It is time for Shattered Soul Stone, featuring the latest news from Sanctuary and beyond. Each episode, a heroic party of Nephilim Band together to help keep you informed on everything in the Diablo universe. And now your Diablo Community podcast. Coming to you from somewhere in sanctuary. This is episode 4, 2 5 of Shattered Soul Stone, your Diablo Community podcast. This episode is called Never Ending Seasons. Now you have that song lyric in your head. If you're old enough to remember it,
it is September 8th, 2023. And this is Jen. So I've got a variety of things to talk about. Um, I wanna apologize for not having a show. Last week we had a lot of construction work going on outside that has nothing to do with exactly where we live, but the street outside and we both got sick, so I figured you probably don't wanna hear me coughing through an episode. So we skipped it and here we are.
I've got a thing here from the PlayStation blog and it's talking about different games that they've got. But the header says New pricing changes to PlayStation plus 12 month plans. So if you have a PlayStation, this is what you're in for. Let's see. So the new prices for PlayStation plus 12 month subscription plans are as follows, the PlayStation plus Essential 12 month subscription US dollars is $79 and 99 cents. It's got comparable ones for Europe, G B E P and Yen.
There's also the PlayStation plus extra 12 month subscription, which is a hundred and thirty four ninety nine U S D and comparable amounts in the other uh, countries. And PlayStation plus premium 12 month subscription, which is $159 and 99 cents U s D and a comparable amount in the other places. The new prices for the 12 month subscription will remain at a discounted rate when compared to purchasing the one month or three month subscriptions over a 12
month period. For current 12 month subscribers, this price increase will not take effect until your next renewal date that occurs on or after November 6th. However, any membership changes you make on or after September 6th, such as upgrades, downgrades, or buying additional time will update your plan. Reflecting on the new prices, you can change your cat, sell your subscription at any time, and there's a link for details. Now.
They put this on their blog after advertising all the cool September games that were coming out that you could play. And uh, so you'd look at that and maybe not look any farther and notice that the prices are going up. So I just want everybody that has a PlayStation to know the shenanigans that are happening over there. I've also got a Blizzard thing. I may have mentioned some of this before for BlizzCon and it's, it says specifically in person because they've had a couple that weren't in
person or weren't existing at all. So here's the stuff you need to know. You probably, if you have a ticket by now, you already know how that goes. Uh, you need the A x S mobile app to get into the show. I will not be there. Um, I don't think my immune compromised myself is gonna handle a conference that big, so I'm not going, you won't find me there. Um, but if they have like a video of it or a live feed or something, maybe I'll consider that 'cause you know, whatever.
So there's all kinds of stuff in here. Um, no children under the age of seven are allowed or we'll be permitted to enter and you cannot have strollers in the Anaheim Convention Center. Just something to know, there's a zero tolerance policy. Please note that BlizzCon Show Management has a zero tolerance policy for harassment of any kind. Harassment will not be tolerated at BlizzCon.
Anyone found to have engaged in her harassing or threatening behavior will face appropriate consequences as determined by BlizzCon show management, including but not limited to having their ticket revoked and issued a permanent ban to the show onsite security and police may be notified in accordance with all state laws and governing procedures. And that would be, um, California, of course, state laws. There's a code of conduct.
We want everyone at BlizzCon to feel like they are part of one Big Blizzard community. We ask that everyone at the show be respectful and courteous to their fellow attendees. If you witness or experience any activity that puts someone's safety or enjoyment of the show at risk, inform a staff member, security guard or police officer, we have escalation procedures in place to handle these kinds of situations.
And we will take the appropriate action from there in order to ensure your event provides a safe, enjoyable and welcoming environment for everyone. Blizzard reserves the right to remove from BlizzCon any person whose conduct is deemed to be disorderly unbecoming, who uses vulgar or abusive language or in any way deemed non-compliant with our rules and regulations. There's an accessibility thing. Blizzard is committed to providing an outstanding experience for all attendees.
At BlizzCon, we strive for access to all activities to the fullest extent possible based on awareness of attendees needs and appropriate planning. We ask that all requests for reasonable accommodations that BlizzCon be made by September 1st, 2023. So if you haven't done that now you're not getting your accessibility stuff. Um, so that we can best may best meet individual needs. Onsite requests will be accommodated to the best of our ability. However,
available resources may be limited. That's kind of, that's kind of garbage honestly. You know, have a good place for people that are disabled to enjoy the show. Don't, you know, cut 'em off at September 1st. I mean, come on, you know. Um, and then there's some other stuff down here I thought was interesting. They have a food and beverage policy. Here's what it says to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for all attendees at the convention center. BlizzCon is an alcohol free event.
