Yes, it was expected, with so many changes conversion from older version was too difficult if not impossible and would lead to buggy characters and items.
fair enough to start over, but i cant even get the game to play now. D2multi.dll not able to load and error 126 as soon as i go forward from character screen... dafuq?
Caranthiz wrote:also no options in the launcher? where can i report bugs..? -.-
The settings button is in the right of the launcher window header; to the left of the minimize window button. But that doesn't include a report bug option.