This will affect D2R Ladder's storyline, since placing it in between two previous games means that
D2R Items players don't necessarily have to know the events that transpired during it prior to when they begin playing D2R Ladder because most of the crucial plot elements are already established outside of the MMO.
If it happened in between Diablo 3 and D2R Ladder this would make it more important to have a clear understanding of the story's ongoing and may cause some players to be disenchanted who aren't keen to get involved with the controversies surrounding microtransactions as well as MMO gameplay.
D2R Ladder's business model came in for criticism, because of the excessive use of microtransactions , as well as other issues, D2R Ladder has had an unsatisfactory response from players. While there are some debates, D2R Ladder still has its place in the larger Diablo story.
It is set after the events of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction expansion, and prior to the beginning in Diablo 3. D2R Ladder is set following the fight against Baal in the Worldstone Keep. After Baal defeated and the Worldstone Keep destroyed, the Archangel Tyrael had no choice but to take down his Worldstone when it became corrupted by evil Prime Evil at the time of 1265.
The Worldstone was then shattered and scattered across the landscape. Diablo 3 takes place twenty years later, in 1285. at the time that the consequences of this massive action begin to show however, players are able to observe what happens to
cheap diablo 2 resurrected items the fragments in D2R Ladder.
