Well that didn't take long: Diablo 4 is coming to Steam
Boy, that sure didn't take long. Blizzard announced today that Diablo 4, the latest iteration of its demon-clobbering action-RPG, will be coming to Steam on October 17, and is available for wishlisting now.
Diablo 4 on Steam will support cross-platform play with other versions of the game—Battle.net, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5—and will offer unique Steam-specific features including Steam achievements and integration with the Steam friends list. It will also be playable on the Steam Deck.
The launch of Diablo 4 on Steam will coincide with the start of the Season of Blood, the game's second season and Blizzard's hoped-for bounceback from the mess of season one. The Season of the Malignant, as it's known, did not go over well with fans, thanks to a mix of nerfs, loot, and balance issues that were almost universally negatively received. The reaction was bad enough that Blizzard held an emergency livestream in which community manager Adam Fletcher acknowledged that the changes made by the pre-season patch were "not fun," adding, «We don't plan on doing a patch like this ever again.»
It was quite an admission about such a high-profile game, but it did little to mollify fans because even though Blizzard promised changes, nothing of significance was immediately reverted, and the most promising and meaningful changes were still far off. Blizzard was still undoing aspects of that pre-release as recently as a couple weeks ago, more than two months after that «we goofed» livestream.
That has the potential to make the Steam release of Diablo 4 very interesting, and not necessarily in a good way. When Overwatch 2 debuted on Steam in August, it was immediately buried in negative user reviews: In just
Read more on pcgamer.com
