Diablo IV Delayed Until 2023

Blizzard wrote:

“While we are still planning to deliver a substantial amount of content from Blizzard next year, we are now planning for a later launch for Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV than originally envisaged,” the company said. The delays were blamed on changes in leadership both at Blizzard and on the game development teams. Diablo 4 lost its director and lead designer over the summer, while Overwatch 2 lost its executive producer in September.

“It has become apparent that some of the the Blizzard content planned for next year will benefit from more development time to reach its full potential.”

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Very good news in my opinion. D2R is making D4 look not so impressive right now, lol. Definitely needs a lot more development time.

Yeah, go spend your money on another blizz product, but don't complain when the servers have fun.

Blizzard wrote:

The delays were blamed on changes in leadership both at Blizzard and on the game development teams. Diablo 4 lost its director and lead designer over the summer, while Overwatch 2 lost its executive producer in September.

This … does put a smile on my face.

Trang Oul wrote: 3 years ago

This … does put a smile on my face.

The chopping block got nice and dirty at blizzard. They are still being sued in CA and are def going to settle for a nice 8-9 figures.

this is what you get...
when you mess with
..us

or ass.

rikus wrote: 3 years ago

this is what you get...
when you mess with
..us

or ass.

Yes everybody loses when management lets their business be run by a bunch of douche bags who don't care about the player nor their employees.

Hopefully the shit-show that is the D2R servers is also giving them pause to not let D4 launch go like this. (although this is blizzard so i wouldn't hold my breath)

This is probably for the best, really hope Immortal turns out half decent...

There may be hope that we are finally coming out of the blizzard dark age (that started ever since the merger with activision I'd wager)
Hopefully the "it will be out when it's done" policy that got us amazingly polished games like Warcraft 3 will finally return. It was clear over the past years that the pressure from executives and stakeholders to release games as fast as possible, create as much hype through marketing, etc. was becoming a detriment to the quality of their games and the happiness of the fanbase.

Very happy to hear that it's delayed too, hopefully they take as much time as they need and give us a worthy entry to the Diablo franchise.

I don't know about Immortal though, it seems like they took the time they needed to polish it, but it still remains a mobile game made with the intention to be profitable through micro transactions and pay-to-win mechanics. Personally not the type of game I'm looking for, being a PC/console gamer mainly.