From 2 days ago:
Lastly, I wanted to clear up on the S2 timing as there is a bunch of confusion on this and honestly it is 100% understandable why there is confusion. Before S1 began, we had noted that we were aiming to have seasons last 4 months. We are obviously past that timeline and to be 100% honest, we kind of didn’t plan very well on our end for that date. Terror Zones was a cool feature we wanted to nail correctly as it teetered back and forth on the line of “Should we do this or not?” many times throughout development and with that it caused a little bit of a delay on the Season transition. I just wanted to state that and apologize for that murkiness around when that season transition would occur. We are looking at mitigating this issue for future seasons in D2R.
The current order of operation is that we will end PTR here soon and start submission for final builds on 2.5 and get out that to everyone on the live environment. Season 1 to Season 2 will happen fairly immediately. We expect S2 to start a week or two after 2.5 hits so we have a date that everyone is aligned on and knows about. S1 will literally end the second we transition to S2.
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As more dates become aligned here in the coming week, we will provide updates to give a better window on 2.5 and S2 for the community.
They should’ve posted this in the General Discussion section rather than having it tucked away in the PTR Feedback section.
They never promised 4 month ladders, all they said is that they were interested in trying it.
As for the topic, I’m guessing late September at the earliest. I think they’ll close the PTR tomorrow and take next week to finalize any changes, then 2.5 releases September 20 and the ladder resets September 30.
That’s actually looking like a pretty tight timeline now though so it could be pushed into October, though I don’t think the reset will go past mid October at the latest.