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Welcome to the start of our Diablo 4 Season 4 coverage!
Kickstarting with Part 1 of an exclusive interview with Diablo Franchise General Manager, Rod Fergusson.
Xbox is now the biggest platform for daily active users in Diablo
It’s been a rollercoaster few years for Diablo fans.
But it worked, leading to record-breaking sales upon its June 2024 release.
“Yeah, it’s fantastic.
Could the rumor of a Diablo adaptation ever come to fruition?
I play co-op games with my brother.
And I was always like,“Oh, I have this game.
You should go buy it.
Diablo 4 Season of the Construct has a trap theme that wasn’t popular at launch but was quickly improved
“And he’d say,“Well, I don’t know if I like it.
Why would I buy it?
“But now we both have the same game because we both have Game Pass.
Loot will be simplified in Season 4
We can play together which is great.
So we love that with Diablo.
Being a creator, you want your creation to be played or experienced by as many people as possible.
Stashes like this will be a thing of the past
It feels great.”
Being a creator, you want your creation to be played or experienced by as many people as possible.
How do we broaden the audience?
Even the latest season of Halo appears to have had better reception than it’s first.
Perhaps it was true and scrapped, perhaps it’s still ongoing.
“Yeah I definitely think it could work.
I think that’s something that could translate very well to something like that.
You know, I wish I had something I could talk to you about today.
But in terms of just the general idea, do I think it could work?
I definitely do.Edgerunnerswas actually one of the ones that got me, theCyberpunk[2077] anime.
That one got me going back to Cyberpunk for sure.
There’s been a lot of great shows recently.”
Itemization and endgame changes are so far-reaching through the game that we’re effectively getting a Diablo 4 2.0.
“The biggest one, obviously, is the itemization, or what we call itemization.
“Diablo is all about living in a power fantasy.
Is that the one I’m looking for with the perfect amount of cooldown reduction?
“Or movement speed?
Or whatever it is you’re looking for.”
And so that’s what you see with Season 4.
Instead of having all these affixes falling on weapons, we actually go down to a core set.
So it’s much easier to compare apples to apples.
you might read more about both these systems in the latest Campfire Chat summary.
And so that makes it more personal to you.
And I can add a movement speed.
And now I can really lean into my power fantasy of being fast.
“And so giving the ownership of the fantasy more to the players I think is exciting.
So we’re gonna readjust it for Season 4.”
Diablo players are hoarders, and I count myself amongst the afflicted.
“What used to happen, you would basically change gear 3 times, right?
So now it’s in your book.
And now you have+2 Skeletal Magesforever.
Like the [legendary aspects] you would get that you find in the dungeons.
