Blizzard Entertainment works on a new expansion for Devil IV which will arrive during the next year 2026, which will not comply with its initial plan to launch an expansion per year for this title, it will also announce its road map with new seasons of seasons and updates for 2025 “just before” of the launch of season 8.
With the launch of Diablo IV in June 2023, the American developer moved her intention to launch a content expansion annually, as part of a live service approach similar to that used in other titles such as Destiny developed by Bungie Studios.
However, the first expansion of the Action RPG title, Vessel of Hatred, ended up arriving on October 8 of last year, around 17 months after the arrival of the original title.
Now, the general director of the video game, Rod Fergusson, has shared that Diablo IV will not have a new expansion until next year 2026, confirming that the developer will not follow her initial plan to offer an expansion per year.
This has been released by the Game Producer, and IGN has collected, within the framework of his speech at the event says Summit held in Las Vegas (United States), where he has also detailed some of the reasons for these delays in the title launches.
In this sense, Fergusson explained that, although they work with “one or two seasons of advance”, it was necessary Therefore, the delay in the launch of the first expansion. Likewise, this led to the delay of “all the rest of the planned content”, including the second expansion, which will officially arrive in 2026.
During his speech, the manager has also advanced that “just before season 8 ″ the developer will announce its content route to Diablo IV in 2025.
This new season for Diablo IV is scheduled for April, so it is expected to be during this period when the company shares the new seasons and updates planned to launch throughout this year.
However, Fergusson has not transferred information related to the novelties of the content planned for 2025, nor has it offered more data on the focus of the new expansion planned for next year.