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Saw a lot of people happy for this.
Read from CBR:
Developers working on Diablo IV have claimed that meeting the game's recently-announced summer 2023 release date will be challenging without significant overtime.
Several employees of Activision Blizzard spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity and divulged details of Diablo IV's development process to the outlet. All accounts agreed that the role-playing game's June 6, 2023, release date would be unlikely without developers sacrificing their evenings and weekends to work on finishing the game or cutting content from the development plan. According to the employees, Diablo IV's release date has shifted multiple times and Blizzard management is incentivizing them to "crunch" in the final months. Many also say that a sense of dissatisfaction has been mounting at the company as the development team continues to hemorrhage talented developers to companies offering better pay and working conditions.
Employees were reportedly frustrated with comments made by CEO Bobby Kotick, who attributed Activision Blizzard's steep drop in share price last year to the delaying of Diablo IV and Overwatch 2. One developer said it felt as though Kotick had "drove the bus over on top of us" with his remarks and willfully ignored the impact of Activision Blizzard's numerous sexual harassment scandals, which have plagued the company since 2021. In a statement following the first lawsuit, Kotick promised to eliminate the company's "frat boy" culture and overhaul its discriminatory hiring and employment practices.
Developers working on Diablo IV have claimed that meeting the game's recently-announced summer 2023 release date will be challenging without significant overtime.
Several employees of Activision Blizzard spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity and divulged details of Diablo IV's development process to the outlet. All accounts agreed that the role-playing game's June 6, 2023, release date would be unlikely without developers sacrificing their evenings and weekends to work on finishing the game or cutting content from the development plan. According to the employees, Diablo IV's release date has shifted multiple times and Blizzard management is incentivizing them to "crunch" in the final months. Many also say that a sense of dissatisfaction has been mounting at the company as the development team continues to hemorrhage talented developers to companies offering better pay and working conditions.
Employees were reportedly frustrated with comments made by CEO Bobby Kotick, who attributed Activision Blizzard's steep drop in share price last year to the delaying of Diablo IV and Overwatch 2. One developer said it felt as though Kotick had "drove the bus over on top of us" with his remarks and willfully ignored the impact of Activision Blizzard's numerous sexual harassment scandals, which have plagued the company since 2021. In a statement following the first lawsuit, Kotick promised to eliminate the company's "frat boy" culture and overhaul its discriminatory hiring and employment practices.
They posted more stuff on season pass:
"The battle pass will last for the entire duration of a season. That season is 3 months, so you'll have plenty of time to work your way through the battle pass. Active players will have no problem with that. You're not going to run out of time," game director Joe Shely said.
Diablo IV Battle Pass - Key Info
Similar to Diablo II's ladder structure, players will "start fresh" with every Diablo IV season
Season passes will last 3 months each
Each season will have its own season pass
Battle pass is for cosmetics only -- will not have power
Can earn battle pass XP from regular in-game activities
Battle passes/season passes will carry over on different platforms (buy on Xbox, can still access battle pass progress on PC)
Battle pass will take about 75 hours to complete - players not expected to play every single day to complete it
No exact dates on when season will start, or what the theme/content will offer
Diablo IV will launch in a pre-season mode and the season will start "some weeks" after
Full cross-platform progression
"The battle pass will last for the entire duration of a season. That season is 3 months, so you'll have plenty of time to work your way through the battle pass. Active players will have no problem with that. You're not going to run out of time," game director Joe Shely said.
Diablo IV Battle Pass - Key Info
Similar to Diablo II's ladder structure, players will "start fresh" with every Diablo IV season
Season passes will last 3 months each
Each season will have its own season pass
Battle pass is for cosmetics only -- will not have power
Can earn battle pass XP from regular in-game activities
Battle passes/season passes will carry over on different platforms (buy on Xbox, can still access battle pass progress on PC)
Battle pass will take about 75 hours to complete - players not expected to play every single day to complete it
No exact dates on when season will start, or what the theme/content will offer
Diablo IV will launch in a pre-season mode and the season will start "some weeks" after
Full cross-platform progression
Game is causing GPUs to brick, read from tweaktown:
Multiple PC users are reporting that their expensive NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti video cards had bricked while playing the recent Diablo IV early access beta test.
While Diablo IV's lenient PC spec requirements indicate a well-optimized game, some users share troubling reports of their expensive graphics cards failing during gameplay. There have been multiple reports of NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti GPUs failing while playing the Diablo IV early access beta, with symptoms like GPU fan usage skyrocketing to 100% following an outright hardware shut down.
The amount of posts on Blizzard's Diablo IV forums indicate the problem may be serious. One post entitled Diablo 4 Bricked my GIGABYTE 3080 Ti is the top-viewed forum post. The official Diablo Reddit also has lots of comments lamenting GPUs lost due to this glitch and relating the issue to what happened with EVGA's graphics cards with New World. The bricking issue seems to affect GIGABYTE RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards the most. Users are at odds with a possible cause, but the general consensus seems to be pre-existing issues from faulty hardware.
Blizzard had cautioned players that the game was not finished and that crashes could occur. Neither Blizzard nor GIGABYTE have directly responded to the issue.
Gamers have identified a possible solution: Capping the video card's frame rate directly from the NVIDIA Control Panel.
Multiple PC users are reporting that their expensive NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti video cards had bricked while playing the recent Diablo IV early access beta test.
While Diablo IV's lenient PC spec requirements indicate a well-optimized game, some users share troubling reports of their expensive graphics cards failing during gameplay. There have been multiple reports of NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti GPUs failing while playing the Diablo IV early access beta, with symptoms like GPU fan usage skyrocketing to 100% following an outright hardware shut down.
The amount of posts on Blizzard's Diablo IV forums indicate the problem may be serious. One post entitled Diablo 4 Bricked my GIGABYTE 3080 Ti is the top-viewed forum post. The official Diablo Reddit also has lots of comments lamenting GPUs lost due to this glitch and relating the issue to what happened with EVGA's graphics cards with New World. The bricking issue seems to affect GIGABYTE RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards the most. Users are at odds with a possible cause, but the general consensus seems to be pre-existing issues from faulty hardware.
Blizzard had cautioned players that the game was not finished and that crashes could occur. Neither Blizzard nor GIGABYTE have directly responded to the issue.
Gamers have identified a possible solution: Capping the video card's frame rate directly from the NVIDIA Control Panel.
