Blizzard Entertainment's biggest release for this year, Diablo 4, is already making waves and it's barely launched yet. But, as a live-service title, most fans are wondering if Diablo 4 will forgo the usual expansion route. And, while it would've been the standard route, Blizzard wants everyone to know that it has forgotten the series' roots yet.
Diablo's general manager, Rod Fergusson, recently sat down with Kinda Funny Games and shared what the Diablo 4 team's been up to in the days leading up to the game's launch.
According to Fergusson, the guys behind the scenes are already "finishing up season one" and "working on season two." But, more importantly, Fergusson confirmed that work on "expansion one" and "expansion two" have already started.
It's clear that Blizzard wants to buck the trend for how companies can handle post-release content for live-service titles with a simultaneous development approach to expansions and seasons.
The live-service format is a relatively new take for a mainline Diablo entry. This strategy allows the company to introduce a substantial amount of content split into seasons, which is a marked shift from how Blizzard handled Diablo 3. On top of the introduction of new mechanics and balancing them, Diablo 4's expansions will also incorporate rich narrative questlines to provide more context around the seasons.
