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So, guess what? Diablo 2, that legendary game we all know and love, just hit the quarter-century mark on June 8, 2025. Yup, 25 years. Insane, right? To mark the occasion, the official Diablo account on X (or whatever we’re calling social media these days) dropped a mysterious little nugget.
“If you think you’ve seen and done it all, just wait for the chaos we’ve yet to unleash.” What does that even mean? Folks are buzzing, imagining all sorts of things. New runewords, maybe a fresh hero, or entirely new recipes for the Horadric cube? Who knows? My brain’s a circus just thinking about it. Another 25 years of Diablo 2 love letters would be amazing, right?
Anyway — wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, so we figured out what the big hype was about, and it’s kinda… unexpected. LOL.
Diablo 2: Resurrected is launching in China. Yep, that’s it. Okay, it’s a thing. At ChinaJoy 2025 expo (which, honestly, sounds like a cool event), Blizzard teamed up with NetEase—those are big names in the gaming world, if you’re into that stuff. They did this whole reveal for the Chinese version. Johanna Faries, Blizzard’s head honcho, even bragged about it on LinkedIn. Diablo 4 is joining the party soon too!
You might be scratching your head and wondering why China had to wait so long. Get this: China’s got these gnarly censorship rules, especially with stuff like blood and gore—like, come on, that’s half of Diablo’s charm, right? Plus, you gotta have a local publisher to make it happen, so enter NetEase.
So, this new version? Not the one we’ve been playing since 2021. Not at all. Multiplayer’s gonna be separate too, not like we’re gonna see a flood of players from China mixing with the rest of us. Sorry if you were dreaming about that.
Oh, and it seems they’ve changed a bunch of things to fit the local vibe. I hear they love pay-to-win things there, so we got these tiered packages. The cheapest one, for 168 Yuan (around 23 bucks, if you’re counting), lets you level up faster and score some magic finds for a month. The pricier packs just add more bling.
The ultimate edition? It’s 458 Yuan (like $63), and it includes a new set called “Glory of the Warlord.” Pretty flashy, I guess. Comes with a Meditation aura and better stats. But having played Diablo 2 for ages, the whole pay-to-win thing doesn’t impress me much. You can gather most of this stuff pretty quickly in normal gameplay.
Oh, and there’s this juicy bit about stash tabs. Apparently, preorder folks get extra free ones. Not fair, right? Couldn’t Blizzard share the love with all of us?
So, what’s this mean for us outside China? To be honest, nothing much changes. But knowing someone’s still poking around Diablo 2 is good, even if Blizzard still seems a bit tone-deaf. I mean, they could let us mod the multiplayer, just saying. I even wrote something about this before — felt like the game was being ghosted.
A teaser promised chaos, and, yeah, maybe this isn’t it. But I’m crossing fingers that it signals more exciting stuff in the pipeline for everyone across the globe. I’ve got zero evidence, but hey, I like to dream big!