Outside food and beverages including glass bottles, cans and alcoholic beverages are strictly prohibited. There is a weapons policy, firearms, fireworks, flammable liquids or aerosol products, pepper spray, knives, daggers, swords, clubs, maces or other, other crushing or edged weapons, projectiles, arag, guns, long bows, cross bows or any other weapons are strictly prohibited. There is also a smoking policy.
BlizzCon has a strict no smoking policy including traditional cigarettes, pipes, cigars, e-cigarettes, or any vaping product or device. This policy includes all event spaces at the Anaheim Convention Center. You are welcome to step outside the convention center to smoke in designated smoking areas only. This policy is in place to comply with the Anaheim City ordinances. Prohibiting smoking at public events near any doorway, entrance, exit, operable window or ventilation intake.
So that's the things you need to know if you miss that when you're getting your tickets. There is, um, a thing I found on Twitter recently. You've probably heard of Richard Knack. He's written a lot of the Diablo books and things like that. And now there is a company called Dragon Lance Nexus, which is your home for all things Dragon Lance, including the original d and d gaming material products, a wiki,
a podcast and more. And so they have made the journals of Caz, the Mau, the Lost Colony, into a playable d and D five E Game adventure. It's gonna be available later this year. And the cover features the iconic image from Legend Jeff Easley used by agreement with Wizards of the Coast slash Hasbro. And it looks really cool. Now, I don't know, um, how you feel about Dungeons and Dragons. A lot of very unfortunate stuff occurred earlier this year and people kind of
bounced from the system. Um, some of my friends and I are still playing through a game that we started in D and D five E and haven't quite finished yet. Actually there's two games going on with that. So we'll finish that and then shift to other things. Um, some of my friends have completely shifted to other things, so it's just,
you know, the way it goes. Um, one of my friends is creating a game that several of us are play testing that isn't d and d. So it's kind of up to you how you feel about Dungeons and Dragons and their content. But I know Richard Knack is a really good writer. We've got the cover out here that looks fantastic. All of this will go into the show notes@chatteredsoulstone.com with links where
you can find all this stuff if you want to take a look at it. Um, and I just think it's cool that they did make one that feels like, just feels right, you know, based on like the, the cas, the MAU book books. And if I remember correctly, we did have um, Richard Knack on Shattered Soul Stone way back in the day and asked him some questions about, you know, if you were gonna be playing a World of Warcraft, what kind of character would you select?
And he selected a Torin because that's what Caz is and I'm kind of babbling on about this guy, but it's really interesting that this has been produced. It'll be out eventually, I'm sure if you, um, if you wanna follow Dragon Lance Nexus on Twitter, you can probably find out, um, you know what they're doing. Or you could just go to their website if you don't wanna be on Twitter anymore,
which I think a lot of people have left. So yeah, that's a thing. Okay, so we're gonna move into Diablo three, which I played early this morning. Um, and I expected, like I'd heard more stuff about season 29 then I heard about season 28 and I'm like, is season 28 still live? Really? And I went in and it was so I started playing, um, and I edited a video. I'll put it up eventually, but um, yeah, so there's a thing from Maxwell written by Dred Sy who gets things right very
well. It says Season 28 is ending soon. This was last updated on August 29th, 2023. It says, let's see, we've got information below from the official um, Diablo three team dev team. Hello, all season 28 is coming to a close. Below are the times when season 28 will end for each region region.
If you're in North America, it ends on September 10 at 5:00 PM p D t if you are in Europe, September 10 at 5:00 PM C E S T, if you are in Asia, September 10 at 5:00 PM K S T. And then it says we will be providing a season 29 preview soon, which will include the start time for the next season. Stay tuned. So it's just a little bit of stuff here and then there is in fact from um, today September eight, we have uh, the season 29 vision of enmity preview for Diablo three.
