Quote Originally Posted by Realm25 View Post
you're about 8 years late, and the online community is dying, and nothing like it used to be. Having said that, it's still a huge game that'll take many hours of your time. It's fun.
The online community is literally dead. The only possible method of enjoying the game with others is to join a forum and meet people and play with them that way. Diabloii.net is a good place to begin.

Once you install a mod, join their respective forum and meet with people this way. To be perfectly honest, I've found more enjoyment from the mods than the Vanilla Diablo itself.

If you do otherwise, you run the terrible risk of being placed under any range of immature crap.

And the bots. I think the majority of players are simply bots now.