Catch Up on the Season of the Malignant Campfire Chat - Official Blog Post
After today's Patch 1.1.0 Campfire Chat, Blizzard has released the following blog post, going over the main topics of the Developer Livestream. Patch 1.1.0 Campfire Chat Summary Diablo 4 Patch 1.1.0 Campfire Chat
On July 18, we released Patch 1.1.0 for Diablo IV. Since then, we’ve received valuable feedback from the community regarding the changes it implemented.We took the opportunity to address that feedback directly during our Season of the Malignant Campfire Chat on July 21.Game director Joe Shely, associate game director Joseph Piepiora, and associate director of community Adam Fletcher detailed why the changes in Patch 1.1.0 were made, what we were aiming to achieve with those changes, and the steps we’re taking to ensure we will never implement a patch like that again in the future. If you’d like to watch the full livestream, see the below video on demand.If you’d prefer to skim the highlights of our Campfire Chat, they can be found below.Diablo IV’s Live Service Mission Statements: Keep the game fun for players. Have a wide variety of viable builds to discover, put together, and optimize, across all five classes.
Introduce new items and powers every season to keep the game fresh and increase build variety. Continue to evolve the endgame, with high monster density for powerful builds to mow down and activities to challenge your build. When making changes to increase build diversity, we will let some builds be overpowered until we have provided compelling alternatives.
Introduce meta changes will occur at predictable times, like the start of a Season. React quickly to squash game-breaking bugs, damage or crashes. Why we released Patch 1.1.0 and what we are trying to achieve: Diablo IV was always meant to.
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