The only thing this road map leads to is a dead end.
I wonder if the Diablo title can even recover at this point. The franchise destroyer has worked his magic again.

man, great questions! The first question was actually some excellent journalism. Put the question in a way that wasn’t an attack while still asking Brent to provide a meaningful position on the state of devops.

Now we can guestimate the release date of 2nd DLC: spring 2026.

Diablo 4 still suck but what sucks more are shills like Rhykker. Keep sucking balls bro

I agree with everyone that borrowed powers every season is getting old. But its crazy how many people are simping for POE2. Pointing to a game like this that is in such a bad place right now and they admit they have a terribly long way to go and are consistently not making their fans happy and even actively arguing against their player base. But somehow that developer is so much better than blizzard 🙄. I’ve played both extensively. I can’t even imagine playing poe2 again until another major patch or two. Such a boring grind fest with perceived customization but none of it actually works. At least in this game I can think up a build and make it work. The absurdly jarring moment you go from campaign to maps and realize the game isn’t even a 1/3 cooked and all these promises they are failing to deliver over and over.

These are the same people who made POE1 and they can’t figure it out either. After two more years to cook POE2 may be a better game than D4 but let’s not forget D4 will be cooking too. I’m not either or, I play both but anyone who thinks POE2 is a better game “game” is high. It doesn’t respect my time and is mostly unfun to play after the first play through. Then they just made it even harder and more boring. Yay!

people at blizzard are very good at talking alot and saying nothing

Seasonal content literally killed the entire genre… there’s no way AARPGS could ever be good anymore with today’s “standards”

i’d rather have a new borrowed power every season than 2847 different evergreen mechanics that would require a PHD for new people to get into the game, i’m excited for every new season no matter if it’s “the same” that’s why i still play D3 every season just because i love both of these games

I feel the dungeon system they hinted at will be some sort of meta progression system akin to maps / monolith. Perhaps I’m thinking too much into it.

So many people complaining about the game. Just play something else, this clearly isnt your cup of tea🤷‍♂️

I played this game since it first came out and looking at this roadmap it’s just disappointing it’s exactly the same thing every season just looks copy and paste with new powers. Why can’t they ever learn from D1 D2 D3?! hell even Last Epoch is more enjoyable and had more really great changes than D4 has done in the past. Every season is the same in D4 nothing really changes

So uhm.. What was the point of this Interview exactly if 95% of the stuff to talk about are considered spoilers and cant be talked about yet? 🥴
The only exciting part comes up in 2026 as most likely a Paladin type class fitting into the Diablo 4 Story is going to be introduced into the game, but with rumours that a Diablo 5 is possibly coming way sooner than probably expected, I dont know if its really worth to invest in the next Expansion somewhere in 2026 to begin with.
As for the Seasons: Jeez how creative.. Every 3 month a new borrowed power that just ever so slighty changes some passive effect, Im super thriled about that 🙄

New IP collaboration – Puke 360

I didn’t buy the VoH xpac and I won’t be buying the 2026 xpac after seeing this garbage roadmap. I’m sick of borrowed powers. I’m sick of them expecting us to pay for this shit over and over and over. I think most people would be okay with a $19.99 charge for the xpacs, but the $40, $60, and $90 price points are atrociously greedy AF for the garbage they are dumping. No thank you.

Yella

Doom collab please!!!!

I will be very honest with you. After watching Ziz vs Jonathan, I have a bar set high for an interview. Am I the only one thinking that there is a MOUNTAIN of issues when it comes to D4? Monetization, QoL, power/number scaling, repeatable seasons, lack of consistent game vision?

Continually costing money for premium seasons when they still, have yet, to actually balance the game.

Its always in a constant state of unbalance with a handful of builds switching in and out of “meta” every single season…

Every build with time , should be able to be a “meta build”

Balance the freaking game

These 2 things should’ve long been done. They definitely need done before anything on that entire road map is even started on.

Seriously, it should be all hands on deck to accomplish these 2 primary goals. Don’t tell me they don’t have money, theve milking fans with over priced expansion and premium seasons with recycled mechanics for awhile now, not including the criminal price points of the skins in the item shop.

I’m done with D4 until it’s balanced period. I don’t care about seasons, expansions, skins, fomo events or anything else..

balance the dang game!!! Let any and every build with enough time and items be able to be a meta build!!! Let the power fantasy flow as it should. Stop trying to cap it. Let it go and let the world stop scaling after a certain point. Let fun happen.

After playing D2R for the last two months and then hopping back into D4, I can easily say I have never been more disappointed with it.

The graphics are way more cartoony than I had originally thought. The world lacks a feeling of exploration. The NPC’s are completely forgettable. BUT, WORST OF ALL, the loot is absolutely terrible. The idea to just rewrite legendary powers with other legendary powers makes every piece of gear redundant. I played D4 for about 4 hours and I I just can’t bring myself to continue. It just doesn’t do the job as good as D2R.

After seeing this interview, I can say that they don’t have a clue what this game is about… after 2 years they know what they want and is boring, repetitive and it’s like Diablo 3 but on steroids… Ppl will come for new season, play for 2 weeks and delete the game, then wait for new season again. After a while they will stop coming to the game at all… with the pain in my heart I have to say that this game will die like d3 has, long time ago… I hope I’m wrong tho…

No rainbow armor… looks like Blizzard is getting talked to by Activision and Microsoft about ditching DEI.

Anyone who plays this game, deserves what they get. XD

6:30 “don’t betray the brand” … bit late for that brother.

I don’t see myself returning to D IV any time soon. Season 8 takes what i hate most in the game (bosses) and makes it the season theme and the following seasons don’t seem much better either. Builds all play too similarly, so why restart every time? It gets boring real quick.

Diablo 4 and Supernatural Collaboration

Another season of powers…in the end we loose everything. To me is a big NO! /uninstall

Good enterview

Sexy alien powers season when?

Bro, i suppose they gave you a list of no questions but come on, ask smth meaningful, this roadmap is garbage i dont think even you likes it, so lack of creativity and lazyness, its so sad

I don’t know how players can make it any more clear that we want something fun to do in Endgame … and this is their answer?

I really want D4 to succeed, but even after all this time , the game is missing some huge features…. Kind of a bummer. 😅
Leaderboards , and end game crazy game play would go a long way

