The livestream will also introduce a new class for Blizzard’s “late April Fool’s joke,” Diablo Immortal, along with more quality-of-life-updates for Diablo IV, which players say could definitely use more of (e.g., a dedicated gem tab). According to Rod Fergusson, general manager of the Diablo franchise who some say is “incredibly out of touch” for various reasons, players will need to create a fresh character for each and every season, although that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has an inkling of experience with the last Diablo game. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Blizzard has confirmed that it will be announcing Diablo IV’s first season during its next developer update livestream, which is scheduled to premiere on July 6 at 11 a.m. Even if this wasn’t necessarily that harmful to the season, I suppose it serves as an object lesson not to use future, potentially worse exploits, lest you risk a ban.įollow me on Twitter, Threads, YouTube, and Instagram. I am sure this will not be the last exploit that the game has, or the last time people will be banned for using one. “Actioned” is banned, though there’s no word on the grand total of accounts that might have been banned for this. We appreciate everyone for bringing this to our attention.” We have also actioned on select accounts related to this incident.

“I just wanted to let everyone know that this was addressed a few days ago in our last hotfix and hasn’t been present in the game since. But here’s what Blizzard’s community manager said about it in the forums: Again, not against banning people for exploits, I’m just not sure I understand why this one mattered that much, especially with it getting patched so quickly.

There are vague concerns about PvP balance due to the item or gold transfer abilities for better builds, but I’m still not quite sure I get why this was a huge deal.

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