Blizzard Reiterates That Diablo 4 Isn't Coming To Xbox Game Pass For Now

That's fine. I'm in no rush to pay $70 for an online only, battle pass and microtranction filled, game anyway. I'm happy to wait for a significant price drop. 😊

@InterceptorAlpha microtransactions and battlepasses that you can completely ignore and still enjoy the entirety of the actual game play on offer.

According to my stats I have over 17 days of game time on Diablo 4 and I have felt zero need to engage with the shop.

I only have the paid battlepass for season one because it came with the version I purchased. Beyond season one I expect I will just run the free pass.

I have found several cosmetic horse skins and other cosmetic items just by playing the game and clearing the content.

The only money I expect to pay beyond the box price will be for the planned future expansions.

Even if the acquisition closed tomorrow, chances are it would take between 3 and 4 months for ABK games to start being added into GP, and they would not all be added at once. We saw the same with ZeniMax, not all games got added overnight, nor at once.

I'm in no rush to play this, my backlog is huge, but anyone that still is holding up thinking it will make it into GP soon, should just buy it unless they are OK waiting potentially until late fall.

FTC lost! The Pi was denied!

"This is not happening." Yes, you are correct. Me buying this game for $70 is not happening. When Microsoft acquires you, and they say it's happening, I'll play it on Game Pass. Until then, bye.

@BBB Doesn't matter if you can ignore them. I don't support games with microtransactions or battle passes. Same reason I canceled my preorder for the Halo Infinite campaign. Multiplayer having both.

There's are plenty of other great games for me to buy that don't include these while I wait for the price to drop. 😊

Indeed, wonder what will happen since Mike Ybarra said no!

WE HAVE THE DECISION!

FTC LOST! Microsoft-ABK can close!

https://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/status/1678781300080259075

@Kaloudz I never thought I’d ever look forward to seeing more news regarding the Activision buyout but since it was rumoured that a decision could be made last week, which obviously never materialised…..as I was typing this I just saw other people’s posts that a decision has been made and that the FTC has lost! Yes get in there!

Surely now this merger is practically guaranteed to go ahead, even Diablo 4 will be added to Game Pass once everything is official, regardless of what has been said?

@InterceptorAlpha up to you of course. Me, I will keep ignoring the mtx and enjoying the otherwise great game that is Diablo 4

An always online title is tailor made for game pass. Customers aren’t saddled with dead weight should the servers go down but the continued sub means continued engagement,

@BBB The devs themselves pretty much admitted that leaderboards and QoL fixes will be fleshed out by Season 3 roughly and that would be 9 months minimum away. They’re even floating the idea now of season characters not having to restart over every time due to player discomfort with the current system being so slow and unsatisfying.

So, I’d say he’s being wise waiting for it to hit Gamepass whenever as the current end game is pretty abysmal and boring. Nice launch for a Diablo game but it’s like they learnt nothing over the last 10 years from D3.

p.s I’m new by the way, hello!

@Kosm First things first hello & welcome.

As far as I know they are floating the idea of implementing the rebirth system from D3. If you are not aware all this does is take an existing character, resets it to lvl 1 and then puts it into seasons. Technically you are using the same character but you will still have to relevel it.

You will already carry over alters of Lilith and map completion to a point. You will have to go around the map to unlock waypoints outside of main hubs, all the dungeons and strongholds again.

D3 took several years before it got most things sorted out in terms of QoL & I never expected D4 to be any different.

Personally I enjoy the game and the game play loop as it stands now. It's easy to forget the D4 has only been live just over a month and the game has held up pretty well imo (ddos attacks aside).

I hope for this live service game things will only get better and more fun as time goes by.

@BBB Ah, thanks for clearing that up about the rebirth system. That makes more sense now.

Definitely will improve for sure, that’s the hope. I remember D3’s launch. It was pretty bad compared to D4’s. I foresee that within the timeframe of them releasing the next expansion (like with D3’s Reaper of Souls) we’ll be looking at a whole different game, hopefully a much more improved one.

I foresee therefore maybe when that first expansion comes out maybe the base game will come to Gamepass but not the expansion content.

Considering the recent ruling on the FTC it sounds like this will be showing up before long. Honestly that is what I am banking on, because I don't want to purchase a live services game I could get with a subscription.