So you got a couple days to finish whatever you're trying to do in the season journey in 28. This is 29 and I don't even know if this is the last one or what, but here's what we got. Time unravels before your very eyes in season 29. Visions of enmity, which goes live on September 15 at 10 at sorry, at 5:00 PM P D T C E T C uh K S t for an in-depth look at the seasonal theme. A addition of the solo self found, single player mode, paragon ceiling changes and quality of life updates.
Take a gander below. Okay. Dunno why they put gander in there. Will we be expecting geese? I'm not entirely sure what the future holds. A message from the Diablo three team, Valiant Nephilim have hack and slashed hordes through seasons. Introducing gameplay, alerting themes, experience defining quality of life updates and elastic events for the last 11 years. Diablo three will continue to burn bright in season 29 and beyond.
This season sets the bedrock for the game's future and introduces our final brand. New theme. Season 30 will bring fresh gameplay balances and bug fixes to reinvigorate your adventures but introduce no new theme. Instead, this season will usher in the permanent return of a community favored theme rights of sanctuary, which will be playable across all modes.
Following season 30 iconic themes and features from seasons past will be reintroduced roughly every three months, ensuring there will never be a shortage of twisted obstacles to overcome and demonic blood to spill. And they have a screenshot here of season 29 has begun so you know what to look for I guess if you haven't played in a bit. Season 29 theme. And this is in, there's a paragraph in italics here that I think is provided for like storyline or something. There it is. Out of thin air.
It appeared flashing a welcoming gleam accompanied by a whirring hum. And yet it vanished as quickly as it arrived. This isn't the first portal you've encountered before Nephilim, but is it innocuous in nature or a ploy by your adversaries? There is only one way to be certain muster the courage to step into the unknown temper both your body and mind to blossom into an unrelenting force. And it says season 29 introduces the new theme Visions of enmity.
I hope I'm saying that right. E N M I T Y. It's not a word I see a lot. Curious portals known as diabolical fissures have sprung up across sanctuaries wild wilderness and entering them triggers both dangerous memories from your past and even more dangerous emissaries of hell to slaughter. Here's the cosmetic awards, long forgotten treasures. See daylight once more in season 29. Let the old growth pet extend you a branch of fortitude in these uncertain times.
Ride the cosmos using the galactic wings and step your steep yourself in mythos with the gray hallow portrait. The new end of journey cosmetic rewards will drop into sanctuary with season 29 as well. Soar through the darkness with the majestic cloth Pet. It is a Raven . It is a glowing purple and blue raven named cloth like cloth. The Raven Nevermore Edgar Allen Poe, uh, at your side and proudly display your allegiance to Laic with the Mad King's favor portrait. I think these look kind of cool.
I don't know exactly how to get 'em but I'll try to get 'em. Season journey rewards. If you've been diligently slaying demons for the past few seasons and reached conqueror in the season journey, each time you've surely cued a few extra stash tabs, you'll earn one additional tab each season by finishing the conqueror tier up to a maximum of five. Here's some descriptions of this guardian of sanctuary. Finish a level 70 Nephilim rift on torment 13 within five minutes. Gem of my life.
Level three legendary gems to level 55. All I do is win complete two conquests this season. Show me what you got. Kill Diablo at level 70 and under one minute and 30 seconds on torment 13 Difficulty Money ain't a thing. T H A N G slay greed on torment 13 difficulty take you there. Reach greater rift level 60 solo power amplification. Use Cane's cube to augment an ancient legendary item with a level 50 plus gem cubic reconfiguration. Use cane's cube to Reforge. A legendary item.
I think I did this type of thing once and I've never gotten back to it so we'll see how it goes. Seasonal conquest feast your eyes on returning seasonal conquest Challenges. Do you have enough fire in your heart to complete them all? So I'm just gonna read you what they are.
Arvis complete a 50 million gold streak while outside of the vault and the inner sanctum avar I think complete a 50 million gold streak while outside of the vault and the inner sanctum in hardcore mode Dynasty reach greater level rift greater rift level 55 solo with the full bonuses of six of the following class sets in hardcore mode. Masters of sets master eight of the following set dungeons in hardcore mode.
Masters of the universe master eight of the following set dungeons. Um, it doesn't say which ones they are unfortunately in any of those Speed racer complete Acts one through four at max level in under one hour in hardcore mode Sprinter complete Acts one through four at max level in under one hour. Superhuman reach Greater rift level 45 solo without any set items equipped in hardcore mode. The thrill reach greater rift level 45 solo without any set items equipped.
