For years fans have been asking Blizzard to fix the bugs and exploits. Yes there might be a few exploits and the odd minor bug here and there, but considering the age of the game and how programmer/QA time is involved in a release (even a really small one) I will live with the small bugs (I have not come across any but I don't play online or that often) and be happy I can play the game on modern hardware instead of saying remember that great game that no longer runs on my Mac?īlizzard is the one who started the thread and asked the fans. I can think of lots of games from the same era that are OS 8 and Windows 98 only which no longer even run at all (but you can still find in the odd bargain bin) but Blizzard have kept Diablo II alive and running. The fact they still support it this long after the game was first made is amazing and I actually use Blizzard as an example of how a company can get a community that follow them as well as their games because they keep them patched and working long after release. I paid for this in a "bestsellers" bundle pack (with the expansion) for about £10 (~$20) about 4 years ago in a PC bargain bin, as the disks also had the Mac exe's on it.
Asking for new features on a game or modifying the logic to change how the game works (for free) over 8 years after it was first made is demanding quite a lot. The removal of the CD check and fixing the OpenGL issues on Intel machines I would say is a big fix. Wow, as this is a game that I have nothing to do with apart from being a massive fan I have to say that you do seem to be very ungrateful for the patch. This is it? This is all the patch does? What about the approximately 40-pages of posts on Blizzard forums with bugs, exploits, and features desired by fans? All of those posts have clearly been ignored and this was the mighty patch.
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