It's legit several streamers, as well as others have received an email or more than one as part of a marketing questionnaire asking different questions one of them being how much they would pay for an expansion, several tiers, and storage space etc.

Also The Shop is giving away a free mount as part of the Holiday event so grab it. It's called the Penitent Dragoon.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/christmas-present-free-mount-in-the-store/144394

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

December 20 2023 19:12 GMT

#2407

Rod Ferguson interview via Electric Playground.

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United States41117 Posts

December 21 2023 19:42 GMT

#2408

Duriel uber drop rates doubled. Until January the 8th...

https://www.wowhead.com/diablo-4/news/diablo-4-patch-1-2-3-hotfix-5-duriel-uber-unique-drop-rates-doubled-336879

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

December 26 2023 00:36 GMT

#2409

Huh... Vessel of Hatred is expected to release in 2024... TIL. Possible big reveal in Summer of 2024.

https://www.wowhead.com/diablo-4/news/diablo-4-future-updates-calendar-whats-next-in-2024-336801

Social Features

Blizzard is aware that players want tools like a group finder to interact with each other
There is an entire part of the Diablo 4 team working on social features
The developers are working to get as many of these tools in place before the expansion releases in Late 2024

FaCE_1

Canada6184 Posts

December 28 2023 23:33 GMT

#2410

On December 26 2023 09:36 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Huh... Vessel of Hatred is expected to release in 2024... TIL. Possible big reveal in Summer of 2024.

https://www.wowhead.com/diablo-4/news/diablo-4-future-updates-calendar-whats-next-in-2024-336801

Show nested quote +

aka:
we rushed the release of the game and now we are working on obvious feature that any game of this gernder should have by default but we don't really care because you all buy our game anyway.

sertas

Sweden890 Posts

December 29 2023 21:41 GMT

#2411

Didn't blizz say they where going to have 4 seasons a year? Season 2 was august I think.

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

January 09 2024 15:59 GMT

#2412

andrewlt

United States7702 Posts

January 09 2024 23:22 GMT

#2413

I think season 2 started in mid-October and we're almost at the 3 month mark. I'm guessing season 3 will be a little delayed due to the holidays.

Archeon

3264 Posts

January 10 2024 14:21 GMT

#2414

On the not worth discussion: I think LE and PoE are deeper games with much better long term sustainability. However D4 has an enjoyable story and can be played less hardcore and therefore more easily together. I think if the expansion leans into these aspects I'd buy one, if it's good enough at 50€ too.

If you want to play your ARPG for 35+ hours a week I don't think you play d4. But that doesn't mean that there's no market for other audiences there.

andrewlt

United States7702 Posts

January 10 2024 16:50 GMT

#2415

Yah, I play videogames a lot but I would consider myself less hardcore than most of you. D4 had a 30-35% exp and gold buff during the week of Thanksgiving. I came back for it and leveled a char from 1-100 in around 50 hours that week. I don't think I have even played 10 hours after that week. 60 hours per character is around my sweet spot for coming back every now and then.

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

January 16 2024 18:35 GMT

#2416

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

January 18 2024 15:34 GMT

#2417

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

January 18 2024 17:04 GMT

#2418

Dev stream about to start.

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

January 23 2024 23:25 GMT

#2419

Day 1 of Season 3 and already bored, besides it is a buggy mess. It's quite obvious what Blizzard is doing with this spider "robot" companion that follows players this season. It is just Blizzard testing out their Mercenary system that, 90% sure, will be in Vessel of Hatred expansion that will be revealed later this year.

FaCE_1

Canada6184 Posts

January 24 2024 11:27 GMT

#2420

Same.
I didn't touch D4 during S2 and wanted to give it another chance with S3.

I'm at around lvl 33 and I don't know what to do anymore. The robot is pretty underwhelming and the "trap dongeon" are just boring.

what's worst, 2 out of my 5 "trap dongeon", the Son of Malphas spawned and there is no way in hell I kill this and I was just running away from him. So dum...