Mario creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, once said, "a delayed game is eventually good, but a bad game is bad forever." Regardless of whether he really said this or not, what happened to the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 should forever scare developers from releasing an incomplete game or rushing one out of the gates.
But, it appears Blizzard Entertainment hasn't learned its lesson yet.
According to a report by The Washington Post, the Diablo 4 team is currently being forced to "crunch" with insufficient compensation just so the studio can meet the rumored June 5 release date of Diablo 4. The report details that employees aren't explicitly required to work overtime, but they are incentivized to do so. The said incentives include everything from Door Dash credits to company shares once Diablo 4 is out. However, the report adds that this hasn't been enough to prevent tenured employees from resigning.
The report reveals that a 20-person team lost half of its members in a year and that some employees were told to look for another company after asking for a raise. Furthermore, the report details that Blizzard later replaced the experienced employees with entry-level hires. As a result, there's a lot of doubt about whether Diablo 4 will not be delayed again.