There will be no support available for Diablo 2 Resurrected

Diablo 2 Resurrected was developed by China's NetEase games which has a long-standing partnership with Blizzard to release games like World of Warcraft and Overwatch in China. Blizzard recently announced that D2R Items would be ending its collaboration with NetEase in the coming year. This will lead to a range of Blizzard games being taken offline across the world. There will be no support available for Diablo 2 Resurrected in China, however, will remain, since this game will be covered by a an independent agreement.

Diablo 3 Season 28 Diablo 3 Season 28 is as certain as the Diablo 3's next resurrection. In the coming years, Season 27 will begin to come to an end, and Season 28 will begin to claw its way through The Burning Hells.

There's still a decent part of Season 27 to go until Season 28 begins to emerge, it pays to be ready for the next attack of Diablo. The following is all we know about when Season 27, which is the last season, will end and in the beginning of Season 28 - and what the next theme could be.

When Diablo 2 Resurrected was announced at BlizzCon 2018 in 2018, one member of the audience stood in front of the creators of the free-to-play mobile title to ask: "Is this an out-of-season April Fools' joke?" A general sense of vitriol and ridicule followed Diablo 2 Resurrected up until its recent launch. And these sentiments haven't diminished since. It's no longer a reflexive reaction to disappointments or the fact that the game is available to mobile users. This is the result of Diablo 2 Resurrected's microtransactions which, while predatory, weren't spun up out of thin air.

Diablo 2 Resurrected is doused in many in-game transactionsit's like a wall of sales with exaggerated percentages to convince players that the more they purchase you, the more money you save. This has been common practice in the mobile marketplace for years, no matter how different the style of presentation might have been. You see it with Genshin Impact's Genesis Crystal store, where purchasing large quantities of currency grants players a greater amount of exactly the same currency. The same thing happens in the case of Lapis -the currency paid that is used in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius -- which titillates players with "bonus" currency that can go into the thousands when purchasing packs of currency worth up to $100.

"A typical strategy for mobile games or other games that has microtransactions is to get rid of currencies," an anonymous employee in the mobile game industry has recently shared his thoughts with me. "Like when I pay $1, I'd get two currencies (gold and jewels for instance). This helps conceal the exact value of money spent as there's no one-to-1 conversion. Furthermore, we purposefully put worse deals [beside] other ones to make the D2R Ladder Items buy others appear more lucrative and let players feel that they're smarter when they save on their expenses and also getting the better deals."