Lord of Destruction is perhaps one of the best expansions any game has ever seen. It added two new classes to Diablo 2--the Druid and the Assassin--along with a whole new act and an exciting conclusion to Diablo sag🅠a (at least, until Diablo 3 came along). And it certainly performed well enough to warrant a second Diablo 2 expansion, but then things sort of fell apart at Blizzard North.
That's according to David Brꦆevik, co-founder of the now-dissolved studio. Brevik took to Twitter last weekend to answer questions from Diablo fans, with one asking if there was ever thought for a second Diablo 2 expansion.
"Yes, sort of," Brevik . "It was only designed, never produced. I had a multi-page design doc going over new classes, newﷺ areas, new mechanics, an💜d story concepts. That’s as far as it got."
Why didn't it get any further? In 2003, Blizzard North saw a series of high-profile departures that included Brevik himself. This was due to a number of issues, including disagreements wit𝕴h Vivend💖i, the company that owned Blizzard at the time. Brevik and several other former Blizzard North devs went to form Flagship Studios, which eventually dissolved to form Runic Games of Torchlight fame in 2008.
Another reason for everyone’s departure might have had to do with the tܫerrible working conditions they were under dur൩ing Diablo 2’s development. Crunch, as Brevik recalled last year, was expected and by all accounts was exceptional✤ly brutal.
"I think it was really interesting,” Brevik . “We used a lot of the game-structure concepts for Marvel Heroes. It was an APRG+MMO. MMO in terms of many people playing at once, not like WoW. I🦩t was scrapped because most of Blizzard North left." It would have also .
Some of those MMO features wou▨ld have included guildhalls for clans to assemble and go on quests, according to . But with Blizzard North gone, there was no way to make an expansion timely for Diablo 2, so Blizzard decided to focus on making Diablo 3.
And now we've got 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Diablo 2 being remade and a Diablo 4 on the way. Stay tuned to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:BlizzConline this weekend for more Diablo news.
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