Deimunized imunes!

[Kevin]

Don't forget that without Hellfire or some other tricks (like starting a multiplayer game on a higher difficulty and then without restarting the app playing single or playing a multi char solo), single player D1 was only one difficulty though in multi you could play in 3 different difficulties. If you want apples to apples that is about as close as you can get I think. D1 cut out 2/3 rds of the game from single player players.

I really don't think Blizzard ever really intended Hell to be playable in single player. At the release of the game Hell was intended to be party only or single player suicide. They failed at that, but that has always been a stated goal from Blizzard. So, if they finally reach that goal, you aren't losing anything that you were intended to have.

Sure making Hell not really single player viable cuts out an audience, but D2 was designed as a multiplayer game (even single player uses a client and a server) and single player was an after thought, an add on, I don't think Blizzard really cares that much about that audience. I have no problem with Blizzard "screwing over" single player chars in Hell. Of course from history and my current experience, a really good player can still do Hell 1 so it isn't an issue anyway.