I am wondering how the deluxe and ultimate content works for player 2. I am going to play the game with my wife. If it’s like D3 the deluxe and ultimate content was available for player 2 completely. That might be different here since everything now is battle.net account bounded. Does anyone know if any of the deluxe or ultimate content can be accessed by player 2. If not there really isn’t a point for people want to play couch co op to buy these and end up only one player has access to them. Or will there be a separate purchase a available just for the deluxe and ultimate content without buying the game again? Especially for the battle pass skip, we both work full-time and have 2 young kids we can only play a bit after they went to bed or no time to play at all. Will there be a way to purchase battle pass with skip alone? Please comment if you know anything. Thanks!
This is a great question, because after purchasing the Ultimate Edition for the early access, if my girlfriend isn’t going to be able use my licenses to play it with me, that’s going to destroy my experience.
Hogwarts Legacy early access worked through license transfers, hopefully Diablo IV will too.
Whilst its just an assumption, I cant imagine they’d screw couch partners from being able to play together through all of it.
Right, the thing is Hogwarts legacy was not account bounded, anyone who logs in on a console that has the primary account purchased the deluxe edition gets the deluxe content.
D4 has crossplay, they can’t let a PC copy owner just login to a console that has ultimate edition to get all the ultimate content and carry them back to PC. If they can do something like these are only available when playing on this console that would be great, but I think that’s hard to implement. Or if they could give a warning and allow just one more player bound to the a console license that would be really great. But these approaches have technical difficulties.
I would be happy if they could allow sharing deluxe or ultimate content on console except for the battle pass. But I have a feeling non of these are going to happen. If that is the case at least give us options to buy them separately so we don’t have to buy the base game twice.
Pretty sure I’ve heard that if you buy the ultimate edition on one platform then that applies everywhere, even if the other copy you buy is a standard edition as you’re still required to buy the game again on said other platform, but all the ultimate edition goodies would also be available to you on the platform you bought the ultimate edition.
I don’t know how that would work with things like early access…etc but I do vaguely remember one of the devs saying something like that.
Yes, that I am sure we all just need to have one ultimate edition and buy just the base game on all other platform will still have ultimate content access. But we are discussing about the player 2 on console now what would they get if they stick with the main game buyer to sololy play on console.
The issue is how they will deal with things like xbox gameshare. As yes games like Hogwarts Legacy gave the extras also to the gameshared account even if not on the same console.
The issue is with Blizzard games its normally account bound. So why early access may work because xbox tells the blizzard server you have access to the game that doesnt always mean the special edition items do carry over. Its really a game by game bases.
Hopefully we can get an official response before the release date.
What are you even asking? If another Battlenet account dont have the Ultimate edition, they dont get access to those extra rewards. You cant Co-op on one account, that would be the same as multi boxing. Its account bound like you say, so why should player 2 have access to your Ultimate edition stuff? They need to buy it themselves, on their account.