Diablo 2: Resurrected director states that players must "do what they think is right" in deciding whether or D2R ladder items not to show support to the publisher Activision Blizzard by buying the remake when it goes on sale next week.

It's the first game it has launched since accusations of a "frat boy" work culture of Activision Blizzard were made by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing Although it's important to note that the main developer is Vicarious Visions, which has not been involved nor implicated in the lawsuit.

"It was definitely very troubling to hear these kinds of issues," design director Rob Gallerani revealed to Axios (thanks, VGC). "And we truly wanted to support our colleagues and the people we work with."

Gallerani said that the studio's management had requested feedback from employees on ways to help its staff better while stating that although it had "heard lots of truly positive comments" However, it was imperative that management "always have to be asking".

Interestingly, while the controversy has been able to make Blizzard search its games for inappropriate content like references to former employees that have been associated with the sexual harassment lawsuit, no issues of this nature were reportedly found during the development of Diablo 2: Resurrected, however, its Amazon warrior has been tweaked so that it look less sexualised.

"A many of those opinions weigh much on us" Gallerani stated. She changed the rules to ensure the characters portrayed looked like warriors buy d2r items, not people who had "rolled out of a nightclub".