Players Want Changes in Diablo 2: Resurrected

Diablo 2: Resurrected will debut this year, and as we learned during the announcement, the remaster will not implement too many changes to the game's mechanics, which met with a positive response from the community. But do gamers actually want the remastered version of the game to be identical to the original?

Two weeks ago, a survey appeared on Reddit, in which Diablo fans could answer several questions. User Chrompower wanted to find out if the community waiting for Diablo 2: Resurrected wants changes in game mechanics. And if so, then what changes would that be. Several hours ago the results of the survey were published, featuring answers of 4352 people, 99% of which had experience with Diablo 2 before . So we can treat the conclusions of the survey as a vote of the most devoted group of fans.

The results will be surprising for many. Over the years, the most hardcore group of gamers has always been reluctant to make any changes when refreshing games. In the case of Diablo 2: Resurrected, out of 23 questions asked, as many as 20 responses indicate the desire for changes. If you want to know the exact distribution of votes in each of the questions, we invite you to read the PDF with the results. Below we present a digest.

Changes to the inventory

1. The majority (53%) is for an increased stash space to multiple 10 x 10 stash tabs, 28% of the people are for an unlimited stash size, 10% for a single 10 x 10 stash, only 6% are against an increased stash size;
2. The majority (58%) is for a seperate charm inventory, but charms should only work in that charm inventory, about one third (30%) is against a charm inventory;
3. The biggest part (44%) is for an increased inventory space, but only in combination with a separate charm inventory where charms only work in that charm inventory, about one third (32%) is against an increased inventory space, 20% are for a bigger inventory size (no matter if they add a charm inventory or not);

Item changes

• The vast majority (78%) is for stackable runes and gems, 16% are against;
• Half of the people (50%) are for unlimited ammo quivers;

Game balance

1. The vast majority (70%) is for minor spell balancing, mainly in improving the strength of useless ones;
2. The vast majority (72%) is for minor mercenary balancing;
3. The majority (64%) is for minor item and runeword balancing;

Battlenet changes

• The opinions are very divided: About one third (34%) is for shorter ladder seasons, whilealmost the same amount of people (31%) want to keep the 6-month ladder season cycle;
• More than half of the people (54%) want the Non-Ladder restrictions to be removed;
• The biggest part (44%) is for enabling the /players X command on Battlenet;

Interface and tooltip changes

1. The majority (62%) is for an optional, modernized spell hotkey system;
2. The vast majority (71%) is for an ingame runeword / horadric cube encyclopedia;
3. The vast majority (70%) is for an optional loot filter;
4. About half of the people (52%) are for a Kill-Tracker;
5. The vast majority (76%) is for an option to toggle showing ground loott;
6. The vast majority (77%) is for optional additional item tooltips;

New content

• The majority (69%) is for adding more endgame content at some point;
• The majority (58%) is for adding new items, runewords or cube recipes at some point;

Other changes

1. 39% of the people are against optional personal loot, 36% are for optional personal loot;
2. 44% of the people are against an additional / easier way to respec, 43% support the idea;
3. The vast majority (82%) wants to be able to still open the cow level after killing the king;
4. The majority (65%) is for keeping the Nihlathak portal open.

The survey thus shows that the most conservative approach appear when it comes to possible changes to online seasons, which should not be surprising when there is a competitive element involved. A more liberal approach comes out when people will enjoy Diablo 2: Resurrected by playing solo, just for fun.

I can't deny that I would welcome some of the changes that appeared in the survey, and I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that after the release the developers will consider continuing to support the game as requested by the community. And what do you think about the results of this survey?

1. Diablo 2 - official website