Diablo 4 - What do you want to hear about?

[Eigen9-1345]

@Pe3eWe3e-21492

If seasons are the only “new” content then game will die quicky.

Fresh start without any real new content is not good enough.

If D4 goes the season route I’d like to see them develop a nice cadence, for example:

• Season 1 - Balancing and new items added to the game patch. Max keyed dungeon level increased by x and new keyed dungeons affixes added to the game.
• Season 2 - New story addon. A story addon is a really long quest that tells a story that leads to some new place in the game with a chance at awesome loot. If uniques/legendaries drop infrequently in D4, then these repeatable (semi-random) story quests in D4 that could drop 2-3 guaranteed uniques/legendaries at the end would be worth doing (balanced of course against other game system reward structures). I wrote about this in another thread below.

@Eigen9-1345

Diablo could have awesome, story add-ons introduced in seasons. Play through this season’s story. I wrote about this in another thread, so example stories.

• Assault on the cow-kingdom - a DnD style adventure to help the cow king recover his throne - similar in feel to the Tiny Tina assault on dragon’s keep story addon in Borderlands 2 (may be too whimsical for D4’s feel, but I’m just brainstorming).
• A crazy night with Shen - Players solve a murder mystery alongside Shen from D3. Shen points out different dungeons he remembers being in and you have to clear them to find clues that will help you piece the night together.
• A treasure hunt story - You are enlisted by one of the rogue factions to find keys at the end of several dungeons to unlock a secret vault in Caldeum. Takes a long time to recover the keys and the vault has several new guardians.
• The Return of the Countess - climb the countess’ tower to reveal her dark past (puzzle themed tower climb experience)

• Season 3 - Community Event. D4 team comes up with a race or some event in game that they track through leaderboards. The whole community participates in it - similar to PoE race leagues. They don’t have to be races though, they could be a special challenge mode of an endgame dungeon, but still something competitive. The community event could be a new PVP tournament.

• Season 4 - A new endgame mode is added to the game permanently. This would be the most content from any of the 4 seasons and include some new items to chase in this endgame mode (but these items shouldn’t obsolete all the normal items in the game).

Then, the next year they repeat this schedule with the same cadence, so players always know the first quarter of the year is balancing the game, second quarter is new story content, third quarter is a community event, and fourth quarter is a new endgame mode. The season challenge/journey system can be brought alongside each of these to give players a roadmap for seasonal content.