1:52 – so basically you have 0 idea nad you dont give a single F about what WE, PLAYERS, want. We dont need stupid powers to do allready stupidly easy content more easly. I mean.. its.. like.. i mean.. WHY!!!
2:20 – content? you call powers CONTENT? seasonal quests CONTENT? is this this “Great stuff” ?
3:21 – i dont believe in a single word, you had almost 2 years to react, you bascially were patching and fixing things that SHOULD be in a base game from day 1, so i highly doubt you and your team will come up with something NEW or GOOD.
3:45 – yeah sure, we were begging for endgame, for things to do, to challenge ourselfs and what we get? NOTHING. Whole game can be done in 2-3 days if you put some time in it, if not, 2 weeks at MAX.
4:28 – dark fantasy? where? because i dont see this game to be DARK fantasy, its a shiny, clean, no bloody, no stuff flying around loot pinata where everything is raining from the sky
5:01 – inspired by many things? again, where? i dont see ANY inspirations that are coming from books, tv shows or the most important one: FROM OTHER GAMES, everything you put is your ideas and every time its bugged, not tested properly and DUMB
—————————–> we’re 5 minutes into watching and im allready like.. wtf why am i watching this but lets move on <---------------------------------- 5:48 - so wasting internal time on skins, gg 7:15 Rhykker, my friend, dont be scared to say it PROPERLY: so we had Loot fixed because was BAD, Progression Fixed because was BAD which can be easly said: "we had some things that were so bad that you guys had to waste dev time to fix it instead of making something new" 11:55 - "our lore is very deep" yeah something to be really proud of, story is endgame, people wants LORE XDDD come on XDDDD quick question, how many of you remember what was the lore in season 1? or two? XDDD because me personally, i was skipping this sh!t right after 13:50 - "every season is focused on an activity" because thats the best you can do, which means, you have no idea how to make them interesting in a NEW way, instead of making some new content that will stay, you want to replay the same thing over and over for no reason with 0 - i mean TOTALLY 0 creativity 16:37 - "we ant to give players more choice" first of all, give us MORE builds, because every single class have 1-2 builds and thats it - this should be your focus but hell no! lets give players anew system, in that case Infernal Hordes, make it as stupid and easy and with 0 creativity as possible and lets fix it 2 years later as a new seasonal theme XDDDD 20:35 - dude, stop, you learnt alot? like you learnt from mistakes made in D3? releasing game with SAME mistakes like in d3? so you want us, players to believe you have learnt alot? another chance? which one is it right now? three number digit? 21:54 - 22:08 - its a first GOOD sentence i heard so far, but as usual, im 100% sure you will screw it up baaadly... 22:31 - again.. its a simple question and the fact that he said "no" was hard to listen.. even tho he said "no because of feedback" but still.. unreal 22:48 - again, i dont believe you, you removed it because it was bugged, exploits everywhere and most important one: NOBODY was playing it so why keep it? 24:20 - WHAT? "we got a game that allows people to really play the way they wanna play" WHAAAAAAAAAT? 25:32 - really fun and good question Rhykker 😀 good job with this one!

Boy, let’s say, they are still fixing the game… It seems before 2nd expansion, they are just fixing the game… sigh 😮‍💨😑

Grinding for powers/board checklist is boring af. N now that’s what we gonna b doing all year?! They put more effort into the skins vs (for ex) endgame n fixing bugs where builds r pigeonholed in etc

The game doesnt have a good loot design base to be capable of seasonal content similar to POE and Last Epoch…
Just the same old boring loot drops. At this point it needs a redisign with new added items to chase as well as better loot customization and crafting.
Loot 3.0~

Love the idea of the ranking system as a casual player I always thought the leaderboard was for hardcore players but now I feel like this ranking system could be worth it

give me Ash as a merc.

Glad theyre focusing on challenge and shoring up NMDs. Im sure it wàsnt easy having to rebuild the entire game twice, so hopefully not doing that will free them up. Really a shame that POE2 players just poo poo the game constantly even though their own game is flopping. But oh well

How about they provide more skills to the trees I mean twigs. 😂 Last epoch is looking better and better.

Looks like the same thing every season lol.

Yea, yea how giving us more STASH space !!!!

POE2 is bad, but D4 is even badder. Am i rly going back to Diablo 2? Yes.

No more powers

Fire Rod Ferguson. ✅🔥

Delay expansion ✅✅

Focus year on end game content and systems (within the seasons)✅✅✅

This game is dead to me otherwise. Between LE and POE2 – there’s enough there to hold my time to make Diablo 4 irrelevant. Nothing exciting in this roadmap other than cut/copy/paste.

“Roadmap” 😅 thats a prototype of a roadmap, an idea. Internal mindmap. I do this at work and i wouldnt release this.

You cannot simply make the game more challenging, you also need to add the right framework for it: Leaderboards for Pits for instance. Competitive people will tell you that pushing higher Pit tiers is meaningless. But it’s even more than that, the leaderboards in D3 were my go-to when I logged on and it’s not even about seeing who is at the top, but more so what kind of build is at the top, what is new, what changes did they make, what are other classes doing, did somebody find a new build or a new tech? That is what I miss the most.

so many non-answers I don’t understand why he even bothered coming on

Sooo more of the same.. got it. D3 just came to gamepass. I wonder why…

Diablo 4 is gonna have a real hard time competing with poe2. It’s just leagues better and it’s not even out yet

Omg even with leaderboards they are trying to fit in casual players. This game will never be good if they are constantly trying to make everyone happy.

I was a paladin in D2 for ages. I genuinely don’t get the obsession with it. Did I love my paladins? Yep, hammered in, zealot, holy, lots of fun for many years. I’d still be dramatically more interested in an entirely new class with new themes, class fantasy and mechanics.

Having 8 different difficulties it’s a terrible idea. We need a difficulty rebalance 2.0. If torment 4 is there, players will want to reach it. If the easiest difficulty has everything in it, then there is no end game… they need to stop trying to develop a game for people (casuals v blasters), and just develop a good game.

Not being able to reveal anything seems to be a theme… why do we care about Diablo 4 again?

Same old powers, same old grind, same old locations.

If they want to retain players, they have to bring change to the game. Say, every third or forth season, add something with the season that stays in the game.

I look at this roadmap and see nothing but a bunch of the same.

Diablo IV… dont care anymore.
Thanks for info video thou Rhykker.

No leaderboards until 2026 and we are still getting borrowed powers and reputation tracks the rest of the year…. Jesus Christ man

Maybe one day I can just play Diablo 4, rather than just “seasonal” content that changes every few months and typically doesn’t stick in the base game.

Why did u not ask about end game

Maybe a dumb question but what does “IP” means ? In IP collab ?

Yeah this is not great to see. Thoroughly disappointed

I don’t think I’ve ever experienced less hype for a release. I could barely tolerate letting this play in the background , it’s soooooo sleepy.

GOODNESS! Dosnt matter what diablo rolls out, you clowns are always whining!

I gave up on Diablo 4 6 months ago

No new content but new IP skins and season passes – we gonna get your money!

Thank you for this interview

They came up with ONE season mechanic and just reskin it for all seasons. Amazing

What I hear in this is they have leaked into the casual spot for this game. I still enjoy it but it’s not going to be D2 ….ever

I lost a lot of hope when Adam Jackson left. He seemed to be one of the only people with a sophisticated understanding of what they’re doing and had a clear vision. This doesn’t make me feel better. It’s pretty much a dead year so they can get an expansion out. Which is fine I guess, but also very disappointing.

This is d4 or d3? Looks the same or worst

Think outside the box next time. Ask about endgame systems. Ask about clan features. Ask about season powers coming to Eternal and why that’s not a thing. Ask deep questions about the philosophy behind where the game is going. Instead of asking about systems that are currently in the game, push for new things. New content. New systems. -especially a marketplace and clan features like housing and clan dungeons/raid of up to 12 players and clan stashes for sharing items with the clan members.

PLease fix overpower.. i dont like the stat and i have to build into it to follow my friends in content

Seems like we wont get paladin from the dev answer. . . Well get something with holy powers but if its not a crusader/paladin/inquisitor and its a range holy class people will riot.

Love the paladin question at the end. Though people only want it because it was broken (due to runewords and whatnot), though bring in spiritborn where it’s broken and people complain it’s op. Can’t win

i am excited for the refinement of activites. I am sure they are keeping fresh new activities for the expansion which is understandable.

