shame that the diablo franchise itself is not improving with the piss poor announcement at blizzcon 2018 with diablo immortal, GJ blizzard announce a mobile only game at a conventio nwhere 99% of people there are PC gamers, ofc its obviously the suits at activision who wanted blizzard to make some mobile garbage, first it was HOTS packs then hearthstone, then lootboxes in overwatch, then silver coins in destiny and cod points in BO4 ofc this is mobile game so its definatly gonna be pay to win so expect to see 10000 diablo soul stones for £90 so you can buy legendary gear or transmog and weapons and exp boosts and other shite

When Diablo 1 first came out it looked beautiful after playing the standard pixelated games like Doom among others. I managed to get to level 9 and had to give up at the time in frustration. Then Diablo 2 came out and I can't remember how many times I have played it through but have to say it is one of the most satisfying games of its kind that has ever been made. The only thing I never cared for was the fact that my cd drive/burner ran all the time when playing because of DRM. I probably burned up a couple drives playing Diablo 2 over time. It's been at least 15 years since I have played D2 and I always have an itch for it.

When I saw Diablo 1 come on sale my first reaction was to buy it if only to encourage Blizzard to consider to release more games DRM free through GOG. Reading the news threads I see that a large number of people share this hope and want to see Diablo 2 included DRM free on GOG and judging from the customer base that GOG has it would be a wise decision for Blizzard. I know I won't be making a Blizzard account to buy a game there, but they have it sold if its on GOG.

I installed D1 and started to play and uhg... What a dog. It hasn't aged well at all and doesn't even come close to the quality that Diablo 2 provided. Diablo 1 was a starting place but only for the moment. Yes it has its place in history and can be considered a good old game but there are plenty of Diablo clones that have been made that are much better than D1 from the Divinity series to Torchlight that would be more worthy of the time invested if fun is a consideration. Diablo 1 became very tedious by the third level and I saw why I had drifted away from it on my first play years ago.

In a perfect world Blizzard would have released Diablo 2 on GOG with Diablo 1 as a free addition like Bethesda did with the Elder Scrolls franchise offered with Doom, Morrowind and Oblivion. Let's hope the incredible response from GOG customers will encourage Blizzard to include Diablo 2 among other games they are keeping exclusive available for the GOG library.

Yeah, I'd forgotten a lot about this game. The design of the sorceror certainly makes it hard out of the gate, but it's an interesting challenge. Using every spare gold towards buying spell books off Adria when she has them, and started a new game twice to farm the lower levels.

Whether or not that's how it's meant to be played. ;)

Yeah, this game taught me the basics of any magic based character in any RPG: you start off weak, very weak, you´re the biggest bully-sponge, until a certain level, when card will turn and then you hit like 50 characters at once with 1 spell :D

And it's free :)

I wonder how long it will take to see the next Blizzard games here. I imagine that GOG wants to continue selling Diablo as a TOP game for a while before releasing Warcraft and Warcraft 2.

Diablo sales seemed to slow down, so probably they could bring it here next week/next month.

In an I ironic twist, the Sorceress in Diablo 2 was HANDS DOWN the easiest play through I ever had.

Diablo is now the 121st bestselling game of all time on GOG!

https://www.gog.com/games?sort=bestselling&page=3

Sales of Diablo may have slowed down somewhat from the peaks of when it first released, but it still is consistently topping the daily bestselling list, even with a number of games on sale and new releases out there. The operative words in your sentence are "seemed to". Keep in mind as it continues to climb up the all time bestselling list, each game it passes now has sold an insane amount and the gulf between each entry as far as copies sold may be vast. So when it leap frogs only one or two games at a time on the list instead of the fifteen or more it was doing before, that doesn't necessarily mean sales have significantly slowed. Diablo: "Stay awhile and listen... to the ka-ching of money flowing in."

I gave diablo 2 LoD a second chance and installed it fully added new patch copied LoD music to the install folder and it works without cd now.
Haven't played it much before, now i will try to see if this game is good, like i've beaten diablo 1 long time ago and liked it.
Also it's crazy how many cd changing you have to do until the game is installed.

So i have the game and i tried connecting through Battle.net but it just patches, claims to restart but never patches anything. i reopen the game and its the same process over and over? is anyone actually connected to the battle.net servers in which one can host a game???

been playing D2 non stop all day

Is it the retail version or from Blizzard site? I still got the CDs (3 sets in fact, 1 with play disc broken, 1 too scratched up to install the music file and last is still good..I think).

And did yoou have to install patch from battle.net?

I'm thinking of installing it again, so long as I can play it w/o having the CD in the drive.

As long as you have your serial key intact, you can download and run the game's client (or clients if you also have the expansion) from the link below. It should download the installer's files. Run the installer and it should ask for a username and a serial key. Once you input them and the game is installed, you can then run it without the need to touch your CDs ever again.

Link: https://us.battle.net/account/download/