This is post is not about whether I despise leeches or not. It's about the fact that Blizzard is trying to move back to the old D2C gaming climate, the climate that was part of what most D2 veterans remember as the golden age. When I talk about gaming climate I'm talking about the climate that the average Battle.net player is in, meaning public games, often playing with strangers. This is where I have always been and always have belonged, even if I do despise what it has become in v1.09 and so sincerely hope that it will be turned inside-out when v1.10 is released. I want to feel that there are other people playing with me, that I am a part of, and very much integrated into the world that is D2 Bnet Closed. So suggestions about playing on my own in passworded games are lost on me, it's simply not the way I want to play the game.
Most changes in v1.10 were made with the intent of changing the gaming climate, to bring back that air of necessity, risk and danger, and the fierce competition that was present in D2C, that you had to struggle, not only with the game, but with those you compete with, if you wanted to succeed. The only way that last part is ever going to come back, which I know many more than myself are hoping for, is if the party system is changed, preferably back to how it was pre-LoD.
Most changes in v1.10 were made with the intent of changing the gaming climate, to bring back that air of necessity, risk and danger, and the fierce competition that was present in D2C, that you had to struggle, not only with the game, but with those you compete with, if you wanted to succeed. The only way that last part is ever going to come back, which I know many more than myself are hoping for, is if the party system is changed, preferably back to how it was pre-LoD.
In my mind, my dreams are real. No one's concerned about the way I feel.