One thing with leader boards is a main key factor of casual players. Sometimes we just want to compete against friends or within a clan in a friendly way. We’re not aiming for elite or the best of the best, though we can learn from leader board builds if we can’t or don’t want to theory craft or even if we do. Just come back and say “my friend/clan member shot up the ladder, let me try”

I’m tired of seasons and temporary content, guys.

I’m a Diablo fan, I won’t play 4 more seasons of borrowed powers, And I definitely won’t buy another half-baked expansion.

How come Rod Fergusson doesn’t do interviews? Is he to busy playing/criticising PoE 2? 😂

New class probably be a Horadric Knight which has elements of paladin, crusader and some herodric arcane magic

I want unique set to return, when u complete a specific set it will grant you previous seasonal power

Sounds good! I have really lost intrest in DiabloIV as the season haven’t really been that impactful for the story of the game. It feels like sidemissions that you don’t really have to do. :’D

Very interesting interview and some great questions, thanks!

With the amount of time the game has been out and the amount of content added the game is tired already. Powers every season is lame af

Diablo 4 is definitely one of the games ever made

When do they allow players to level a battlepass on non seasonal characters, cause they still dont do it and not everyone wants to play seasonal characters only ?

Loved the comment around the Infernal Hordes. They think a lot of people are playing it because they like it. No it sucks. I hate running it but what choice do we have to get large amount of mats to master work an item 10million times. If we didn’t have to master work a piece of gear from scratch each and every time people wouldn’t not be spending so much time in it. On the road side of things it looks dry as fark. More Powers. The Joy.

So a larger bracket covering until expansion is “patch notes” “fixing the game” and expansion 2 is “full release”😅

Insane that they have fully committed to borrowed power as being the only thing seasons will do. 900 developers and thats the best they can do which is the same thing over and over. Nauseating how confident he is that this is just what D4 is. Hate to say it but Immoral is trashing them.

I am kind of disappointed from you not asking the REAL QUESTION – where is the friking creativity ? 8 seasons some random different color powers… what the hell, so boring and tired of grinding the same shit in different skin… I want the game to be good but i feel that blizz is not even trying anymore. Doing some total basic stuff that gets dull in the 5th time.

Man just copy some diablo 3 ones at this point it’d be more fun

Forgot this game existed lol

This road map killed me 🤣🤣

D4 is still shit

Im so glad you asked! Please can make traversing the map more seemless ie. horses. My horse rubber banding when it dosnt want me to traverse to the next area is so annoying, surely something can be done about this.

Did you watch Ziz’s interview with GGG? That’s how these things should go.

Never beating the X colour helltides allegations

so we’re not getting a paladin 🙁

It doesn’t feel good to be a Diablo fan these days… when are we getting actual, good content?

Put more maps in diablo 2 and new enemies,more weapons and skills, not too many, just a few and keep going every year with new stuff and you won’t need anything else. Everything is too flashy, too much light in d3. D4, poe and other mmo. Simple looking cuz it looks more clean, but at the same time more dark almost scary. When i look at the screen when i play d3, d4 or poe the whole screen is a bunch of flashy lights, and you kill too many enemies at same time , it’s not enjoyable, too many enemies and also the players have too many helpers minions on screen at the same time.

If i was working on d4 and someone told me to put that roadmap out and i saw boss powers,horadric powers,Chaos powers i would be embarrased to do it 😀
And then there is another cringe moment where you realize that you are waiting for leaderboards so you can have fun if you are competitive player for 2 expansions already.
Is this a JOKE? 2 years after release and we still don’t have proper leaderboards like in Diablo 3…

thanks comments, i don’t waste my time watching this vid.

I know people generally dislike Diablo Immortal (DI) but I wish both games are more connected with one another. In the past there are some loosely connected themes ie, in DI there are Spirit Born skins and D4 season 2 is Vampire themed corresponding to the release of the Blood Knight in DI. However I want to see perhaps a bi-monthly event where say you do something in DI, you get some cosmetic rewards in D4 and vice versa. That way you can get players from either side to try both games

Hello Ranker, tell them to make the hud customizable.

So the game is going to be DEAD until new expansion. F seasons game looks its on life support now. Good thing POE exist just waiting for full release and i can play an actualy GOOD game that has effort into it then dry the fanboys up life support mode.

What a nice juicy nothingburger.

What would really satisfy me is access to blink-like abilities that isn’t locked behind a class.

Half my builds i reach a point where the overworld is all 1 shot and mobility is scaled to maximum with low effort so I cannot improve that character anymore for that activity which is my favorite.

Or increase movement speed cap, or use a softcap system to reduce returns of movement speed past 200%. Because once you one shot everything at max capped attack speed you get zero progress and that becomes very boring.

Cant we have eternal content? F seasons just for people with no life or jobs tbh. Give me a reason to play besides season. New gear/little zones/bosses/actual fun raids and dungeons. 1 group and 1 solo. Give me stuff to do that also lvl up my glyphs besides boring pits. Is it that hard to make fun that isnt just pointles temp powers. Horde was great but yea doing sane stuff for a year sucks.

Knowing Blizzard it won’t be a Paladin but a Ninja Turtle or something.

I’m ok with all of this. But I love the game already as it is, so I may be biased. S7 has been the best so far for me.

Didn’t answer the season journey, answered a question he proposed instead. That tells me, T4 objectives might be in the season journey..for 10% of players to enjoy.

Lots of word salad without much information.

Season of Borrowed Powers.
Copy/Paste for 9 months.
Done.
Every season a pet ,every season new ip collab (skins=money) + some stupid easy copy/paste event.
Done.

Wow, innovative.

People are complaining about endgame, but the nightmare dungeon and infernal hordes stuff is making those activities better, thus improving the endgame. People really just love to complain.

So basically nothing. Move on to Diablo 5 already

This whole ‘PoWeR FaNTaSy’ thing where you are almighty and wipe out everything with one click and there is basically no gameplay is not beneficial for the franchise.

What an unimpressed road map think It is time to give up on this game

So… Just more seasons of the same template. New temporary powers + random zone with new temporary color and re-skinned mobs. All that time designing temporary powers and zones, we could have had a lot of new skills and permanent end game activities made instead *sigh*

The game needs a proper emd game. Something similar to the monolith system from LE will fit perfectly here.

Also, give us mors QoL options, like auction house. Why do i have to go to outside websies to trade?..

So collabs for shop only, got it, super exciting…

Borrowed powers is pretty much admitting that they failed the basic class design imo.

Great, more “powers” every season…. no interesting mechanics, just borrowed powers. So lame

So… I feel like he used a whole lot of words to say nothing much at all. One of the things I found really striking, you asked specifically about putting season journey goals in T4, and he just blabbed around it not addressing that at all.
I’ll still play, probably, but I’m not getting any more excited by this. What’s revealed is the bare minimum and it just makes me feel more like their development is really on a crawl…

All i heard was alot of yapping. These people clearly don’t care anymore.

Rhykker should have asked him if the next expansion story is going to suck as well. I have always loved the Diablo story, last expansion was the worst in the series……

I just want these seasons to be adding meaningful power augmentation that stays in the game. Give us a season that lets us dive deeper into class specific mechanics or abilities.. let me do more things with my skills.

Bring back Jay Wilson and get him to double it.

