Diablo 4 Will Receive New Story Content Every 3 Months

[John Elden Ring]

Diablo IV is set to receive "meaty" quarterly updates every three months: updates that will introduce new storylines, according to Game Informer.

In Game Informer's latest cover story, Diablo IV associate game director Joe Piepiora said that while he hesitates to use the word "expansion," the game's post-launch quarterly updates will consist of additional story content that will be tied into the new mechanics and features of each update. Updates will additionally be accompanied by a new seasonal battle pass, which will come in both free and premium forms. Blizzard has previously confirmed that the game's first season will not go live with Diablo IV and will come sometime later.

Blizzard recently offered more information on what exactly Diablo IV's endgame will look like in the form of a developer video. Nightmare dungeons, alongside areas out in the open world called Helltides, will make up the bulk of the endgame experience. Nightmare dungeons serve as harder, remixed versions of the more than 100 dungeons present in Diablo IV at launch, with various affixes further spicing up the replayability of each dungeon.

In the cover story, Blizzard revealed two additional affixes players will have to overcome when conquering Diablo IV's endgame Nightmare dungeons. One such affix will see an invincible pillar of lightning constantly chase players throughout the dungeon, while another will add a shade that follows players and, if touched, will obscure their vision and summon additional enemies.

Blizzard also shared a few new details about Helltides with Game Informer, clarifying that multiple areas in the world can be affected by Helltides at once and persist for a limited time. Deadlier enemies will spawn within a Helltide's borders, including remixed versions of various bosses from throughout the game.

 

[Sircaw]

The game is going to evolve into something really special over time.

A few years down the line, once we have some character expansion packs and a proper Dlc content patch, Probably Diablo, Baal, Mepy etc will need to join the game as Lilith seems to be the main protagonist of this particular Start.

Ladder resets, runewords, set items, jewels, more world bosses, special events, UBers, dclones, there is so much that this game can add,

I will say, i do worry about the phrase meaty updates, hope they have will be focusing on quality and not on quantity, the last diablo2 patch was rushed out and caused a lot of bugs with its updates.

 

[VillaiN]

Played some of beta. From what i saw it looks like live service game, ala destiny. I got kicked out due some server error. This just confirms it.

 

[ghostz]

Beta was great. Can’t wait for June.

 

[Sircaw]

Played some of beta. From what i saw it looks like live service game, ala destiny. I got kicked out due some server error. This just confirms it.

Played a lot of it over the two beta weekends, 4 characters to level 25, it's not perfect but the foundation blocks for it are very solid.

Its going to be a massive hit.

 

[peter42O]

So barring any delays, September will probably be the first story content update.

 

[Remember_Spinal]

not going to lie, stuff like that actually makes me not want to buy it lol

I know the big thing about diablo is end game and new content but I got other games to play this year. Baldurs gate 3, FFXVI, spider-man 2, maybe starfield, etc.

Its why I don’t play FFXIV

 

[Sircaw]

So barring any delays, September will probably be the first story content update.

It all depends on when they start the ladder
They will want server stability and probably alot of patch fixes just like they did with d2R,the ladder did not take place for many months after the original release

 

[Gediminas]

Day 1 for sure, hundreds of hours incoming.
I hope, all those story contents will be on normal mode too, not just seasons.

 

[peter42O]

It all depends on when they start the ladder
They will want server stability and probably alot of patch fixes just like they did with d2R,the ladder did not take place for many months after the original release

Okay. Gotcha. So it could be 6 months after launch but once they start the first story content, it's then every three months right?

 

[Sircaw]

Okay. Gotcha. So it could be 6 months after launch but once they start the first story content, it's then every three months right?

yep something like that, i would hope they would set a ladder date within three months of launch but d2 had a lot of problems

D2 launch was 13 August 2021 and the first ladder started the next year on 28th of April,

I don't think it will be as long as that but as you can see it was alot of time.