Don’t worry, I’m confident we’ll get the 2nd quarterly update this month.
1 Like
We never got it for the first quarter, why would we for the second?
And where the PTR notes at? Some “soon™”
blizzconline was the first quarter for D4…
6 Likes
Did you miss Blizzconline in February? 
Diablo Deep Dive Panel Recap — Diablo III — Blizzard News
2 Likes
As mention above, BlizzConline was the first quarterly update for Diablo 4:
Speaking of which, our next update will take place during BlizzConline, rather than in blog form. We’ve read speculation about what it could be and want to ensure you that it is something chunky indeed. Without spoiling the surprise, Iet’s just say it involves a new version of the campfire scene we showed you last BlizzCon.
Quote taken from last year’s December’s Quarterly update:
As for the ptr patch notes, that can take anywhere from today, to the end of next week.
5 Likes
Do you think the prt patch notes will be up before the D4 Q2 blog?
- Patch notes on the 15th?
- D4 Q2 blog update on the 22nd or 29th?
No one ever really knows what “soon” means when it comes from Blizzard.
If we’re to go by previous quarterly updates (whereas most of them were released near the end of the quarter), then yes I’d expect for us to receive the ptr patch notes first before we get the quarterly update. As for when, well that’s anyone’s guess. However if we get both the ptr patch notes and the ptr itself within the same week, then the 15th seems likely for when we get the ptr patch notes. As Blizzard usually release the ptr itself on Thursdays.
So it’s possible that in the event that the ptr patch notes and the ptr itself are released on the same week then (and this is pure speculation on my part so take it with a grain a salt):
- Ptr patch notes are released on June 15th
- Ptr starts approx 2 days later on June 17th
- Diablo 4 2nd Quarterly update posted sometime between the 24th-29th (ignoring the weekends ofc)
- Ptr runs for approximately 2 weeks and thus ends on July 1st
About the world, about how far Blizzard is with developing d4 and some new ingame/gameplay scenes would be my favourites!
Of course, some news around the class-specialisation and the skilltree would be very interresting too for me.
But arround monster familys and their art progression it would be okay for me to hear nothing about it and find it out later, when i play it. 
okay, its interresting too, because i hope they make it rly dark and horror to scare us just by sawing it.
All news are good news, i hope so.
Greetingz
We are getting closer to it.
But its going to be a pointless post for a lot of people given it is about character history and lore.
Really really need game mechanics given PoE2, Lost Ark, Last Epoch and all other ARPG’s on the horizon.
When did they say that? They said “Characters and character art.”
PoE 2 and Last Epoch are contenders, Lost Ark is not an ARPG in the modern definition by any stretch. People who do not enjoy traditional MMOs and are also expecting a more multiplayer-enabling ARPG experience will HATE Lost Ark. Just want to put that out there. It’s still going to be free to try, so if you don’t mind potentially wasting a few hours of your limited lifespan, theres no reason to give it a try anyways, unless what I described is enough for you to know for sure.
The freezing issue is now over a year old. Could you confirm if you guys have any intention of ever fixing it or do you just expect players to put up with their heroes dying and/or playing with a completely silent client?
4 Likes
Yes, that would be great. They could however keep this stuff for Blizzcon to surprise us in a more vibrant way. We’ll see, with D2R and DI releasing this year, it will be all D4 next year. 2022 is the year for Diablo 4 indeed.
I don’t know about anybody else…But I haven’t frozen, crashed, or lagged out once during PTR. Not sure why that’s the case. S22 and S23 has been a nightmare for me, I could literally get froze-up or crash 10 times a day.
Possibly thanks to rather lower player traffic. As far as I know PTR server is completely separated from main server and it can handle things fine.
Yes, they do intend to fix it and have been working on it.
Because they ARE testing fixes so if you have better results that is great.
They are not announcing a fix until they know for SURE that it really is fixed though. That is why the Bug fix section on the PTR notes was blank.
2 Likes
And how would we know that, as they haven’t updated that thread in months?
We’re back to “We’ll be better at communicating, we promise!” thing again.
Trust me? 
I know there are bugs they have left in game for years, mostly due to them being rare and hard to pin down. Performance bugs though they usually try to fix if they can. This is no exception. Nobody logically wants the game to be freezing and crashing.
However, they have learned from backlash not to say something is “fixed” until it is fixed for certain. Hopefully the PTR testing shows improvement and they can put the bug to bed. 
1 Like
I wasn’t not doubting that you might know they’re doing something. I was asking how us lowly greys would know, seeing as how the blues are running radio silent, as usual.
Improved communications generally doesn’t include not updating your customers for months on end about a problem that’s been outstanding for over a year.