Some people like cake, some people like pie, blizzard gives us turd

Why don’t they make more PvP activities? So that there would be a point in leveling up, experimenting with builds, etc. You can make some clan battles/wars, for example, weekly battles for ownership of a castle, which would subsequently give advantages to all members of the clan that owns the castle. Leaderboards, collaborations, etc. will not bring players back to this boring game.

who the fu is brent gibson

Bro wtf…
What the actual fvck!
How can cuz sit there and talk about “community feedback” etc and then say what he says…

IP collab? This isn’t Summoners War what in the gotcha is this?!
From what I can see the majority of people don’t want PoE like and not even necessarily D2 like but just something in the middle…
Slowing levelling because of the lack of end game isn’t a fix!
Who is making these decisions?

Hoooooly I feel like a crazy person with this push pull roller coaster blizzard have us on…

im not a “d4 bad” person but honestly this is kinda disappointing lol. having every season’s gimmick being the same is just kinda boring. its hard to get excited for something ive already played to death

Season 8 is fairly good, just a lot of junk loot still

the new expansion is giving me vibes with all theses seasons that we can probably see new skills and elemental or damage types for each class. Each power is a take on how & what they can do with each class specifically.

This is the most useless roadmap I’ve ever seen. Do they really think finding new temporary powers to give us every session is fun content?

Also where are the set items? 😂

No one plays Diablo 4 anymore.

I love Diablo but this feels like it’s in maintenance mode as D3 no one is working on it anymore if there are only updates in battle pass or cosmetics… not really interested in anything from this roadmap in 2025

gREAT INTERVIEW! THANKS

Regardless of the seasonal powers etc. D4 has hope i mean dude look how long it took d3. I play diablo because I enjoy it with my fiance & my friends. It’s part of my childhood my first ARPG it will always be close to me regardless.

So… Diablo 3 seasons…looks like were heading to maintenance mode

Actual endgame when?!

I have nothing against the game, it was fun to play. I played 4 first seasons,. but there is nothing which would make me to get back to game. I even didnt bother to buy an expasion (it is expensive even with all the promos). There is planty other games, no reason to play this one longer

I need to see sam and Dean Winchester as a ip collab

So pretty much every season is the same, just different kinds of powers. 😂

This guy is like a security guard who can’t say shit. Wtf is he guarding? Trade secrets? Can’t even make a proper arpg it’s all for kids

Whats with the pets? they are fun but jeez, they think i play for pets or something lol

26 leaderboards? 😂 maybe then I will check back

Always a bad sign when a simple question gets an over complicated answer tht doesnt 100% answer the simple question. All i really got was “Yeah we dont really know what we are doing still, just winging it but if shit goes wrong we will eventually fix it”.

The Power themes is such a lazy design and in no way endgame. It should be a bonus addition with the seasonal theme NOT THE theme. Thank you Rhykker for this interview but it didnt instill confidence or positivity. Maybe Expansion 2 will be more promising then these filer seasons.

He didn’t answer the question about tying seasonal progression to torment 4.

More permanent powers, no more borrowed powers, so annoying! I’m sick of powers that pop up then vanish next season..

Oh boy! Another borrowed powers season! I can’t wait to see D4 in four years and what kind of “power” they are pulling out of their ass to keep this game limping along.

Yeah, I don’t care. I uninstalled d4 and don’t miss playing that lackluster game.

Aint gonna sugar coat it, whole year seems lack luster. I havent played since s6/expansion, and there isnt anything that would entice me to come back. Devs seems to lack vision/direction dont know what to do with game. Season powers is nice gimmick , but not really thing for whole season, i go to POE/POE2/LE for season i see reason to go there, but for d4 is meh.

Its only april, and they already talk about 2026, get into 2026, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. This gives you impression that they just want half ass this rest of year,make expansion , cash in on new class. What the fuck.

Heres analogy for you, D4 is like a guy who procrastinates and always says “next month, next year ill start doing this and that”, but he never does, always ”stretching rubber”,waiting some kind of divine intervention to get his shit together.

1.make some little activity, tie it to new season powers
2.half ass rest of season updates
3. half ass rest of year
4.?????
5. make new expansion,class
6. profit (cash in on said new expansion, new class.)

rinse and repeat

What a great interview about monitization….. this doesn’t make me want to go back to diablo 4 at all.

oh yeah more reskinned versions of teh same powers…. this is seasons now? and revamp systems that are not great….. stash tabs when? 2026 for the ladder? I love this game but this is stale content….

Why not have seasons with stories leading up to the big expansion instead of a different random story every season ?? Continue the story leading up to something

Maintenance mode between expansions.

Just make the seasonal borrowed powers as permanent endgame mechanics.

when you need other ips to prop yours up because all your ideas become extremely extremely formulaic imo you have a dead game attempting to be held up with creatively bankrupt creators, it might work when play sessions are their own 20-30 min bubble, but this , this isnt it imo. I miss when other things referenced diablo, not the other way around. there is a reason why so many use diablo2 music when doing videos and not diablo 4/3

14:40 I don’t understand why can’t it be permanent which adds to the base of the NMD longer than a length of the season. Why do you prefer one time, fixed length refresh over permanent refresh. In S7 the seasonal whispers were amazing and it will be gone.

Yikes. Very yikes

Not a Huge Fan of this Powers they keep wanting to take everyone down on. it’s getting very Old Fast. People want End Game. we could care less of every season its a New Power’s scene. they need to get more creative than that. It’s so hard to stay Positive and not loos your Temper because there not listening to the Player Base.Give us End Game give us Diabloe. Hence your Game Title. it’s not Hard Math to figure out. Wait. we Dont want to go down that Rabbit hole again with there Math. End Game End Game maybe throw in the cow Level. make it more Interesting to throw on Rod Ferguson Head on a Cow in the Cow level and everyone Kill it.COme On Devs.

7:18 sounds like more artificial FOMO

Powers this, powers that. A whole year of just powers to boost and change. No innovation, no crazy changes to the skill tree. Nothing about End Game, NO MENTION OF A LOOT FILTER. No map overlay. Yeah, blizzard is REALLY LISTENING TO US.

Im still waiting to play until there’s a knight/pally class. Whens that?

So every season is just remaking everything Diablo 3 had over 30 seasons hmmm. So original blizzard.

D2 would just reset ladder while buidling entirely on the core game. Why aren’t we doing this again?

I’m not even make it through this video…let alone reinstall…

wish there was more unscripted stuff like red dead redemption to happen upon in the open world. stuff that isnt in an orange circle on the map. maybe its not even an activity, just a really interesting npc roaming around. maybe the randomly generated npc has really rare items you can buy for crazy prices. anything for some spontaneity to where everytime i log in im excited about like what im going to find. super rare mobs like almost as rare as mythic items that you can find in dungeons maybe.

Blizz needs to just stop, kill the servers and turn D4 into a single player game and just release expacs with additional acts to continue the story and then let it sit until the next expac

Ryyker appreciate your input but even you have to admit inside that this is very Boring 🥱Same formuła different story and extremely boring pointless farming. Seasons have nothing to propose it becomes nonsense to even begin discussion with Devs. Dark ? Whats dark ? Floating dmg number with rainbows over your heads with Peta and other crap floating around you from powers. Goodbye. 👋🏻

The ladder or leaderboard is coming late. This power or that power for the new season actually fun? Or is it just about buying more cosmetics every season—for more money, money, money. Moooneeey!
Wait—let’s slow down leveling, drag out the mid-game, and still have no endgame. Sounds fun.

