• grue@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I see how it exists for “Diablo II: Resurrected,” but how do people who own the original version of the game get it?

    (Not that I plan to pay Blizzard any more money – I’ve been boycotting them since not long after Diablo II came out the first time – but I still gotta ask for curiosity’s sake.)

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      22 hours ago

      I can’t tell if you’re kidding, but just in case: this is for the 2021 remastered version. They’re not making new paid content for a game that came out in 2000.

      • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works
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        20 hours ago

        So the headline is a lie. Diablo II isn’t getting its first expansion in 25 years. The Diablo II Remaster is getting its first expansion.

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              4 hours ago

              They are but they aren’t, and it seems mostly pedantic to hammer on that.

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                  3 hours ago

                  So Skyrim on Switch is not the same game as Skyrim on PC…?

                  Or even more obviously, Oblivion Remastered on the PC vs. Oblivion on the Xbox 360.

                  • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works
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                    For Skyrim, functionally, no. You can’t use mods from one version on the other. You can’t use saves from one version on the other. Its a port, but that’s beside the point for what I’m trying to say. Oblivion and the Remaster are not the same game full stop. Nor is Diablo II and its remaster. I still play the original Diablo II. I can’t play this expansion because it wasn’t made for Diablo II. It was made for the Remaster. The two games share the same DNA but they are not cross-compatible. Diablo II did not get updated. The Remaster did.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 hours ago

        The article is a bit unclear about it, but the article does say it’s for the remastered version. So their headline is misleading, and OP just used the official article title.

        So it’s a bad title. Unfortunately it’s poor form and considered misleading to change an article’s headline. Still, OP should have noted that the headline straight-up lies.