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You are boycotting an open source project that reimplements a 19 year old game from scratch because you hate the current owner of the original game?

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it's not reimplementing it from scratch. it's developing a runtime engine that can read the original diablo 2 files. It says right in the README with big letters. You can't use this unless you have a legal copy of diablo2 and an expansion.

This thing is more like an emulator than a game.

If it gets big enough, people will make free asset packs to replace the official ones, much like there are for Doom

OpenRCT2 is pretty mature, but I doubt asset packs for that will be wholesale remade either.

Assets aren't like software in this regard.

OpenTTD went the same route, but has a free asset pack these days.

This is a game engine reimplementation, not an emulator.

You obviously don't know what an emulator is.

And OFC is reimplementing from scratch. Everything else is not code, but data. Get your facts right.

>You can't use this unless you have a legal copy of diablo2 and an expansion.

Or an iso acquired from a random torrent site. I've owned a few copies of D2 in my life and given blizzard years of my time, who knows where the booklets with the CD keys are. At least my copies of lod have it printed on the cover. I feel no qualms whatsoever about not giving blizzard more money for another 'legit' copy.

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