It remains to be seen if Blizzard’s strange policies regarding mods will remain in place with Diablo 2: Ressurrected’s promised mod support, but it at least seems as though the publisher learned its lesson about tampering and/or burying its old games with the new one. Besides issues such as Blizzard claiming intellectual rights to any mods created for the game and early technical issues online and off, a big part of what drove Warcraft 3: Reforged to have one of the worst Metacritic user ratings ever recorded was that downloading it replaced the files of the original game.

This should come as welcome relief to anyone who remembers how Warcraft 3: Reforged launch. You can play 'em both at the same time if you want.” “This is a separate product, separate game. “Everything you have about currently will stay D2,” Gallerani expllined. When asked if Diablo 2: Resurrected would replace the original Diablo 2, D2R principal designer Rob Gallerani replied “no, absolutely not. This factoid was revealed in a Blizzard Q&A for Diablo 2: Resurrected during BlizzConline 2021, put up on the Diablo YouTube channel.

Ressurrected will not only feature mod support, but won’t replace the original Diablo 2 game on your system. When it comes to Diablo 2: Resurrected, it sounds like Blizzard and Vicarious Visions took the lessons learned from Reforged to heart. They were stuck with Warcraft 3 in its Reforged state and all the issues that came with it.

This forced players into a corner where they could not go back once they were in for the remastered real-time strategy relaunch. One of the most confounding and terrible decisions surrounding the abysmal launch of Warcraft 3: Reforged was that instead of featuring its own files for the game, it instead rewrote the original Warcraft 3.

Diablo 2 not remastered