I do still have a disc copy I could try to swap out the bnet components on and see if the server works properly, it's not really a registry thing it's more of a dll thing to swap gateways. Did that a few times to play on private servers for D2 back when botting was so bad on bnet you couldn't even log on without getting spammed. I have a weird feeling that I won't be allowed to connect but it's worth a shot I suppose.

EDIT: Okay so good news and bad news, good news is the original game can see the new bnet gateway. Bad news is they modified the battle(dot)snp file from the original game soooo I have to reinstall the gog version, copy that over and try to connect again since the server will not allow me to download the "update" and patch it. I'll post another update here on how it went after this is done downloading.


EDIT 2: Okay so after fiddling around with gateways and updating to 1.09 from the update on blizzards website it's still asking me to update the game so, I copied over the battle(dot)snp and the cache file to wind up with the game crashing as soon as bnet tries to load meaning they altered some of the underlying code for the game already which would make sense with the whole bug fixes they supposedly did. What I don't get is why they didn't change the version number if the changes are that vast so unfortunately I cannot test this with an old disc copy of the game. Either we wait for a fix or play over hamachi at this point which really sucks because I don't really want to rely on a third party service to play this game online when they went through the trouble of updating the bnet server. Granted yes, the server doesn't exactly work like it should but they are well aware of the issue now at least. Now to play the waiting game? At least I have Belzebub/Tchernobog to hold me over for now :\

In the registry, the GOG version uses the label "1.09b v2".

Just posted on BNET forums to help out, it seems that bnet is not reading the multi_0.sv files and its causing an issue. They just released a patch today which is 1.09b v3 still no change to the bnet thing.

If they tested this before releasing it like at all they would have realised this.

Maybe i am in the 'small' minority and maybe not :D i never just go blindly with the flow . or follow the herd/crowd or whatever they call it in English, i always try to solve my problems myself, googling and looking for a possible solution in many forums, if all fails then i start asking here , and only in some cases contact support.

Yep. I am lvl 23 in game but my chatroom/profile displays me as lvl 1 still. I can host a Nightmare game but my lvl 23 friend cannot join mine as it tells him he must be lvl 20+ to join a Nightmare game. The inverse is true as well; he can host a Nightmare game despite his profile showing him as lvl 1, but I, as a lvl 23, cannot join his Nightmare game. I am told I must be lvl 20+ to join Nightmares.

You can still play them solo on bnet or you can get hamachi and use the IPX Wrapper to play higher difficulties while we wait on a fix. Personally I've just been running NM solo, it's a bit rough but now that I have two sets of gear it's not as bad when I die, just mop up the enemies that killed me and grab my gear or kite them grab and run.

I bought the game with a product page that says battle.net support. Currently that is not true. I don't care about single player or private IPX games. I bought it for battle.net support. And i'll return the game if they do not deliver what they advertised.

And do you know if is possible to recover the money?

I think we have to calm down and wait for the fix. it was just released 4 days ago. If they see how many ppl bought it, they will make a hell of a fix I hope :P ... or a fix of the hell XD

Thank you for testing this. I suppose I should have expected that the "Global" server wouldn't recognize disc Diablo. Even so, that's very disappointing, because it means disc Diablo users and GOG Diablo users cannot use the same battle.net server, so they can't play together over the Internet. That's probably worth raising as a defect report with Blizzard, though I doubt they'll be willing to fix it.

I think they added anti-piracy measures to battlenet in order to rerelease the game because a lot of people had isos of this from what i've seen in the posts here, the game required no cd key so it was easy for people to pirate. I think that is partially why they didn't really maintain the server for a couple of years before the switch to new bnet.

Completely agree with this post. I will also be seeking a refund if this isn't fixed very soon. I purchased the game to play on b.net and it said it supported this.

To be fair, the game just launched like 5 or 6 days ago.

Activision Blizzard left this game to be forgotten for literally around two decades.

Honestly, I think we're lucky this version even exists on GoG. It's only GoG's staff working on it, and unlike other games, GoG's staff is probably getting literally 0 help with figuring out the code, so they literally have to figure out how to patch and fix bugs in a game they have no idea how it's built.

It's like upgrading a Car, when you have no idea what a car even is, let alone how it works. It's a very slow, painful process of trial and a stupid amount of error I bet.

I'd recommend just being patient. You can always play singleplayer. That works.

I hope all that you are saying is true, and they are at least working in fix those bug, I am for the moment enjoying playing Diablo HD Multiplayer (IPX).