“There's no pay for power,” Shely states, for what feels like the fourth time across our interview and presentation section. Unsurprisingly, this time around, Blizzard is keen to stress that Diablo 4’s microtransactions are solely limited to cosmetic items – ensuring that the only advantage money grants you is prettier armor. Thanks to a disastrous online launch and broken ‘pay to powerup’ microtransactions, Diablo 3’s online marketplace quickly resulted in a mess of a game. It wasn’t just the third entry’s lackluster story and PG-13 tone that upset some fans. I think it's so cool that we were able to build this expansive world of Sanctuary out of all the core Diablo gameplay and have it in a real place that you can run and ride across.” The root of all evil Well, there's a statue in the middle of town and you can run over to it and switch your world tier from adventure to veteran. “You're sitting in the middle of, snow coming down. “You're in the UI deciding the difficulty, to play on this server with these other people – in Diablo 4 all that takes place in the game world.” “In Diablo 3, even when you're in the game, you're sitting in a menu,” Diablo 4’s Game Director, Joe Shely, explains. Where the last game saw players navigating servers via a series of menus, here everything happens in the background while exploring Diablo’s dark and demon-infested world. While roaming large maps is hardly novel in video games, Diablo 4’s use of an open world hiding a lobby feels innovative.
Sanctuary is also a scarily large place to explore, with Diablo 4 delivering the series' first true open world. Internally we were using this phrase 'return to darkness’ and that was really the idea – innovating with Diablo 4’s gameplay but going back to what Diablo was as a franchise.
“When people ask what the elevator pitch is for Diablo 4, I always say, it's the dark tone of Diablo 1, the progression and permanence of Diablo 2, and the visceral combat of Diablo 3.
“ is a homage to what Diablo used to be,” he explains.
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