As a fellow ARPG enjoyer, I definitely am sad about what sounds like all borrowed power systems for each seasonal gimmick. I’d love if they added alternative ways of playing with a seasonal theme. An Atlas or Monolith system is a must, I think. Pits are just rifts where we go somewhere filled with monsters…. they could easily have us explore areas in Sanctuary in that kind of way, or even explore different parts of Hell.

so rinse repeat on powers with different names – ugh

it just leaked out that the game will be 💩 until 2026 lol im gonna uninstall d4 now forget this game existed

i want more rare stuff to find and be excited when it drops. right now theres 4GAs and mythics but something else like rare gems or something

40k collab

Lol, poor little, fickle gamers crying about computer games.

Hi Rhykker. Great video! I really enjoyed it. Can I share your video with my viewers?

Looks awful tbh. Bunch of dumb powers we already seen a hundred times. Nothing new or any endgame.

Most uncreative low iq developers in the industry. Blizzard had lost it long ago.

“New Expansion” and “New Class” are two different, separated, points on the 2026 list. I don’t think they’ve been shy about saying the expansion has a new class. To me this feels like they just teased two new classes next year. He also said the expansion class will surprise people, could they do “paladin” in a way that would surprise anyone? I wonder if this means the expansion class will be something brand new again, and then as a free update or mini-DLC (like the D3 necro) maybe we will get a paladin separately.

I thought this was a joke, blank powers, blank powers, blank powers lmfao. This is so fucking shit. Guess POE2 if it gets better or LE it is!

Without permanent additions that expand on the already thin endgame, I will stick with POE2 and LE. The “powers” do nothing for me anymore. I could not care less about a different colored Helltides.

Everyone seems down about new powers each season, that is EXACLY what I want-New Builds. POE seasons can be just kill things in blue screen, kill enemies that poison you, kill enemies blah blah. Whole new systems like Settlers are fantastic but rare, I’ll take a new way to build my sorc each season differently over just kill changes everyday.

Man I was hoping for a Loot Filter, an Auction house, maybe a roguelike mode or new progression systems. I’m one of D4’s biggest fans I play every season and defend the game every chance I get. The fact they are still doing system reworks in 2025 is a massive fucking dissapointment.

An unpopular opinion probably, but I value the devs being deliberate, careful and unrushed — i.e. not making knee-jerk reactions to feedback, not rushing unpolished content, not taking the game down a path that is off-brand. PoE lost me many years ago for all these reasons. Devs are far from perfect (who is) but I appreciate polish, brand integrity and deliberate game evolution to stay true to its core.

So lame. A power then B power and then CDEF..

I finally jumped off the D4 train a couple of days into season 7 after seeing awful it was. Came here to check out the road map and…yikes lol

Angel and demon powers would be cool, can only pick one. Choose your side in essence. Then you could have specific angels and demons give their powers through quests, more lore more fun and gimme some nice character creation options based on your choice

Choice has to be meaningful though. Without incremental balance of “Super Unviable” stuff, then the choice is like “Bloodwave or rage quit.” Additionally, if everything is, “pull packs, obliterate, repeat” that’s not choice. If we get some A-tier gear with 6 prefix/suffixes, 9 build-altering options for each, that’s 1 million build-altering options per gear slot. It’s like 10 million builds.

+9000 for a meta progress system like PoE or LE.

D4 is sorely lacking a true endgame system that keeps us on the edge of our seats for more than a week or two. Beyond that, I find the approach they’re taking with the season system monumentally boring: the power of this, the power of that, with a small activity on the side, but where we’re still forced to do all the others in an unappealing open world with timers. It’s becoming really annoying. The game is sorely lacking in novelty in terms of classes, skills, etc. Having to wait for an expansion every time for that, and even then, only one more class and skill, really??? NO, that’s not enough!!!

I know many players just want to log in and play with their brains on the edge of the table. I like doing that too, but seriously, a small game like Survivor or something similar for less than €/$10 is more than enough for that. Blizzard has the means to do much more than that, to do something truly big, but instead they’re content to do the bare minimum, riding on past glory while making us pay a fortune… It’s petty, mediocre, and sad to see the Diablo franchise treated like this.

Oh, and of course, still nothing regarding the game’s economy; it’s a real disaster, and the bot/gold sellers are all over the place…

@6:09 DOOM PLS DOOOOM!!!

Remember when Diablo 2 and 3 had an in game micro transaction shop, battle passes and reused road map? Yeah me neither

@1:15 I’m so confused by this question. They said back before the game launched that they had 3 teams working side by side. 1 team working on the current interation (ie the live season) a team working on the next season and a team working on the season after that. It’s always been this way it shouldn’t be a surprise to Rhykker….

The builds and gameplay are stale. They should have reworked the skill tree and added skills that modify others like POE. Bah.

man the devs just. dont. get. it.

Haters gonna hate, can’t do much about it. Personally, I’m happy that they will focus on nightmare dungeons after S8 and Infernal Hordes after that. Paladin is basically confirmed and leaderboards are coming. I also don’t understand the problem with season powers. There are many ways how you can design a season around temporary new powers and skills. Actually the upcoming boss powers of S8 are pretty fundamental changes to character builds, so I’m not bored at all, I just hope they get the balance right.

i still really hope we dont just get a generic paladin class. with the state of sanctuary, i want to see a new religion crop up where we get a shield class that uses both holy & demonic spells

Rhykker was there any reason you softballed the questions for this interview?

Bruh this road map looks so dull

My money is on Doom: Dark Ages tie in. The game is already on the Battlenet launcher and they share the love of demon killing

NMDs need to have the ability to be “juiced” like PoE2 maps.

Im done. I cant keep defending this game.

This guy speaks like a politician.

I like that they basically say “this is the standard format of a season to expect” if this is combined with more of this cycles feeding to permanent improvements I am happy.

I think there are people that feel like the game is still bad and needs massive changes. This roadmap says we think the baseline is good and no massive shifts are coming (except for expacs), just polish cycles.

It’s obviously “New Ass”…

Clan stash.. more stash space (Last Epoch gave like what?>. 100 tabs– more classes/newer classes.. means more items.. means we need more stash space…newer mythics..etc)… ability to gift items to friends and/or clan mates maybe restricted to 1 per day per person.. TRADE Marketplace… juice strongholds.. allow them to be retaken back by hell monsters.. so we can cycle them as continuous activity content… loot filter.. map overlay.. the Goblin event.. full screening with subo map hack was just stupid.. map overlay solves such clunky gameplay. More COMMUNITY DRIVEN events and content please.

I think this Roadmap is awesome, good to know I don’t have to return till 2026 🎉

I would enjoy a season of the cow 😀 That would make me play, or a season of the greed with special dungeons like vault…

I think the Eternal realm needs development

Bruh did they not advertise this interview or was it a secret? I swear d4 does some of the goofiest shit ever.

if there isnt a paladin/templar expansion. dead game 100%

Rhykker you were way too nice to him.

Good Stuff Rhykker : )

Bro cant even do timestamps

Great roadmap!

I have been hoping they would put some sort of end game in. Still no. If the developers cared about the game and wanted players to come back they’re already know what we want. They just refuse to give. Big Diablo fan, and I can’t come back. They want to play dress up in a “dark g.”” . Yeah, right. Ruining an amazing franchise that has so much to offer.

