There was money involved in the DotA scene, and it used the Warcraft engine and even a bit of D2 intellectual property (Buriza Do Kyanon, for example.)Hell, you even had a pretty well loved Diablo 1 module for NeverWinter Nights, and I don't think it ever got pulled (and you could tip the mod creator iirc)I do think a mod for a game is wholly different than reverse engineering things, datamining others, and basically using a pirated version of a game to make moneyHell, we can donate to streamers. That's basically the same.

One of the things I find continuously fascinating about fandom is how far particular fans will go for the things they love.

This is an example.

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I like to think I’m willing to do more than most, but the idea of sitting down with StarCraft 2 and painstakingly recreating Diablo 2using its game editor is well outside my wheelhouse. Not so for egod123, who is actively engaged in exactly that labor, creating a mod called The Curse of Tristram. He’s been at it since 2014. Four years. He’s spent four years working to create a StarCraft 2 mod that will allow you to play Diablo 2 inside the newer engine.

I’m going to be up front — I really don’t see the need for this. If you want an updated Diablo game, we have one of those. But I get that some players just love Diablo 2 and hopefully this will allow them to go back and play it in a graphically updated way if that’s what they want. The fact that it’ll basically be a mod for StarCraft 2 (which is now free to play, and which itself often faces unkind comparisons to its predecessor in much the way that Diablo 3 does with Diablo 2) lends a bit of a twist to the whole proceeding for me. But he’s also working on entirely new game modes for the classic action RPG, which as a reminder for us all came out in 2000. Egod123’s version will add something called world events that sound a little like the Adventure Mode from Diablo 3 to me, but which might be something else entirely.

Easy68k tasks. OK, so maybe you're not playing these games for the story, but it sure added to the atmosphere to try to piece together what was going on through cryptic compter terminal messages, etc.Agreed 100%.

The Curse of Tristram: Destruction’s End, a mod that takes the main campaign of Diablo II and recreates it using the StarCraft II engine, has been four. Again, this was a Diablo setting, Tristram, the village that opens all three games. V 1.0 is out now and playable for those who want to hop in, details of where to download it can be found here.

Just the sheer amount of dedication is something worth seeing — there’s a video up announcing the PTR for the mod which shows some of the gameplay — and I have to admit it manages to look faithful to the original while also boasting StarCraft 2’s impressive graphics. I guess if Blizzard’s not going to do something like this (and considering we saw a remaster of StarCraft recently, I wouldn’t put it past them) then it was inevitable someone else would.

You can try The Curse of Tristram right now by firing up StarCraft 2 and venturing into the Arcade. The Curse of Tristram is currently in testing, but it’s worth checking out even in this not-quite-finished state.