Season 1 for Diablo IV is live today, and the Diablo team has scheduled the first dev chat of the season. The team will be discussing the heavily negative feedback to this week’s patch and what to expect going forward.
The Season of the Malignant Campfire Chat will give the team a chance to respond to the community’s criticism and feedback that came in the light of the release of Patch 1.1.0. The update came with a lot of balance changes, including a huge number of nerfs and a number of other changes that many were unhappy about. That's putting it mildly, since the response has been loud and very much negative over the changes, which reduced power, slowed progression, and otherwise didn't quite generate the feeling you want before a new season begins.
Of course, development teams make balance changes and all kinds of decisions constantly, but some of the particular nerfs, coming before the beginning of the first season, hit harder than most people would have expected. If you were a Sorcerer player, you may be particularly mad even more nerfs, but you wouldn't be alone.
The stream will take place tomorrow, July 21st, at 11:00 AM PDT / 2 PM EDT and will feature Diablo IV game director Joseph Shely, associate game director Joseph Piepora, and associate director of community, Adam Fletcher. The announcement of the stream says they will directly address all the feedback they've been receiving since the patch was released, and also give some details on what is coming, and what to expect now that we're in a whole new chapter.
You can tune in on the Diablo Twitch or YouTube channels to watch the Stream live, and see what the devs have to say in response to all the recent feedback.
In addition to legitimate feedback and sometimes simple dissatisfaction, there are also those that have been review bombing the user score over on Metacritic.
In light of all of this, that the team will be quick to address all the feedback and what's coming next, is a step in the right direction, and what they say will be the most important.
