“Rise of the Necromancer” was not an expansion. It was a DLC purchase that got you one new class. Avalon is right there was only one expansion for D3. The 2nd one although planned, was cannibalized and sold as one new class. I was there for all of it so I know where of I speak.
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There’s always a reason, and usually that reason is no one is interested in the product and money. Concord proved this. No one was interested in playing it, it had horrible sales, and they shut it down. Regardless of the reasons people didn’t want to play it, it just didn’t sell.
We have no idea where the franchise will be taken over the years. Their original plan was annual expansions, but as we all know plans change. Not to mention Microsoft may not see any profit in it depending on how well the MTX sales have been going, along with the sales of VoH when it finally launches.
While I know the MTX has been doing fairly well from my point of view, I can’t say the same for Microsoft execs, who may expect a higher number in sales. All we can say for certain is VoH will come out, updates will be made, seasons will go back to normal, and we’ll see from there.
Wouldn’t worry about it now though, as there’s quite literally nothing we can do but give our feedback about the game in hopes that it changes for the better. I also wouldn’t pay any attention to anything the devs say in interviews when it comes to propaganda for their own game. They’ll use all sorts of buzz words and phrases with quite literally no meaning to try and get the player base hyped to buy their products.
As a consumer, take a look at the product, evaluate if it’s worth it for you, and go from there, it’s not rocket science. If you need a dev, a streamer, a content creator, an X poster, a forum user, etc. to tell you what to do, you may want to reevaluate your life choices.
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As per the community l, the last 2 seasons have been a step backwards not forwards, they aren’t even bothering with seasonal content anymore because you all think a quest line is enough. And the whole rework for VoH launch was for what? We did way more damage in the PTR and that won’t change without another rework to paragons and main stats
I instantly stopped reading that article when it said
The game still has issues that were around at launch, has some new sizable problems, the MTX costs are the same (aka way too high), and honestly I wouldnt consider d4 a staple at all.
Whoever wrote that is an idiot.
Some of you worry way too much over this stuff. If there is an expansion then cool, if there isnt then oh well. Its not a big deal.
It’s not a big deal to YOU. When are you going to learn that other people do in fact care about this stuff and now matter how frickin much you preach at them they are not interested in your advice? Lord you are really a broken record. STOP IT!
Rise of the Necromancer was not an expansion it was a character pack.
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Calm down , there is no need to act out like that over a silly video game. It really is not a big deal.
All right I’ve had it with you and your holier than thou attitude. You are back on ignore and for good this time. What a jerk!
Getting upset and calling people names over a little video game is not normal. Try acting like a mature, rational person. Some of you guys have some real issues if a video game of all things makes you act this childish.
I am a little bit surprised how many people are unsatisfied with the seasonal content.
I think the D4 seasons are fine. There always is class tuning, new items / new aspects/builds, a seasonal questline and a big new feature. 2 of 5 seasons had BIG overhauls on systems.
So… what do you want…? A new game each season?
A diablo game should be entertaining enough without seasonal content at all.
For me, I could have fun without any season content.
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Actually that quote isn’t saying much… it uses language that can mean anything, language that can even mask the opposite sentiment. “Staple” isn’t a standard measure. “Staple” also means “the game is still around and lots of people are playing it”.
You can also learn a lot from what gets quoted vs what gets paraphrased. (But also, Blizz employees are trained to use PR language that says as little as possible, so quotes aren’t informative as such.) If Blizzard is:
now all-in on “supporting the game for years to come.”
…does it mean it wasn’t “all-in” until recently? “All-in”: if that’s what’s being paraphrased, you have to wonder what it actually means, in terms of hot warnings from execs to the D4 team. And in this wobbly context, the quoted words “supporting… for years to come” are weaker than was even pointed out earlier in the thread.
D3 is currently being “supported”. But ofc D3 was gutted around 2013, and the higher quality seasonal updates of later years came despite what any rational person would describe as withheld support from Blizzard: yet Blizzard was technically “supporting” it. This is how icky & ambiguous human language is. The ASI will have an easy time taking over, bc its principal weapon will be to use our languages against us to misdirect & sow chaos.
VoH isn’t mentioned until the conclusion of the article (final 4 lines), and no other expansion “info” is anywhere to be seen, which definitely means “future expansion plans” is a topic being deliberately avoided - as someone pointed out above (OP?). Insistences to the contrary have been emotional. A plain reading of the text makes this unavoidable - it’s the single most pertinent question, it never gets asked, but there’s lots of vague language around it.
Also, anyone ever read dotesports before? Me neither, despite it being around for 11 years. Would an IGN, GameSpot, PC Gamer, Forbes reporter have failed to ask the question on the eve of the first expac? Probably not. The publication’s D4 coverage has included posting articles on individual bugs & oversights; they feature articles on things like Asmongold’s take on the Palworld-Nintendo lawsuit; the author published 5 other articles on the same day as the Rod interview (LOL). It’s an influencer blog, and its writers probably barely eking a living. Connect the dots.
You can infer a lot more from textual analysis & from context, than from PR wording.
Yearly expansions was a stretch, but I don’t see quarterly seasons changing. They still do seasons in D2 and D3 and neither of those games have seen an expansion in over a decade.
And none of them every will. New areas to explore will only come with expansions. Seasons are never meant to be anything more than new ways to level a character with whatever new gimick is provided.
I see at best two more expansions for this game. That’s it. One for Baal and one for Diablo. I never did buy into the yearly expansions line and thought it was more of a poor choice of words by Bobby.
The big problem is that VoH will essentially complete Estuar. There’s still some unexplored areas that could be added as seasonal content and maybe even a large patch for Xiansai, but adding the entirety of the western continent would take AT LEAST 3 expansions. That’s really pushing it, given that D5 is already in development. It sounds like they’ve decided to stop after Estuar and are intentionally walking back their earlier statements about annual expansions and dodging questions with vague answers about continued live service support.
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Yes, Blizzard was also affected but it’s mostly customer service and all.
And the entire Odyssey team (MMO survival game under development 6 years). 
We should be able to quite season early on and return to eternal realm with our stuff anytime.
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No 20 characters man