Try looking at what the east does for there Battle passes

First up the battle passes are rubbish , but stuff in that is dam good or just keep doing that rubbish

No end game, and there is no new classes so wtf. All I hear is they want more and more money.

This is the worst road map iv ever seen. Wow. 0 effort. All I see is powers. Powers. Powers. Lacking content big time. D4 and poe2 really dropping the ball lately.

Same shit different toilet

Yeaaa taking a long break…. we want meaningful content not copy and paste mechanics

imagine doing the same league for a whole fucking year

@Rhykker, if you ask the real questions that players wants, they will stop making interviews with you. Keep nodding.

No real endgame.. does that spells the end? lol

26:15 if you read my comments and applied, like Paladin/Anti-Paladin (blood knight) 2 classes in one expansion, you’ll get my money.

Don’t forget my Healer class, that will make 3 for 2026, ask Grok for your inclusive coding.

best of the best lolol

Imagine telling your friends that you are number 1 in Diablo 4 lololol

There’s a lot of bullcrap again.. 24:22 “Play how you wanna play” but you’ll end up with a Meta to complete the season.. makes me pissed.

I want to play with no gear and do Pit 150.. doable? lol

I hope one day we get to pick sides ether side with the angels or side with the demons that would be interesting

19:29 if you need to ask am i good, you aren’t.

Funny thing what the fear of Path of Exile can produce, a shitstorm of content 😂 (borrowed powers every season, how creative…)
And yet, Blizzard had their chance, more than once, more than twice. Not going to download this game a third time.

so literally nothing… LMAO bli$$ is so cooked hahahahahaha

We need more skills per class. Not only 1 per 3 season or expansion.

– You can branch the skill tree from the basic skill and then add another branch from there.

– As well, ASCENDED CLASSES! Once we reach lvl 100 (err boring 60), we can choose to evolve into 2-3 paths and get either 1 huge-mega-solo-world-killer-in-one-shot, or evolved skills, more than one, to feel we progress versus the 3000 paragons (keep D3 as D3, this is D4)

– Or open God allegiances, where they give us boons (no debuffs and nerfs!) or super-skill..

We need new Uniques (I mean, real-working, not those that will stay in our limited stash.. (oh! more stash?) and stop taking the SHAKO spot for uniques! Make freakiing Rings.. or a new BELT!!

New Class: HEALER! Can kill Undeads with Heals, help other members with heals and buffs (even if I play solo) can use maces/scepters to break demon skulls.. imagine casting a bg AoE Holy Cross on the ground, healing members while wiping undeads..

I would so love that you finally delivers.. I’ve been keeping hope since season 0.. and now you got me at S9 with the Horadric Cube?

I was about to skip S8..

You want money, right? Make The old and new bundles, to be able to purchase items separately. 2500 for 5 items = if we buy one for 500, you still made money, wake up please!

We could mix and match cosmetics to our liking, and stop making non-vfx items for sale, it’s lame. Lots in your team likes glitter, right? (but no more flowers..)

LOOT FILTER, less trash items that disturb our killing spree.

That would be a good start.

Keep it up!

Ok 16:39, you are recorded. More choices lolol we all end up with 1 Meta build per class, and sometimes a class don’t even make it. Better up your game.

Please for the love of God, tell Blizzard to pick a group and cater to them. Either the blasters or the casuals. Stop trying to serve both masters. Diablo 4 is not currently in a place where that is possible and I think that polishing things is being left behind trying to make everyone happy.

Been following the arpg scene for quite a while now and I can say most the negitive comments come from the poe scum community, who are all pissy because Diablo is a live service game now. Im glad Blizz has things dialed in and feels they dont have to listen to ALL the comments that could steer them in the wrong directions. Never have i seen a more toxic community than the poe community, maybe ggg needs to sit their community down and tell them smarten up.

Holy shit it’s not a even a meme anymore they’re just doing borrowed powers of horadric…witches…demons…chaos…undead…darkness passive procs you just slap onto your gear. They’re so f’n inept i swear.

Game is dead. They are basically running a cosmetics shop for the whales for the profits.

This speaks a lot to how Diablo 4 was developed. They had no idea where they wanted to go with D4 they just wanted us to buy the game then they’d figure it out.

I bought Diablo 4 in early march/25. In less than a month, i’m paragon 250 and i hit kill all the bosses, its too easy, there’s not a barrier or else, it’s simple and after you have all the stuff you need, nothing to do after, you repeat the sames actvities, nothing challeging at all (In less than a month of play, without any support from other players).

I’m surprised how negative the comments are. I like when they add things that make me change the way I see characters and specs, these powers generally do that for me. I’ll definitely continue to play every season for a few weeks.

Sorry I can’t play this game anymore it’s just a mess maybe I’m burnt out. Still love watching your videos and content keep up the great work. ❤

Keyboard and mouse on console is wild, and Im for it. Hopefully they put glyph xp back in nmd’s!

This Q&A was ready for this guy? He read all the A; on his screen! Lol.😮

so 0 new features in a whole year.. stupid lame borrowed powers and reworks of old systems.. that really does nothing for the game.. rip diablo btw 2 years until leaderboards LOL!

this is just stupid and boring. this game is DEAD

Eeeek. Doesn’t look enticing to try again until Sep-Dec at earliest, or 2026 after the next expansion. Gave a it chance this season and with the next expansion. Much better than on release, but gets super boring super fast. Would rather play D2R any day and honestly feel like D3 is still better overall…. Really wish they added controller support to D3 on PC.

Marshall.

NO MEPHISTO ? BAAL ? DIABLO ? What is this road map to self destruction ? Already by reading what this roadmap stands for is enough to say NO TO DIABLO! R.I.P!

Catering to the streamers.. not the everyman playing the game

I feel like generally no Diablo player is excited about this roadmap… I kinda wish we still got balance changes for D3 I’d would much rather play that.

So bored with seasons. I’d love to just play my eternal characters with new stuff added periodically

Jesus christ enough with the powers! 🙄 I just wanna play a well updated and balanced character and not have these powers slapped on them every season. These games are already a challenge to balance and there just making it even more so. End game should be what there spending 90% of there effort on. Your character is basically done so quickly, i want stuff to work towards. The powers mean nothing if im not using them to get to some rewarding goal.

More borrowed powers… yay fun….

You missed asking about the Cow level.

I’m enjoying the content we’re getting. Knocking out a season journey in a couple of weeks is fine with me. If there’s more to do, great, but as the years go by, I’m less and less interested in games that want to become a way of life.

Doesn’t mean I don’t want aspirational content or something to be there for those who do want to put in 6 hours a day, 7 days a week, but my wife and I will keep coming back, and hopefully the seasons and mechanics will continue to iterate and improve.

STOP WITH THE BORROWED POWERS AND BE CREATIVE FOR A CHANGE. Newsflash, not a single Diablo player enjoys borrowed powers.

I have played the hell out of this game every season. Season 8 is the first time I think I might skip. The idea of “harder” content is not for me. I don’t want one shot mechanics or have to “learn” the fight. This isn’t WoW. I want to log on, crush hordes and hordes of demos, collect my loot and then do it again, or log off. I don’t want to have to waste my time on a boss.

Season journeys.. this was a way to feel good when ending the season. If it forces either hard content or group play I will probably just not play. Sure the game is online. Sure, you can play with friends. That’s great. But I play this solo and MANY, dare I say, MOST, players play solo. THAT is where the game should be focused on. Not the minority that groups up.

