Hope you've got a Plan B for when drop 90%.' Another disgruntled Twitter user, Avalanchian71, said, ' I'll be honest. Twitter user miketheitguy noted that ' There is no way this is going to fly with most of the player base.

The announcement of the need for players to create a new character to experience the seasonal quest lines, features, and mechanics has received a mixed reception from Diablo 4 players, with many voicing their frustration on Twitter in reply to Fergusson's confirmation. Although the ability to skip the story mode will likely expedite the leveling process, as players will be able to access high XP reward activities such as side quests and dungeons faster, it will still necessitate hours of grind to get seasonal characters to the same level. In response, Rod stated that players can skip the campaign once the season starts and confirmed that the campaign only needs to ever be completed once. In a later tweet in the thread, Fergusson was asked whether a new player should essentially just wait for the seasonal content, as to avoid having to begin afresh upon the release of the upcoming seasonal material. Blizzard's reasoning for the requirement of players to create seasonal characters to participate in each of the battle passes appears to be that it helps balance the game and that it also directs players to reexperience the rewarding sensation of building up a new character.īlizzard has confirmed that in order to experience the upcoming seasonal content in Diablo 4 Season 1, players will need to create a new character for every season however, they have also announced that some of the more tedious aspects of the game such as the Altars of Lilith and map discovery will carry over from the Eternal Realm to each season journey therefore, players will not need to rediscover the 160 Altars of Lilith, or reexplore the entire map. The exclusion of preseason characters from seasonal content has come as an unpleasant surprise for many of those experiencing the action roll playing game franchise for the first time however, this is the same seasonal model applied in the series' previous release, Diablo 3, and many Diablo veterans were expecting it to make a return.

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