I don't know about you, but I was really surprised when Blizzard rolled out a new patch for Diablo 2 last month. The game is 16 years old, after all, and it was the first update the game had seen since 2011. But whatever the studio had in mind apparently didn't get done, because another update has just been released.
Diablo II 1.14a Patch - Nebu It’s been a long time coming, but today we're releasing 1.14a for Diablo II. January 4th, 2016. - Nebu Remember 2 years ago when I said, hey thanks for visiting? Well thanks for visiting again. We keep track of your visits. July 16th, 2014. Share Blizzard just released a new patch for Diablo 2, five years after the last one tweet share Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Blizzard rolled out a new update for Diablo 2 this week, bringing the.
As the 1.14b name suggests, it's really more of an update to the update that fixes some relatively minor issues that slipped through the last time. According to the “Early patch notes” posted in the Diablo 3 subreddit, it makes the following changes:
“While we’d like every release to be bug free, you—our stalwart community—discovered, reported, and communicated methods to replicate the issues so we could fix them as quickly as possible,” Blizzard wrote in the Battle.net forums. “We couldn’t ask for better partners in this endeavor and we appreciate your understanding and patience as we get Diablo II into a state we’re all happy with.”
As to exactly why Blizzard is updating these old games (it did the same with the nearly-as-decrepit Warcraft 3), the only hint I've seen so far came late last year, shortly after a job listing for a “Senior Software Engineer, Classic Games' went up. “We have a history of maintaining our games for many years,” it said at the time. “Our earlier games are still played and enjoyed today, so we want to continue to maintain them for those communities.”
And it sounds like there may be more to come: “Keep offering feedback while beating back the minions of the Burning Hells,” Blizzard wrote in the patch announcement, “and we’ll keep upholding our part.”
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Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - v.1.14d | patch | 6 MB | 6/16/2016 | 61.6K | 552 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Median XL Ultimative v.2017 1.3.2 | mod | 303.6 MB | 7/8/2018 | 33.4K | 159 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Enjoy-SP Mod v.1.7 | mod | 323.4 KB | 3/11/2018 | 6.4K | 153 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - The Sin War v.3.32 HD | mod | 148.2 MB | 3/12/2019 | 6.7K | 83 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Stra-D2Mod v.1.7 | mod | 470.8 MB | 3/12/2019 | 2.6K | 72 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Battle for Elements v.1.60 | mod | 103 MB | 7/11/2015 | 3.8K | 68 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Diablo II SP Enhancement Mod v.1.6 | mod | 6.2 MB | 5/21/2018 | 1.5K | 38 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - The Forces of Darkness v.22012019 | mod | 93.4 MB | 3/12/2019 | 697 | 37 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Eastern Sun v3.6d | mod | 79.2 MB | 1/4/2015 | 7.2K | 26 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Path of Diablo | mod | 631.5 KB | 10/16/2017 | 2.3K | 26 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Glory of Nephilim v.23012019r2 | mod | 14.5 MB | 3/9/2019 | 4.1K | 23 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Reaper Of Souls v.6.0 | mod | 43.6 MB | 1/14/2018 | 2.5K | 22 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Reign of Shadow v.0.90 Final | mod | 303.8 MB | 3/12/2019 | 1.7K | 22 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Diablo II: Unforgiven v.34 | mod | 54.7 MB | 3/11/2018 | 1.7K | 20 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - Is Alive v. Full | mod | 5.1 MB | 11/2/2015 | 4.3K | 20 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction - UVLoD v.1.40.5 | mod | 4.8 MB | 1/14/2018 | 2K | 17 |