"Soon" shall make no contract or warranty between Blizzard Entertainment and the end user. "Soon" does not imply any particular date, time, decade, century, or millennia in the past, present, and certainly not the future. *copyright 2002-2010 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. For those that missed the irony, see year 2003.Īlso a 3 DVD-set featuring all Blizzard game cinematics up until then (including Diablo II) was released. Halfway into the year Blizzard announced a new significant patch will soon be available.
This year did however see one of the clearest embodiments of the soon (tm)*. year saw no new Diablo II patches, it was what many players refer back as the "Golden era" of diablo II online play. Minor patches, patch 1.09b, patch 1.09c, and patch 1.09d, were also added later during the same year. These items were illegally sold for obscene prices, up to a hundred USD. It was also the beginning of the era of the infamous ITH items, where the anti-hacking method called the rust storm had deleted duped runes included in runewords, leaving the runeword's mods unchanged but freeing up the sockets on them.
This was in essence the era of running classes, such as the Bowazon. Patch 1.09 was released on August 20th, two months after the initial release of the expansion. This caused some controversy among players of the original game when the challenge of Nightmare and Hell difficulties was increased for the classic games as well, and players protested feeling that it was in essence forcing them to buy the expansion. The expansion basically revamped the entire core game while adding a fifth act ( see Act V) and two new character classes (the Druid and Assassin).
However, patch 1.08 was made available the day the expansion was sold. Continued to be released in a very rapid pace, and by the time Diablo II's expansion, Lord of Destruction, shipped, the expansion came in patch 1.07 ( the same version as its beta was in).
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