Alts… account bound glyphs!! I should be able to fully level up my alt’s glyphs on my main so that my alts are ready to crush. I don’t want to have to start over AGAIN in a season.

Console/pc should have own leaderboard since console has lower frames,higher latency and slower reaction time. Other than that I enjoy playing with pc crowd.

WHAT HAPPENED TO “Joe Shely” and his “army of developers???” Does any1 know? I don’t see him anymore….

Role play you mean we going to try and milk you for more money even though cosmetics are useless in arpgs cause you barely see your character

Glad Rhykker asked the question about the skins and that staying on the darker side. It would have felt weird to see a DBZ character or something along those lines out when I was playing.b

this doesn’t seem enough it lacks content for sure

Brent shows his face! Thank you for this!

Bro has a classy office.
Witcher 4 collab?

I can already “see” it…saving the most wanted features for FUTURE Expansions and give the new character 10000000x the power by “accident.” Yaowza!! “We don’t want to take the player’s power fantasy away” at least for SIX MONTHS to sell the expansion. CA$HING out your reputation!! Yes!

If only you were allowed to choose what you “should be going after” while making the base game. Can’t polish a turd. Losers. Enjoy your souless profits.

Paliden or bust

The one map game.

IP – “new shop skins” , lol.

I don’t know if we’re getting a paladin, but i think it will definitely be a light class.

They can show us a roadmap because it’s the same season over and over with a new skin on top. This is so damn boring at this point.

Diablo 5 better be an MMO, because this one failed hard🥲

Diablo 4 is a Hollowed Out Game.

Paywall Cosmetics that should be free.

Map that is flat and lifeless.

Few real world events for a MMO Map.

Narrow Build Paths With Artificial Depth.

you polish a turd… it’s still a turd.

Paladin!

I would love to see those people saying that are done with the game until Blizzard figures out what to do with it to actually make suggestions about what they want to see instead of just saying they are gone until they figure out. Its kind of pointless to be disgruntled at this point. Just say what would keep you playing the game and what you have fun with.

Hmm. I’m so-so. I have no interest whatsoever in cosmetics, so none of that IP collab stuff meant anything to me. It’s good that they have a plan, but they wouldn’t really tell us much actual news yet.

Whoever put this guy in his position made a HUGE mistake. This was a good chance to win back some favor with the community, what a waste.

I don’t think I like seasons anymore. I wish they just focused on eternal and make an attempt at a proper, lasting endgame.

IP WITH DARK SOULS FROM SOFTWARE PLEASE

Its crazy that they still think this temp powers bullshit works . Its almost what killed wow for alot of ppl😂😂😂 they never learn

not the best take

Enough with the stolen power seasons already it’s a been year of the same regurgitated season mechanic… ENOUGH

D4’s future is D3.

Diablo 4 is getting good.

Keep up the good work

They really need to figure out how to add meaningful content each season. Recycling the power mechanics is not enough to bring me back every season. I understood for the first few seasons when they were working on fixing the core game, but at this point there is no excuse except laziness and/or lack of vision.

“There is no endgame” Quoth crybabies in the comments. Read: Season 8 “New lair Bosses”, Season 9 “Dungeon Escalation” “New Nightmare Dungeon Activities” “And More (possibly meta system)”, Season 10 “Inferno Hordes Update”, Season 11 “Leaderboards”. Pay attention to the Roadmap you crybabies.

Collab is Magic: the Gathering x Diablo, Secret Lair. Calling it now.

Horrible. No hard questions asked. 2 years of borrowed power recycled garbage.

2 new bosses, nightmare dungeon activities and a infernal hordes update all in the span of 9 WHOLE months. Good job Blizzard, you’ve officially lost the plot. Oh and leaderboards 2 years too late.

All season themes are powers now? What about companions? Item upgrades? Socketables? Temporary item slot?

I can’t believe Last Epoch has surpassed Diablo 4….

Last Epoch all the way until PoE 2 full release.

All the comments here are the same. And you’re right. I’ll tell you what. They want real content to come with expansions so we pay money. That’s all

this roadmap looks hella boring

I just wish they would test out new opportunities with the skill tree, the paragon board, or other mechanics. It’s always a separate borrowed power tab, always with the same level up system. It can be fun, but it’s been stale since before boss powers.

PoE 2 is really fun I recommend old school Diablo players check it out. If your the work all the time type? Diablo 4 has that speed progression itch some modern gamers enjoy.

D4 got so bad it made me lose interest to play it even for the lore.

Just don’t care anymore, just sadness.

They honestly need to start adding new classes or something borrowed powers every season is boring as hell.

So…We’re getting another expansion in 2026, maybe?
That’s the main thing I want. I’m burnt out on seasonal play. It’s not fun for me. It feels rushed even though there’s plenty of time.

Deads dont speak 😞🛌

I’m strongly against IP collabs. If Diablo is going to stay Diablo we can’t have a bunch of DEI and concord like stuff thrown into the game. The last thing people want is a bunch of pink and rainbow colored cosmetics.

Interesting how he wants to stick to the brand as far as cosmetics go. Unlike Call of Duty. Which is also Activision. I can”t trust anyone.

Let me be the positive person in this comment section. I love D4, and it’s doing exactly what I always wanted for D3. Constant updates and new content, which gives me a good excuse to try lots of different builds every few months. I hope they continue to take some of the fan favorite powers and turn them into interesting uniques or mythics. Im also really happy to see these boss fights getting a good tuning because honestly, they are fun when they are challenging (except Lilith, she sucks) . The biggest thing I want them to add is ultra rewarding end-game content for the most stocked builds.

Im not going to lie but has anyone at blizzard got any creativity ? borrowed powers are fine now and then but if this is going to be what drives the game going forwards im slowly losing interest. As a Loyal player of diablo since d3 it really pains me to see how blizzards creative pendulum is swinging from great to just down right boring and uninteresting. With Last Epoch about to unveil a huge update and other games on the scene actively building up their end game D4 is about to start being left in the dust. Blizzard needs to pull their fingers out of their arses and start thinking about end game content and not how to we borrow even more powers. Really disappointed.

I just hope the new class won’t be a huntress.

I started playing in the beta. I have played every Diablo. I’m done. What did me in? I hate the Lilith and Andarial fights. The boss is immune while at the same time being able to one shot me. I have to run around in a pattern like frogger just so I can get to the point to kill the boss, nevermind I could have actually one shot the boss but noooooooooooooo, we want to delay that because thats what this game has become. This is their plan for every boss? Only way I come back is if they revert the new boss mechanics out of S8. Ok, I will play the lore quests each season, but not playing any further than the quest chains. I have bought an accelerated battlepass every season. I’m not buying one this season. I don’t want to play a game with crappy PoE-like boss mechanics. If I want to play frogger or centipede, I will play those games. Its going to suck for streamers like you as well, because, no one will watch your streams about a game no one wants to play. Surprisingly, I haven’t really delved back into D2R like I thought I would. I’m playing GTA Online again.

I’ve never looked at the diablo 4 shop nor have I played since season 1

This is where all the poe2 fanboys come cry after their season sh*t the bed 😂 dawn of the holy cr*p this suuuuucks!

