At the time, the depth of content that the Diablo 2: Lord of Destructionexpansion added was more or less unheard of.Īt present, Lord of Destruction stands in the company of its contemporaries like Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors or Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne, which both shared the same Herculean task of improving on beloved original games. When Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction came out, it saw great praise from critics and skyrocketed to become one of the best-selling games of 2001. If they don't add enough new content or don't dramatically spruce up the game in a significant way, fans can be disappointed. I wouldn't fault anyone for not wanting to jump in.Expansion packs can tend to be more harshly scrutinized in the gaming community compared to base games. Though Resurrected wasn't handled by Blizzard, but instead by developer Vicarious Visions, this is still an important property for Blizzard. Then, this summer, Blizzard was hit with a lawsuit by the state of California over allegedly creating a hostile environment for its female workers. In 2019, the company sided with China after a Hearthstone player defiantly proclaimed his support for an independent Hong Kong. Today's Blizzard, however, is rife with controversy instead of excellence. Then, with World of Warcraft, Blizzard would go on to reinvent the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (aka the MMORPG genre). It created a sequel that blew away the original Diablo, while also creating incredible strategy games like Warcraft and Starcraft. When Diablo was released in 2000, Blizzard was at its apex. That's not the only thing that's lost its charm. That need to hunt down better gear has become such a staple in subsequent games that it's worn out its charm for me. The point of the game went from trying to stop Diablo to getting the most epic loot possible. It was amazing to play through the game and discover that when you started on a higher difficulty level you got a whole mess of new equipment, making everything you'd previously had look like utter crap. On its initial release, the original Diablo 2 had a unique charm. How great does this look? Activision Blizzard

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