Blizzard decided to hold off the game to address it
The release schedule will be in place for D2R Items: Resurrected's upcoming content will begin on April 14th for patch 2.4 after which comes the Ladder's launch is two weeks after that the 28th of April. The delayed Ladder release should provide additional time to ensure the game's game state is set to compete in an environment.To be precise, Diablo 2: Resurrected's Ladder and patch 2.4 never had an official date for release.
A PTR update with all the new content was released on March 1, with many players believing a full release was coming in a matter of weeks. The release date for Diablo 2: Resurrected's upcoming content is set for April 14 to patch 2.4 Then, the Ladder's launch is two weeks after that the 28th of April. The delayed Ladder launch should allow time to ensure the game's environment is prepared to compete in a game.
The third show-stopper, and an issue that was deemed to be unacceptable, was that stashes could not effectively convert to the current Version of Diablo 2: Resurrected. Obviously, that kind of problem can't be fixed. Blizzard decided to hold off the game to address it, in addition to the database problems and not risk further buy D2R Ladder Items: Resurrected fiasco to launch the update and it's likely to be pulled anyway.
