I can’t blame any one update in particular but this game get slower and slower with every update. Is there a reason why options to change the graphics settings are basically nonexistent? The very few options I can change do not reduce lag or loading times at all.
I know that one part of the problem is loading other players, traveling to a town, entering a legion/world boss event gets me 5-10 seconds of frozen screen. But it is more than that, even when I am alone in the wilds and sometimes even while doing solo dungeons the game will freeze periodically followed by a few more seconds of extremely laggy play.
I use an external hard drive with my xbox so I know my console storage is not even close to being full. I do not have any internet issues at my place, or even with other xbox games.
I am seriously concerned that once this new season drops and I have to get ANOTHER massive update, Diablo may very well be completely unplayable on the Xbox One. Blizzard needs to put a pause on adding to the game, and focus on optimizing the game. And in my opinion, just allowing players to lower the resolution, or change any graphic settings would probably help too.