While Diablo IV’s first season of content won’t arrive until after its launch, Blizzard says that free story content will be added every three months alongside a new Battle Pass and other updates.
Blizzard says that Diablo IV will be updated quarterly with free story content and a fresh Battle Pass, with only the premium Battle Pass tracks requiring additional purchases outside of fully-fledged expansions. Last week, the team revealed much of the endgame content we can expect to find in Diablo IV after we finish the main campaign, and these small story additions will help flesh out Sanctuary that little bit more.
Diablo IV will receive free story content and premium expansions
Speaking with Game Informer (via Dexerto), Blizzard associate game director Joe Piepiora has shed some light on the team’s plans for Diablo IV’s post-launch content, which will come as free and premium content. For free content, we can expect to see seasonal updates applied every three months that will introduce small story additions to tie in new gameplay mechanics and more complex systems to the ever-growing world of Sanctuary. These quarterly updates will be accompanied by new Battle Passes, which will have free and premium tracks for you to work through, both of which will only offer cosmetic items. The first season won’t go lie until sometime after Diablo IV’s launch, however. The seasonal updates will fill the gap between full purchasable content expansions that will include a much larger amount of content.
Diablo IV launches on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One on June 6th, and Microsoft is offering a Diablo IV Xbox Series X bundle that is available to preorder now.
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