Diablo 4 Review-Bombing Is in Full Effect but Season 1 Still Sparks Long Queue Times
This week’s controversial Diablo 4 patch sparked a new wave of review bombing from disgruntled players, but the start of Season 1 still resulted in a long wait.
Diablo 4’s long-awaited pre-season 1 patch 1.1.0 has led to heavy complaints from the game’s community, with Blizzard turning this action role-playing game into a “throg” with a ton of hard-line nerfs for everyone. condemned. Classes, gaining experience points, endgame progression, and more.
Blizzard said in a livestream on July 21 that it would address the controversy, but that didn’t stop the attacks on social media, the game’s forums, subreddits, and, importantly, fans outraged by the changes. . metacritic page.
Diablo 4’s user score plummeted to 2.4, with a majority of recent reviews complaining about the changes the patch made to the game.
Despite the complaints expressed online and claims by some players to stop playing altogether, many players are still waiting for the start of Season 1 on July 20, as the long wait indicates. It appeared to be participating, and the startup message was showing a warning to logged-in users.
I am experiencing unusually long queue times #Diablo IV. We appreciate your patience as we are working on this and getting everyone into Sanctuary.
— Blizzard CS EU (@BlizzardCSEU_EN) July 20, 2023
Some players reported increased latency while playing always-online games.
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—Tylko DELEGALIZACJA PiS!=skuteczne rozliczenie (@Darek_Michniak) July 20, 2023
Many Diablo 4 players are now hopeful that Blizzard will respond to the backlash and roll back the changes. Game Director Joe Shely, Associate Game Director Joseph Piepiora, and Community Associate Director Adam Fletcher will be hosting his Livestream at Campfire Chat on July 21st at 11am PT.
Meanwhile, Blizzard has moved quickly to revert one of its unannounced Diablo 4 patch changes ahead of the start of Season 1. An undocumented tweak added level requirements for World Tiers 3 and 4. After the patch, players realized they had to be level 40 to unlock the World Tier. 3, You can unlock World Tier 4 at level 60.
This change increased the difficulty of progressing through Diablo 4’s various difficulty tiers, further fueling the uproar surrounding the hard-line nerf of the patch that turned the game into a “slog.”
In response, a new patch was released yesterday that brings Diablo 4 up to version 1.1.0b, removing this requirement entirely.
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