Want to come back for the next season (35) for funnsies and there isn’t even a mention of it anywhere.
Ummm…S34 literally just started. It’ll be a while before we find out about S35. We didn’t find out about this season’s theme until shortly before the end of S33.
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Hell, they didn’t even announce Season 34 until January 10th, three weeks before the Season start. Why would you think they would announce Season 35 when it’s at least three months away?
If we continue our current pattern of 86 days for a Season:
- Season 34 should end on Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 5 PM PDT/CEST/KST.
- Season 35 should start on Friday, May 2, 2025 at 5 PM PDT/CEST/KST.
There. Now it’s been mentioned. 
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bUt YoU’rE nOt A bLuE pOsTeR!
Heck, I’d give you a green MVP stamp though. You’ve been one of several exceptionally helpful volunteers on the forum for a long, long time.
Except after what people did to Leviathan last week for no reason other than they thought he was a Blizzard rep… perhaps not. I wouldn’t wish that cretinous behaviour on anyone.
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True. But, they didn’t ask for an “official” notice… in the title or the OP.
Thanks, mate! 
Yeah. No need to “paint a target on my back” too. 
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If you are curious why they don’t announce season starts months in advance, simply go read the dozens of threads with players being angry because they changed the date. A lot of stuff can happen in 3 months. These reasons are why they wait until 2-3 weeks before the season start to announce the season start.
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That’s strange no news yet about season ending date and new season.
And there probably won’t be (officially) until Sunday, April 20, 2025 or later.
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IT cant start friday 2 May. Because season 8 of diablo 4 starts april 29. They “messed” this up with searton 34 start when it had the same week as d4 new season. So its more logic it will end May 4 and start fri May 9.
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Next Season theme and its ingredients supposed to be announced by now. As have been said, probably it’s about new Season of D4 landing too close with it. I think the announcement would be made when about two weeks left in the Season, with five days or so in between Season end and start of next one. If it’s not made by Friday, then it’s most likely postponed for whatever reason and you shouldn’t worry about it.
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Yeah. This was why when they messed up with Season 33’s ending, they should have just kept it that way. Had they just ended it on Season 33s catastrophe, Diablo 3 seasons would now be ahead of Diablo 4, instead of behind. At this point, sans a critical issue, the game is static. So, you’d never going to have to worry about the season being delayed for updates.
The same is not true with Diablo 4 though. Unfortunately, we’re in a forever situation where Diablo 3’s start date is dependent on Diablo 4. I.e. There’s no way whatsoever Diablo 3 would start on the same week. Yeah, they had it originally for Season 34’s start date, but pretty much everyone knew it would be delayed, and to no one’s surprise, it was.
(And yes, all the Diablo’s Seasons/Ladders are technically dependent upon one another, but being ahead of Diablo 4 would mean you probably have multiple years’ worth Diablo 4 seasons before you need to worry about conflicts again whereas now, it will forever be being delayed by Diablo 4.)
Blizzard has restarted the China server on Apr. 16th. Hence, the current season might last much longer for the Chinese people to enjoy the seasonal theme.
https://d3resource.com/seasons/index.php1
As other have stated. D3’s next season will most likely start after D4’s season start. The current season theme was introduced in S-27. They can’t use the theme from S-28 (introduced the altar) or S-29 (introduced vision pools). So they will have to pick a different theme.
Either way Last Epoch season 2 starts today 4/17/2025 at 12pm EST (one can figure out via google what the start time is through their patch 1.2 patch notes or via google). I’m going to jump into LE again. I abandoned LE’s patch 1.1.7 (season 1.1) mid-season reset to play D3’s S-33 and S-34. I only stayed on D3 because I really liked the shadow clones of S-33 and I skipped S-27 which was re-used for S-34. LE’s patch 1.2 (season 2) is a massive patch with rebalancing of classes and lots of new content.
There seems to be a lack of satisfaction with D4 and PoE 2, which is making LE look more attractive right now. I suspect that folks are going to be a bit less interested with the next D3 season. With all of the turmoil in the world of politics/geo-politics, folks will be longing for fun/escapes. Blizz is missing out on an opportunity IMO.
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Guaranteed this will be closer to what happens. S8 over there is seeing alot more negativity than previous seasons so they won’t risk losing any more players to D3
I honestly would not be surprised it S35 was pushed out 2-3 more weeks.
Blizz has very little incentive to put a priority on D3. They want people who haven’t to buy D4 and play that. Seasons have been jank ever since D4’s release, and they’ll stay that way in perpetuity.
ETA: I would not be surprised if seasons for D3 turn into a bi-annual affair going forward, either, so as to allow for more focus on D4.
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When I see season start and end dates in D3 being changed as to not conflict with D4 it occurs to me WHY are they so concerned about an antiquated game that is no longer being developed affecting the playerbase in the new game. There is definitely more to this than avoiding conflict.
If D3 is affecting D4 enough to be this concerning it tells me D3 isn’t the problem.
It may be that there’s some overlap in the way the servers interact. If the servers are part of a server “farm”, where server blades are networked together… That is highly unlikely, but a plausible explanation.
As far as S35 goes, @Perusoe is correct. However, because season 34 got pushed back a week, there is a possibility that the dates posted are a week off. Instead of 86 days, it’s 93 days. At any rate, I’m expecting a note next week regarding this.
And this is why I play the switch version where I’m in control. 
I’ve always thought it was the other way around, that people playing both would mostly prioritise D4, so they avoid overlap to get more people to play D3.
But in the end it’s neither and both. It’s not an admissions that one game is “stealing” customers from the other, or that this game is better than that. It’s just an acknowledgement that many like to play both D3 and D4 at season start, and by not having them both at the same time, people get to play both. Which means more hours in blizzard games, so everyone’s happy.
It’s just some that are so emotionally invested in their game being better than other games, that they read what they want to read from any piece of information. Just internet being internet I guess.
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While you’re not wrong in general terms… I think you’re assuming benevolence (and/or absence of malevolence) from a company that’s proven itself in recent years to be undeserving of the benefit of the doubt. My question to the nebulous “them” at blizz would be what data, if any, supports a hypothesis that there’s a statistically significant playerbase that WOULD play both D3 and D4 concurrently, BUT are absolutely choosing one at the sole exclusion of the other, if they both launch new seasons simultaneously?
How many people does this “let’s delay seasons” actually benefit? Because I can tell you - not guess, but straight up TELL you - there’s a LOT more people than whatever figure they pull from their butt, that got royally effed by the “blip.” Which was caused, at its core, specifically because seasons for D3 got shifted around due to being “too close” to D4’s expansion launch.
You’re not wrong that internet loves to do internet stuff. At the same time, we’re not wrong to be wary of blizzard’s “good intentions” given their track record in recent times.
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