Blizzard are well-known for their level of support for their games, and how much they listen to their fans, but it seems they're taking this to new heights, with a recent announcement on their forums.

Apparently, the developers are hard at work on a new content patch for Diablo II - and they want to know what you want it to include. While they can't promise to implement everybody's personal preference, they are asking for your input into the patch, to try and get an overall sense of what the community wants.


Blizzard poster Bashiok explained on the forums:

We’re in the process of working on Diablo II content patch 1.13, and we want to try to include the Diablo community’s most important changes in our production schedule. To achieve this we’re asking for your input on what you’d like to see in this patch. However, we’re making it a bit stricter than a full-blown wish list.

If you were to get an advance look at the patch notes for Diablo II 1.13, what is the one patch note you would want to see?
Our goal is to get an overall sense of the single most important request from every member of the community. We want as many posts as we can get for the largest cross section, so if you have friends who used to play Diablo II or just don’t frequent the forums as much as you do, let them know this is here so we can get their “#1 patch note” too.

Please be mindful that we’re not going to be able to make every change mentioned, but hopefully with your feedback we can prioritize and do our best to cover as much as possible.

If you're a Diablo II fan headed over to the mammoth thread (63 pages at time of writing), consider letting us know what you're thinking too - it'll be interesting to see if the Games On Net audience has similar opinions on things, or if we all want something different!


While it's really nice to see a developer reaching out to the community like this, it's worth keeping in mind that there is a certain sequel looming on the horizon - could this be Blizzard making an attempt to put their old title to sleep quietly?