Temp powers
Different coloured helltide
fixing old content
every season
uninstall

Just add a dungeon/mapping system. It’s what people want, stop beating around the bush

Have the season quests actually be meaningful. I want to feel like if I don’t play the season I’ll miss out on the game play and story experience. Now it just feels like tedious busy work

The powers need to stack/return, we should grow further in power to take un new challenges. This reset to square one random new powers and then reset again with nothing to really reach towards

No endgame-* (new lair bosses) and nothing new contributing to the story? That’s unfortunate.

It seems that most games have taken a Fortnite-like approach of adding in new “seasonal” content and collaborating with other games/Intellectual properties. Diablo is renowned for its own unique characteristics (gritty, dark ‘fantasy’ with slight ‘realism’ in a grim fated setting). Although we haven’t had that tone in the game since Diablo 2. But I’m sure this will allow them to put even more items in the store, increasing the likelihood of players purchasing the offered items due to them being from one of their favorite IPs, or due to the fear of missing out. Simultaneously, this can attract new players who will also buy up these items.

I started playing in season three, at the tail end into season four. (It feels weird to say that because it makes it sound like I’ve been playing for a long time while I essentially started playing maybe August of 2024). Around season 5/6, I played with my gf into the VOH update. We both stopped after that due to the poor story and the clear favoritism shown to the new class at that time (spiritborn).

I, my gf, and hopefully many others are tired of these clear-cut predatory sales tactics that video game companies and studios, developers, investors/shareholders, or whomever is to blame continue to use on their respective or interwoven playerbase(s). The psychological manipulation, lies and trickery are out of hand. I’m aware my own comment almost sounds ludicrous because it is FAR too serious to be about a video game.

I am DEAD tired of seasons being introduced into video games in order for them to shore-up new sales with cosmetic items or paywalled quests/designs/etc. I know Fortnite did not introduce this concept, but they surely capitalized on it and since 2017, it has affected nearly every new game, be it from a long-standing IP or a completely new one.

I will admit that I am out of touch with actually engaging in the content, but I will not be a statistic to add to the count of daily user logins and user hours played for the next shareholder meeting/studio hotwash.

The fact that the expansion will take an entire YEAR to drop while all these new ‘features’ will be added is just a slap in the face. At least if there wasn’t going to be an endgame I’d like the narrative explored. But of course not, just more time-sinks to obtain items and gear just to wash it away and do it again in a few weeks/months. And ofc, more micro-transactions. Can’t wait for a $200 mount. I’ve known blizzard to be awful for the last decade and a half now, but this is ridiculous. The players need to speak by not playing and maybe having a channel/youtuber/liason that actually isn’t flown out to creator events so they can bring complaints to these studios. Nothing against you Rhy, if you see this. And I mean nothing against other players either. Including those who currently are enjoying this game and the overall games currently available in the gaming industry. But this is getting ridiculous.

If you can, dust off your old 360, PS3, or maybe even PS2/XBOX/Wii and just longplay an entire game or a few. It’s like night and day. The current shape/heading and direction of the industry is abhorrent.

Oof

Wow, that was quite boring

Roadmap looks boring but I’ll play for a month and then move on. Idk what people expect from games like this, They’re never going to release enough content to keep you engaged for the whole entire season. Adding a Pit Leaderboard would make this game a lot more fun so I hope they do that.

I didnt see a Lootfilter nor reduced Itemdrops. So maybe next year.

This is great! Of course I want more packed into a season, Im a blaster! However I do know the next big jump for D4 is gonna be the expansion.

Endgame??

I wish the seasons were shorter because I finish them too fast

will they make the campaign fun to play?
like in d2?

Bloody awesome ! Worth the wait for the map !

Can’t anyone articulate what they want in the game instead of complaining about what they don’t want in it?

I wanted to complete the season, but it’s just too complex for me with all those things involved. D3 was waaaaay simpler. No birdie for me, unfortunately xD

we are sick of powers……jesus what a load of nothing thank god PoE and LE exist

I’d like to know more about these IP collabs !

Looks like nobody is happy 😂

This is going to sound very very negative, but this comes from a person who loves this franchise and has played since D1….. this doesn’t look good. They are basically making D4 more like Diablo Immortal. The major updates are all about them making money rather than actual gameplay. Seasons continue to look like lazy reskins for the next year. IP collabs is terrible…It would be hard to be more tone deaf to the audience than D4 is right now. I can’t believe I am saying this, but I might have to finally give up on one of my most loved franchises. I can only be disappointed so many times, and the next year looks to be full of it, and cash grabs.

Dungeon escalation sounds like a potential interesting system, so kinda posting some of my hopes on that one tbh

When all known thematic powers will end, next is a season of ducks and thier powers. A zero creativity, “Blizzard”.

Horadric and Chaos powers ? Sweet !
2025 seems to be a great year for D4 ! 😀
+💯 For roadmap transparency

We need heavy metal people working on this game… these new school California nerds have destroyed Diablo.

Why even show us this lol. This is awful

These powers might seem boring at first but I think that its good for the game to establish itself as an “easy” aRPG with option to be difficult if u want to. Devs definetely have a vision for the game and are focusing on the new xpansion which might be succesfull. I personally dont mind the powers since there will be more in each season now that they dont need to rework the whole game

What about the cow level? Or being able to enter a loot goblin portal? Or how about supporting the eternal realm? Or introducing new item rarities that are stronger than mythic uniques? Or a end game activity that isn’t running the pit or farming ladder bosses?

shit game

I’ll go back to D4 when I can Zeal with my pal

I quit D4 before 1st expansion, It was good decision for me. This is really a dissapointment, again and again….My favourite brand is still doomed and staying in irl hell. Sad. Just money grab, no innovation, no clue where to go, except your wallet.

We need a Monolith and Atlas!!! Please blizzard!!!

4:30 My little Pony?

Diablo franchise is getting raped by incompetent developers and greedy businessmen right in front of our eyes.

Well, roadmap is good if they want to get a feedback. Aaand… People are fed up with borrowed powers.

I mean its what I expected, but not what I hoped for
When I heard Diablo was going to introduce some MMORPG things, I really grabbed onto the RPG side of that I would love an RPG set in the Diablo world, not yet another Blizzard loot treadmill. But it is what it is.

We need a trading house please

Seems the rumors that the entire D4 team was scrapped are true and its down to the D3 skeleton crew to just run different seasons and create 1 feature every 2 years for $60.

Dood every f*cking season is the same…it’s ludicrous they are adding major minor content only the expansion!!! please do away with seasons, they are useless!!!!!!!!!

Okay, listen … I’ve sort of been a defender of D4 since beta and even I am really disappointed at this ‘roadmap’.
Borrowed powers every single season is just boring and uninspired.
What Diablo 4 needs is an endgame with a start and an end (sort of), comparable to PoE 1’s atlas system. Make us fight ACTUALLY hard bosses in-between, none of that lame boss mat farming and then you can fight the super evil demon in Torment 1 and just one-shot him. That feels terrible that that’s even possible.
Things like that should be their #1 priority.

They need to STOP with the season borrpwed power BS (look what that did to wow) and start developing evergreen content that actually builds up the game and the content therein. Make separate “seasonal” ladders on that *evergreen* content.

Brent Gibson is the reason why Vessel of Hatred sucked. I’m losing my hopes for the next expansion…

Expansion every 2-3 years….what trash…..mtx and lame seasons ruined this franchise