Conquest wrote:The reason is quite simple and it's not even that dependent on mod authors.
It's the market saturation.
Median XL came out in late 2008, which was a completely different time when it comes to action RPG's. You had Diablo 2, its other mods and maybe Dungeon Siege 2? Not much. Also the concept of endgame was pretty new, Median mod is the first popular mod that doubled down on this concept.
Today you have so many good ARPG's with endgame that Median just feels outdated.
2.0 made it a trainwreck of a mod for me. It's not playable, I'm sorry, I can't make it past normal. Not due to difficulty but due to how crap it plays.
Well.. Brother Laz is making a brand new mod for D2 Resurrected which is kinda like Median but not quite.
Yep that's a lot of the reason, although I'm not sure that there are many "good" ARPGs, but there are certainly lots of them and most people who never played d2 can't tell a good one from the other kind. There's also a type of person who must have the newest thing, even if it's worse than the what it replaces.
Btw I searched for Bro Laz's d2r mod and there are a couple of references to it and even a site for the code but they mostly give a 404 page not found error and there's nothing in the code site. Looks like he abandoned it?
