It peaked in 2020 with the June Ladder reset due to the pandemic, and rode that through D2R reveal and eventually, launch. Even with a full regional gamelist, games were limited in time when you could find certain runs (when the bots ran) in Normal and Nightmare. Vanilla D2 was already on life support by the time D2R was announced. This is just looking at straight “Diablo 2” However, you can look at trends for Plugy Diablo 2 (looks like it trended in 2010), and Project Diablo 2, you will see more constant peaks and valleys (seasons probably in PD2 case over the past couple years). Going from 2010 (1.13 patch) to today, the game went down in trend fast then peaked up in 2012, then pretty much plateaued until 2018 where it spiked again, and another spike in 2019 (Blizzcon I assume), then rose and fall with more rising in 2020 (pandemic) then rose in 2021 (reveal for D2R) peaked it’s highest point at release since May of 2012, and went back down again (server issues) rose back up for 2.4, and started declining again shortly after ladder. You can check google trends for D2 popularity and you will see it´s just barely higher than it was in 2019 for example. How many Blizzard games are on consoles these last 2-3 gens? Diablo 3, OW and what else besides D2R? I figured from the moment that they put the game on consoles, that it was more than just a quick pc cash grab for nostalgia. I believe HoTS gets updates, and anything older, much was released last year as part of the arcade collection, and were single player/couch coop console games were the most part, not online multiplayer ones. Hearthstone gets updates (mtx), Overwatch 2 is going free to play model and will replace OW1. Now obviously, WoW gets updates due to being an MMO and a sub based game. Warcraft was a huge screw up, that seen the game pretty much abandoned until recently. However, Starcraft Remaster had a few updates, but they didn’t do much because of the very competitive nature of the game itself (which is direct competition as opposed to how competition works in Diablo 2). This is why D2R can be compared to Diablo 3, in terms of being maintained with updates.Īs for other Blizzard titles, I don’t play other Blizzard games beyond Diablo outside of some old SNES games like The Lost Vikings that I played back in the day. A couple of months later, new D4 season opens so you jump to that, and so on.ĭiablo 2, Diablo 3, Diablo Immortal, and Diablo 4 will be all different styles of Diablo games, and will attract their core audiences regardless of what is going on within the other franchise titles. Updating seasonal ladders makes sense, they want you on their servers, maybe you get bored for awhile of D4…psst, new D2R season starting up, c’mon and play, etc. Once they have the groundwork laid, where there really isn’t much Quality of Life to add, skills have had their major and minor balance passes, endgame gets updated with a new boss or two, they have run out of the runewords and cube recipes they wanted to add, and whatever legacy bugs are left that they wish to fix are done, then the game will primarily focus on bug fixes and a seasonal theme for ladder. As I stated, I believe that the bulk of the updates will come with the first few seasons.
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