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Diablo 4 Development Ramping Up

Over the past month we've been seeing an increase in rumors surrounding the much anticipated Diablo 4. Earlier in June, we saw Kotaku post another bombshell of an article stating that a previously unknown Starcraft FPS game had been cancelled and that the team developing that game had been split to help with Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. While it shouldn't come as any surprise that Blizzard is working on the next Diablo, it is telling if they're starting to move more and more developers to the project.

When games are early in production, they only require a small group of senior developers to tackle the big 'pillars' of design. Things like the game engine, lighting, concept art, etc. are usually figured out first and then mid-level and associate-level developers are brought in later to help take the game from concepts to functioning. As a game gets closer and closer to alpha/beta testing the development team can swell. Blizzard has been known to do this in the past and has temporarily funneled developers from different teams in order to get games ready for release. This may be what's happening now. According to Kotaku, the Starcraft FPS game was specifically cancelled so that Blizzard could increase the team sizes for Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. These types of rumors make a major announcement at BlizzCon 2019 seem more likely.

In addition to this announcement of internal team movements, there was recently another article from the French news site Le Monde that stated that an early version of Diablo 4 had been shown to staff at the Versailles branch of Blizzard. This is an indicator that Blizzard is happy with the current iteration of Diablo 4 and has begun showing it internally across the globe to give employees an idea of what the future title will look like. Compare this to the rumors that last year Blizzard was showing Diablo 4 internal, but only to staff at Irvine, it is building the case that this year's BlizzCon will finally deliver the announcement Diablo fans have been waiting for since the launch of Reaper of Souls.

Discord Giveaway!

To celebrate our return, we are doing a giveaway through our official Discord server! To enter, first join our Discord server by clicking on the banner below. Then, go to the Announcements channel and follow the instructions on the giveaway post! We will choosing three winners when the giveaway ends this Sunday! The winners will be able to choose from either the Rise of the Necromancer DLC on PC, or the original Diablo + Hellfire expansion on GoG.com!

Official Forum Migration

The official Diablo forums are migrating to Blizzard's new forum software currently used on their other franchise forums!

Originally Posted by Nevalistis (Official Post)

As with other Blizzard game titles, the time has arrived for the Diablo III forums to migrate to new forum software.

 

There are a few important things to note about this migration process:

• Existing threads will not be carried over to the new forums
• The existing forums will be available in read-only mode for some time after the Forum Migration completes
• The same forum categories that you are used to will be available on the new forums
• When you log into the new forums for the first time, you’ll be asked to link your Battle.net name to Discourse for use on the new forums – once you link, you’re good to post!

 

We’re targeting the forum migration to happen between June 24 – July 9th – we are letting the community know early so they can be prepared for the switch to new forums.

 

We’ll keep the community updated as we get closer to the dates above and post about when the final switch to the new forums will happen.

 

You may have questions about the upcoming migration. Please feel free to ask them in this thread and we'll do our best to check in and answer as many as we can!

 

We're looking forward to our shiny new community space and hope to see you there.

Challenge Rift - Week 104

Challenge Rift Week 104 is live! This week the Challenge Rift features several Legacy of Nightmare Witch Doctor builds! If you are curious how Challenge Rift builds are chosen each week, you can view this official blog post!

It brings me immense joy to celebrate with the rest of the Diablo community as we unexpectedly open the doors of DiabloFans once again! Today, DiabloFans joins the Magic Find family alongside MMO-Champion and HearthPwn. Magic Find is a small independent team of people who are passionate about games and are focused on creating a home for the communities surrounding them. Under this new leadership, DiabloFans will have more freedom than ever before to grow and prepare for what's next.

Our focus moving forward will be on the community. We know that DiabloFans is the best place to find and share new builds, so we want to highlight more builds of all kinds on a regular basis. This means that we will be showcasing not only the top builds from the community, but also some of the more wild and interesting builds! On top of that, we want to connect with more of the content creators you know and love to bring their awesome builds to a larger audience!

DiabloFans will continue to be the best place for up-to-date news and announcements surrounding all things Diablo! So much exciting news has happened in the past few months that we missed regarding Diablo, such as the start of Season 17, the original Diablo making its way to GoG, more developers being moved onto the team working on the next Diablo game, and more murmurs from an upcoming Netflix series! We plan to catch up on this news while also looking forward to the exciting future!

Finally, we're excited to announce that we have launched our own official Discord server! This server is the perfect place to chat with other fans of Diablo, find new people to play with, get your questions answered, and stay up to date on the latest news! Everyone is welcome, so feel free to invite all of your friends as well! You can join our official Discord server by clicking the banner below!

 Our future is bright and filled with demon slaying, and we can't wait to see everyone in Sanctuary once again.

Deciding to close DiabloFans, along with a handful of other community websites, wasn’t an easy decision for our company, but we could no longer justify the substantial engineering resources it took to run the properties. It was a sad day in our office when we announced the sunsetting of many beloved sites.

Previously, we weren’t able to entertain selling the sites because they were built on a proprietary platform. It would be a monumental task for an external engineering team to maintain or migrate the communities. Knowing this, we announced the site closures, but just as the sun slowly began to set for these properties, a figure appeared . . .

As of this week, we’ve identified a company with the necessary experience to buy and run these sites (including DiabloFans), so that the passionate communities will continue to have homes on these long-standing sites. With this, we have started to transfer the sites to Magic Find. As for the staff on these sites, it will be up to them and Magic Find to decide how they’d like to move forward.

This isn’t the end for DiabloFans. It’s a new and exciting beginning. We wish Magic Find the best as we say goodbye to several of the properties that helped our company grow into what it is today.

This will be the last update from Curse/Fandom. All future communications will be from the new site owner.