The team mentioned plans for longterm betas for Diablo 4. I think you will see us take a different approach here.” “We were pretty protective of our not showing too much of our content and we had a limited beta during Diablo 3,” said Barriga. One of the ways Blizzard plans to combat day-one server instability is through longer beta programs. Many players - ourselves included - sat all night trying to play, only to face down a devilish red box by the name of Error 37.īarriga said that avoiding these kinds of server issues at launch is almost as important as not recreating the auction house. Players who tried to play Diablo 3 on launch day still remember the the server issues. That seemingly won’t be the case with Diablo 4.īlizzard’s complicated history with China looms over BlizzCon 2019 Error 37 - server issues Instead of earning loot from monsters, players best avenue for loot was from other players. The auction house created a Diablo that was worth farming for gold, rather than gear. When Blizzard launched Diablo 3, it featured a real-money auction house, a store where players could buy and sell gear for in-game gold or a real-money equivalence. “So we’ve got some pretty solid ideas on how to make trade viable without letting it disrupt the game.”ĭuring our interview, Blizzard mentioned players trading with one another in town for a powerful item, or loot distribution from a guild leader in Diablo 4. “There are a lot of great elements to trade if it’s done in a contained way,” said Adham. But Adham said that Blizzard still wanted to enable trading between players in Diablo 4. The team agreed that it wasn’t a feature they’d go back to. When we asked which mistakes the team worked to avoid, Adham was quick to bring up the real-money auction house.
But before the Reaper of Souls expansion, Diablo 3 wasn’t the lovable, wildly replayable game it is now.Īt BlizzCon 2019, we sat down and spoke to executive producer Allen Adham, art director John Mueller, and game director Luis Barriga about avoiding the franchise’s past mistakes. Blizzard announced Diablo 4 at BlizzCon 2019, but people are still loving and playing Diablo 3 in 2019, almost eight years since Blizzard released it.
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