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Diablo II 1.10 Patch Finally Released

Posted by simoniker on from the hell-definitely-frosty-pist dept.

DudemanX writes "Blizzard have announced: 'Yes, you're reading correctly, the day has finally come for the Diablo II 1.10 patch! This patch is the largest to date in terms of game changes and offers many new things for Diablo II players, including seasonal ladder characters, more-challenging gameplay, enhanced skills, new items, new anti-cheat measures, a new game-world event, and much much more! Simply connect to Battle.net [while playing Diablo II] to download the patch.' The stand-alone patch is also now available on Blizzard's FTP site." This follows Blizzard's 1.10 Beta release all the way back in July.

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  1. Once again... by Romothecus · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    we find Slashdot doing Blizzard's advertising for them. There are thousands of better and newer games than Diablo II, yet one patch for this game makes it onto Slashdot.

    Editors, why are there always "stories" about the newest Blizzard games and why do they always read like press releases? Can we even get the pretense of journalistic integrity, please?

    1. Re:Once again... by brkello · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      And once again to you, moron, if you find things more worthy of being submitted, then why aren't you submitting them? I hope simoniker doesn't listen to people like you, because if he did this page would disappear. And I really enjoy it. But to make this on topic, Blizzard is one of the biggest names when it comes to making games. Hundreds of thousands of people have played Diablo 2 and I am sure at least tens of thousands of people are still playing it today. This is not a minor patch release, this is altering it in a significant way. For many people, this will make the game enjoyable to play through again at no added cost from their original purchase. This is news. If you have a problem with games.slashdot.org, don't come here. Obviously you aren't submitting anything so you are useless to this whole process.

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    2. Re:Once again... by Romothecus · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      Read my post, fuckhead. I am not asking why better things are not submitted. I do submit my own stories as well. What the hell do you know about what I submit? NOTHING. You're just some self-righteous jackass. I wasn't even talking about Diablo II not being news. I'm talking about the STYLE of the news stories relating to Diablo II. Not their existence. Get some fucking reading comprehension skills for Christ sake. For some reason the Slashdot editors pick story submissions about Blizzards THAT ARE BASICALLY ADVERTISEMENTS.

      I'm not just talking about this one post about a patch. I play Diablo II myself and I'm glad this patch is out and I understand how long it has been anticipated. But everytime Blizzard takes a piss it gets an incredible level of hype. I am not saying this is not news. I am saying there is such a thing as neutral reporting which is not being exercised here. In fact the author of the submission admits he was too lazy to bother.