Many of you are wondering what's up with the patch and the ladder reset. While I've sprinkled some information around, it's about time it was all mashed up in one easy-to-read location.
The Story - Once upon a time our internal legacy development teams wanted to put some much needed love into Diablo II. Diablo II doesn't have tournaments with millions of dollars swirling about them, so it generally took a back seat to the patch development time of our other legacy titles. But one day the planets aligned, and it was finally time to give the old girl a new coat of paint and break a bottle of champagne over her bow with the release of a patch. This went well. Meetings were held, the community was involved and polled, and an extremely long list of ideas and changes was created. That list was then cut down to changes felt to be either necessary changes, or easily implemented to ensure development time was efficient. This also went well.
Not long after, the alarm bells sounded. The patch was progressing quickly, and the release was potentially imminent. Early on it was decided, and somewhat of a no-brainer, that a ladder reset with coincide with the patch release. With the patch progressing well, a potential release of two weeks was estimated, and as always this is the exact amount of forewarning given to players and the community before a ladder reset. An announcement was made quickly and immediately to ensure a full two week notice was given. There are many reasons for this standard two-week notice, not the least of which is that most players don't understand the meaning of ladder and non-ladder, and how a reset affects their characters. Following any reset our support departments are flooded with issues related to the change of their characters, so we attempt to inform beforehand and avoid any unnecessary confusion.
This was all well and good, the community was excited, and the developers were having fun and enjoying being able to work on Diablo II again. Then, as it tends to do, reality struck. (http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=16888549346&sid=3000 Work had to be swiftly and immediately realigned and has and continues to be focused on addressing issues for a different title to resolve a very serious issue.
The Now - The Warcraft III patch is now on the Public Test Realm (PTR) and testing is progressing. Once that patch is released work can shift back to Diablo II and the 1.13 patch, and we'll be working to getting that patch up on its own PTR as soon as possible. This could be a matter of weeks. Once it's up and in a testing state for all of you, it's then going to be a matter of ensuring the features are good and it's a solid patch. The more people we have testing the patch and providing valid feedback, the better the patch will be, and hopefully the quicker it will be released. So that's my challenge to you. You've been waiting a long time, you want an awesome patch, you want a reset. To get all that, we need good solid testing and feedback, reproduction steps for bugs, detailed descriptions of issues or errors, etc. So once this goes live on the PTR, I expect some crazed-youruinedtheeconomy-testing.
마지막 문단만 보면 되겠네요. 워크래프트 III 패치를 PTR에서 테스트 중이고 테스트 마친 후 릴리스할 것이며 이 이후에나 Diablo II 1.13 패치에 대한 실제 작업을 진행할 것 예정이라고 합니다. 워크래프트 III와 마찬가지로 후에 PTR에 올려서 테스트할 것이라고 하고요. 이 테스트는 몇 주간(과연...--;;) 진행될 것이고 좋은 결과를 위해서는 게이머들의 적극적인 테스트 참여와 피드백이 중요하다...정도입니다.
역시나 조금 길게 봐야 할 것 같습니다. ^^;;
딱 이 문장만 보면 되겠네요...
워3 테스트하고 패치풀고나서 디아2 패치를 최대한 빨리... 몇주쯤 걸릴꺼다 ......(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )
몇주라.......
블리자드가 이때까지 해왔던 관행에다가 스타2 발매로 인한 지연 등으로 본다면
제 생각엔 최소한 3달에서 4~5달은 걸리겠네요. 연말에나 래더통합 되겠군요 --;;
통합되면 래더전용 룬워드는 가격 참 볼만하겠군요..........
지금도 스탠분들 래더로 넘어가서 래더룬워드 작업 엄청나게 하고 있는데
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