![]() ![]() It’s also unlikely we hear any kind of news from Diablo this year and Diablo fans could be in for another year of disappointment at BlizzCon. With people like Yang and Vu leaving the team, it’s likely they are still in high concept stages and not getting down to the details yet. So what do we know about this unannounced project (which I am very much assuming is Diablo 4 at this point)? Not much, other than it’s in it’s early concept and design phases. That is starting to leave quite the skeleton crew left for Diablo 3 and likely shows that Blizzard’s plan for the game moving forward will be to focus on patch material as opposed to releasing a new expansion for the game. John Yang and Don Vu have both been pulled from the Diablo team to go help with World of Warcraft: Legion for the time being. Leonard Boyarsky, the Lead World Designer for Diablo 3, has left Blizzard and is now working with Obsidian. Not only has it not been announced yet, but yesterday we learned about several Diablo 3 developers leaving the team (although some might be temporarily). So are we going to see a second expansion for Diablo 3? The answer is very likely not. It’s still obvious that their next game is still in the early stages and at this point it would be ridiculous to assume that these positions are for expansion related material. The ones currently up right now are for Senior Concept Artists, Senior Character Designer, and Senior VFX Artist. They’ve hired their art director and several other positions. If you’ve been keeping a keen eye on the Blizzard’s career page you’ll also have seen more job openings pop up in the last year for the “Unannounced Project” on Team 3 (Diablo’s development team). As we all know, Diablo was fairly absent at BlizzCon last year with no announcements – but instead just small developer talks that weren’t live streamed.įor those who have been visitors at Blizzard Campus and have gone on tours there, you’ll know that the Diablo development area has been locked down and set off limits to visitors since 2015 and is still in lock down. ![]() ![]() ![]() In that article I had assumed they were already working on the second expansion for Diablo 3 and it would be announced at BlizzCon 2015. Last August I wrote an article that it appeared that Blizzard had started development toward Diablo 4. ![]()
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