07-27-2006, 08:24 AM
The way I remember it, Sierra was only authorized to produce a single player expansion for Diablo. If they bungled anything, it was not disabling the "multitest" easter egg on the release version of Hellfire. Which is probably why they did disable it in the patch (which obviously didn't stop people from hacking the multiplayer support right back in).
Honestly, if Hellfire had Blizzard's name on the box and b.net support, it wouldn't matter if it was the lamest expansion pack in the history of human kind... it still would have sold a ton more copies than it did as a single player add-on from Sierra. With online games, there is so much pressure to buy the expansions and stay compatible with your friends that it doesn't seem to really matter whether the expansions are worth the cost or not.
Honestly, if Hellfire had Blizzard's name on the box and b.net support, it wouldn't matter if it was the lamest expansion pack in the history of human kind... it still would have sold a ton more copies than it did as a single player add-on from Sierra. With online games, there is so much pressure to buy the expansions and stay compatible with your friends that it doesn't seem to really matter whether the expansions are worth the cost or not.