Those already looking ahead to what Diablo 4 can offer after you’ve beaten the game, and what comes after, Blizzard discussed the Diablo 4 post-launch content plans today in a new dev stream.
Diablo General Manager Rod Fergusson along with associate game director Joseph Piepiora, product management director Kegan Clark, and associate director of community Adam Fletcher talked about Diablo 4’s Battle Pass, The Shop, and more.
Diablo 4 Post-Launch Content Plans:
- Post-launch content covers the player experience throughout new seasons, the Season Journey, Battle Pass rewards, new features, long-term maintenance, balancing the game, and updates.
- Seasons in Diablo IV will arrive in the weeks following launch, starting with Season 1. Each season will include a new gameplay feature and questline that introduces new characters, challenges, legendary aspects, meta changes, and quality of life improvements.
- Each season is supported by its own Season Journey. As players progress through the Season Journey, players can earn rewards and gain progress toward the Battle Pass, however, you cannot accelerate the Season Journey.
- The Battle Pass is a way to earn rewards and contains both Free Tier and Premium Tier that can be unlocked by progressing in the game.
- Free Tiers provide gameplay boosts unlocked by simply playing the game, allowing seasonal characters to level faster.
- Premium Tiers are unlocked by purchasing the Premium Pass. With the Premium Pass, playing through the game will allow players to unlock Premium Currency for the Shop used to purchase seasonally themed cosmetics. Players will not be able to buy power with the Premium Tiers.
- Building on top of the hundreds of armor and weapon styles players can unlock in the game, the Shop serves to offer players even more diverse cosmetic options. Nothing offered in the Shop grants a direct or indirect gameplay advantage, only cosmetics that will be on rotation periodically.
You can watch the dev stream below in its entirety:
We’re expecting a proper roadmap to be revealed at some point once the game’s out. Of course, if you’re a franchise fan, post-launch support is something you’re not worried about, as Blizzard is known to support the Diablo games for an insanely long time.
While waiting for the game’s June 6 launch, don’t forget that there’s “server slam” beta set to be unleashed this weekend! Read up on the details for that here.