Real shame with that release date for the new season. I hardly ever come back to D3 but thought about giving it another go until I saw it was releasing 3 days before Shadowlands.
Of course it’s also a real shame shadowlands wasn’t delayed another month or two based on the current state of it in beta. Have a feeling that’s going to be messy.
When are we gonna know the launch-schedule? 
2 weeks ago.
//20 chars.
Assuming everything go as planned, the season will start this coming Friday at 5PM KST, CET and PST for each region respectively.
Time Zone |
Time |
Day |
Date |
|---|---|---|---|
PST |
5:00 PM |
Friday, | November 20, 2020 |
CET |
5:00 PM |
Friday, | November 20, 2020 |
KST |
5:00 PM |
Friday, | November 20, 2020 |
I live on the east coast in North America. I play D3 on all 3 Regions. In Season 22 I will start on the Asia Region because I still have one Stash Tab to earn there. (It also starts 14 hours earlier in relation to my time).
The timeanddate.com Time Zone Converter allows you to easily convert Blizzard’s Season start times to your local time zone. (Blizzard’s Season Blogs have linked to this website in the past). And it has a Download/Export feature that allows posting a link to the time conversions. (If you want or need to share them with other players). You have a choice of copying a link to the website, showing the time conversions you’ve entered. Or you can just copy the plain text time conversions.
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20201120T080000&p1=235&p2=411
Seoul, South Korea Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 5:00 pm KST
Jacksonville, USA Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 3:00 am EST
What time on Friday (11/20) will the season begin? Or, should we just presume that it is the same as it has been in the past (8 pm EST).
Yeah. It’s odd that we haven’t been given start times yet, other than date. It seems moot to post it in a FAQ section of the Season 22 Now Live Blog.
They may not have posted it in case they cannot start on time. Hoping to avoid the forums being flooded with “It hasn’t started yet” threads and posts. Although, we’ll have that anyway, if it doesn’t start at its regularly scheduled time. 
I just looked at the console section and season 22 is apparently live on consoles? What the hell?
Apparently they accidentally started the season, but have turned it off again…
Console players that did their Challenge Rift to get the cache for this will be left cacheless for when the season starts properly on Friday. We’d joked about S22 maybe starting late because they couldn’t end S21 on time, but I doubt anyone foresaw them starting a season early.
Maybe. If they’re smart the data was preserved and people will be able to start right where they left off, or were kicked out.
If they were smart? Who am I kidding. 
If they’re reasonable, they should reset the CR for the console players.
Huh. Didn’t notice that. For some reason I thought they’d already announced the start times too (like they usually do), but I guess not. I just assumed based on past seasons. That’s weird.
I don’t play on console, so I’m not sure how different it is from PC. But,
If the Challenge Rift data was saved, those console players should be able to collect the Challenge Cache on a non-Season Character. But, not on a Seasonal Character.
Best case scenario: The Challenge Rift data was not saved and those players can run the Challenge Rift again.
Updated the blog and forum post to include Season 22 launch start times!
CR data is saved on their leaderboards, which are online…if you did the CR then your PSN/Live/Nintendo account will be on the LB’s and there is no way to redo it to get a CR reward.
The local saves of console has no bearing on CR Leaderboard entries. It is your initial post on the LB that triggers the cache reward.
Shouldn’t they be able to collect the Challenge Cache on a non-Season Character though? (That’s how it works on PC. I’ve done it before).
Thanks! 
Yes but clearly something has gone wrong but they have an entry on the CR Leaderboard thus can’t get the reward again.
A patch was rolled out today to address 2.6.10 the crash issues mentioned in our Bug Section here. The patch has been applied to PC/Mac and currently in process for consoles. I’ll chime in again regarding any console dates/times as I get updates from the dev team. Thanks for your patience and understanding!!
FilthieRich, can you say if bug with Wicked Wind twisters rune overwriting Raging Storm damage will be fixed?
Soooo… no Shenlong bug fix ? Are you going to fix it before season ?