Diablo II: Officially Golden
Blizzard Entertainment sent out an e-mail to Diablo II stress testers today verifying that Diablo II has gone gold and master CDs have been sent to manufactures. Here’s the e-mail from Blizzard:
Dear Battle.net Stress Testers,
We wanted to personally notify you that Diablo II has gone gold and the master CDs have been
released to manufacturing. We expect the game to begin shipping to stores worldwide as early as the
end of June.
Even though the game has gone gold, the stress test will continue throughout the next couple of
weeks. The optimization of servers is completely independent from the game going gold, so you will
continue to see network improvement up until launch. We also will be sending out access keys to
European and Asian gamers shortly, so we can fully test those local servers prior to the game
hitting stores as well.
We encourage you to continue playing over the next few weeks to help us test the servers as much as
possible before the game ships. We will email you prior to the stress test ending.
Thank you for the hours you have committed to playing Diablo II on Battle.net. We hope that you
will enjoy the game.
Blizzard Entertainment