You'll have to go to GOG, not the Blizzard Launcher app, to purchase and download Diablo 1 (for $10, right here). What's more, Blizzard has handed the game's keys to a completely different storefront: GOG.com. This famously DRM-free marketplace is run by CD Projekt Group, the Polish company that also owns game developer CD Projekt Red ( The Witcher).
It's not a remaster, per se, but it does come with some quality-of-life updates and is Blizzard's first DRM-free game launch in years. Which brings us to today's seriously surprising news: Blizzard has just put Diablo 1 on sale digitally, a first for that 1996 game, with no prior announcement. Which is to say: the word "Diablo" is a touchy one as of late. These are the fans who, to some measure, let Blizzard have it after seeing the unveil of smartphone-only "freemium" game Diablo Immortal in place of any " Diablo IV" news at BlizzCon 2018. Side-note, in modern Windows (7 & up) your saved character files will be in \YourUserFolder\Saved Games\Diablo II\, which is kinda nice for management/backup/ mule-ing.Further Reading Amid layoffs, Blizzard won’t release a “major” new game in 2019That leaves one classic-minded Blizzard fanbase in the cold: the Diablo fans. The new installers will get you all the way up to the current patch level. It'll look something like this:Ĭopy that long alphanumeric code & paste it into the requisite box during installation. When you install the game from these clients, you will still need the "game key", which you can find in your account under "Account Settings", "Summary" - scroll down to the bottom under "Classic Games" and click on the game title. You then go to "Download Clients", "Classic Games", find Diablo 2 / LOD, and download the OS-appropriate client (Windows or Mac). Enter the code shown by the viewer for Diablo 2, then for LOD, and you will now have both games in your account.
You do this by logging in to, going to Account Settings, and clicking " Add a Game Key" (linked Q/A explains a bit more about why it works this way). ) If you patched to 1.13, use the Google and you should find something look for "Serby's" or "D2Utilities".īasically, most of them read the MPQ files from your game directory and show you the decrypted game-code (CD key), which you can then register with Blizzard/Bnet to download the new modern-OS-compatible game client. It only works with version 1.12 (or possibly older) but you did say " old gaming rig" so hopefully it was old enough that the game was fairly old too. The one I found that actually worked was linked from here. There are some nasty anchovies out there if you start looking for "key grabbers" or whatnot, so be careful. I was going to simply put this in the comments, but I felt it's enough information to warrant an answer.
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