disregarding fixing major critical issues that still plague the game, because lazy.
Sure, they could probably make a pretty penny out of Diablo 4, but at the same time, the IP’s reputation has been seriously damaged by this point due to not just D3’s horrible launch – in regards to both gameplay & tech issues (yeah, they fixed both in the end, but still), but also due to post-launch support & the considerable lack thereof. The long-promised Arena System, for example, never came into being, after years of “it’s coming” statements. It’s now been officially cancelled in favour of that piece of sh*t joke PvP system they’ve put in place, instead.
There used to be rumours they were working on a World of Diablo MMO sequel-type thing, but I doubt if they want to take on another project of that magnitude anymore. At this point I think regardless of what else they may &/or may not add to Diablo 3, they just want to shelve the IP, rather than go to work on a new major iteration.
Really, the only thing I don’t understand is why Diablo 3 still doesn’t have an offline mode, especially since Blizzard is obviously too lazy to properly balance the gear from season to season, anymore, as of…. how many years are we at, now? F*ck.
A streamer (disguisedtoast) found a bug in Hearthstone, they banned him for 3 days.
Mention a bug or a broken interaction or an unbalanced thing in any of their games in their forums, you will get f**ked by fanboys and blizzard loves it.
F**k, i mentioned an offline patch for D3 once, in in-game chat, they told me i should stop pirating games. official In-Game chatbox! which can only be used when you have the legit game.
I call it the Cult of Blizzard & I’m pretty sure it’s not just one of the oldest, but also one of the most collectively sycophantic (read:
die-hard moronic).
That is so toxic….
D3 was doomed from the start the moment they abandoned the leveling/stat distribution/itemization mechanics of D2. Despite having refined combat mechanics which add a lot of needed punch, they severely degraded the overall depth which made D2 such an addicting and fund experience. It became a glorified action adventure game, no thought put into it, a simple DPS measuring stick with only a handful of builds made possible by the devs overinflating dmg numbers on certain sets. It has more in common with WoW in terms of overall game design than it has with D1/D2.
It’s a pathetic excuse for an ARPG as it has so little of the Diablo DNA left in it besides the name. Add to that the laughably cheesy and force-fed Blizzard $outh attempt at expanding the Diablo story with their “EPIC” writing and you have yourself an abomination best left to rot. Blizzard $outh’s arrogance and complete lack of understanding of what made the Diablo games so unique is why they have thrown in the towel, they simply have no idea what made the first two Diablo games work.
Unless they fire the current D3 development team (or what’s left of it) and hire the people who made D1/D2 what they were, then the Diablo franchise may as well fade away. In a decade or two people will still play and cherish D2 for its clever use of narrative and revolutionary ARPG game mechanics, while D3 will be put out its misery.
“It has more in common with WoW in terms of overall game design than it has with D1/D2.”
Exactly. That, definitely, but the rest of it too.
Though, I’d settle for either the Torchlight team (the Diablo creators went on to make Torchlight), or the Path of Exile team, personally, as the PoE blokes (also now-adult A-RPG fans) have shown themselves to be ridiculously dedicated to their project. That & throw in a good writer from some New York Times besteller list or some such, I guess.
Thank God, I spent unhealthy amount of times with these games and they have special place in my heart. I hope they decide to pump maybe some new content in, but I doubt it. Also it should be free to owners or at least some reasonable price… Spent 40 pounds on d3 and I rarely play it and regreting it to this day.
“I hope they decide to pump maybe some new content in”
“Also it should be free to owners or at least some reasonable price”
Yeah, sorry, but no. It’s Blizzard we’re talking about here, they’re going to milk the sh*t out of this just like the Starcraft remaster.
“Spent 40 pounds on d3 and I rarely play it and regreting it to this day.”
Likewise.
Why exactly should they work for free?
If you don’t want to pay fine don’t buy it. I’ll happily pay for a remaster of a great classic such as D2.
If they just redo texture,resolution etc. it would be nice if it’s free… I’ve already know how developers do their remasters-even kid could do it. Besides Skyrim did same thing. However remake is different thing and in that case price is justified-even if 20 or more pounds.
I think most people will expect the same deal as Starcraft. If they do anything less, people will seriously call them out for it.
I guess, but I’ll be buying it nontheless if it’s not free. We first have to see what they’ll do with necromancer pack.
There have been some great games like these two but most new gamers won’t go back and play them do to low graphics quality. This will be good for them but having played as much as I wanted of them I don’t plan to buy them.
Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 are my most played games. I actually still play them almost every day.
This is a dream come true, if they dont make them 60$. I would still buy them, even for 60 but yea.. it would suck hard. Those 2 remasters are basically the only things i ever wanted to be remastered. Those 2 and Age of Empires 2.
No problem with remasters, Just as long as it doesn’t deduct time away from new titles, Give us a new Warcraft and D4 game!