RELATED: Blizzard Hiring New Diablo 4 Season Lead Designer After Season 1 Backlash By contrast, Diablo 4 recently launched Season of the Malignant, its first post-release content, and player reception has been anything but stellar. The highly-anticipated sequel to Path of Exile is shedding the systems bloat of its predecessor, and Grinding Gear Games has announced a Closed Beta for Summer 2024. Path of Exile was born out of an admiration of what Diablo 2 did for the hack-and-slash genre, and for many Diablo fans, it was a refuge during the darkest days of Diablo 3.Įventually, Reaper of Souls and Path of Exile established themselves as two philosophically different, yet equally successful pillars of the genre, and now Path of Exile 2 and Diablo 4 are the second generation of this camaraderie. Though the gaming community as a whole would consider the two franchises rivals, Path of Exile and Diablo have largely benefited from each other's existence. Grinding Gear Games has started to showcase the full scope of its vision for Path of Exile 2, but during a recent interview, the stuio also offered some insight into the situation currently plaguing Diablo 4.
While Diablo 4 faces backlash over its recent design choices, the solution lies in Blizzard's hands, and Path of Exile 2 may provide valuable feedback for it as well as the wider hack-and-slash genre.Path of Exile and Diablo have benefited from each other's existence, with Path of Exile being a refuge for Diablo fans during the darker days of Diablo 3.Grinding Gear Games developers recently commented on the Diablo 4 Season 1 controversy, saying that they feel for Blizzard and noting that it is hard to adapt to a seasonal format.
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