Years of war, not gears, years of war reach greater Rift 55 solo with the full bonuses of six of the following class sets. And here's the class sets coming up eventually. Here we go. So this is the Hadrick gift you're gonna get in season 29. So you complete chapters one, two, and five of the senior season journey and you they'll, you'll be rewarded with three of HDR's gifts. Each gift contains a few pieces from one of your class sets.
Players can only unlock one class set in this manner per season across hardcore and non hardcore. Non hardcore . So choose wisely. Uh, the set you receive depends on the class of the character you are playing when you open each hare's gift. To collect a full class set you need to open all three on the same character. Here's what you get for hare's gift in season 29, barbarian will have might of the earth crusader will have thorns of the invoker demon hunter will have the shadows.
Mantle monk will have the monkey king's garb. Necromancer has grace of an aria, which doctor has arraignment of the jade harvester and Wizard has Firebirds finery. I think at least some of these are popular with people. I'm gonna be playing a monk again 'cause I started doing that a while back for reasons and I'm having fun with that so I'll keep going. There's a little bit about the solo self found thing, which honestly is mostly how I play and always have.
I've rarely grouped up with people except in the early days when my husband and I were both playing Diablo three together. I don't think seasons were in there yet, it's that long ago. Um, and I think I've done some, I think I've gotten some help from some people in seasons intermittently, but yeah, so solo self found, which is what a lot of us has been doing anyway, yeah, so these are patch notes. Below you'll find patch notes for the upcoming update to Diablo three,
patch 2.7 0.6. It goes live on September 12. So that's just a few days from now. Kind of um, all changes apply to all versions of Diablo three, including PlayStation four, PlayStation five, Xbox One, Xbox Series X or SS Nintendo Switch and PC unless otherwise indicated. So here's some stuff to know. Alright, demon slayers seeking to up the intensity of their journey through sanctuary can
try out the new solo solo self found mode. In this mode, you'll only have yourself to rely on o to Unre to rely on to overcome the hoards from hell. That's right. It is a single player experience. If you'd like to up the ante even more, a hardcore version of this mode is available. We decided to bring solo self found and officially supported single player mode to Diablo three.
Without the experience bonus for being in a party or other players to protect your back as you carve through demonic legions, this mode will test you to, well I've been doing this for years, you know, uh, to celebrate the accomplishment of those brave enough to roll a character. In this mode, we have also created specific leaderboards for solo self found, which function like those for other modes.
To create a character and solo self found, select the solo hero option in the character creation screen. You'll still be able to play the champion and adventure mode just as you would in other modes, but only the private game option will be available to use. Challenge rifts can be completed with the party while the mode is seasonal.
Solo self found is a solitary journey, so you will be unable to start this mode while in a party or access multiplayer aspects of Diablo four such as trading they have trading Rebirthing is available for solo self. Found these season 29 visions of M Nity theme and other components of patch 2.7 0.6 were designed with solo self found in mind. Please let us know your thoughts. We encourage feedback about your experience. I kind of think this is cool because this is how I play.
I've been playing like this for years. Kind of stopped trying for a while when Diablo four came out, played a little bit of Diablo mortal in and out and a tiny bit of, um, Diablo two resurrected. So solo is how I go mostly I'm playing at weird hours. I'm usually tired. I mean, you know, it's that kind of thing. So here's about season 29 and the visions of okay, the nefarious machinations of the burning hells have permeated every corner of sanctuary warping reality in the process.
This disturbance has given way to visions of enemity pocket dimensions accessed by stepping through diabolical fissures. Nephilim level one or higher have a chance at encountering a diabolical fissure by slaying demons in the open world. Should your smiting of the health spa trigger a fissure press onward into a vision of enmity. What horrors await on the other side are unknown, but these instances are rich in rewards.
The visions are quite unstable and have the potential to produce additional fissures after enemies are dispatched inside. Keep an eye out for these opportunities to maximize your chance of earning useful gear. There are new monster apexes. The apexes are only available in the visions of an ity in in ever rating, creates an area of effect around the monster that reduces the player's movement speed by 65% and cool down reduction by 50%.
If the player is in the vicinity of the monster necrotic, the player's healing is reduced by 65%. Monsters have a damage over time effect that deals 180% of the player's max health over 30 seconds. This effect is removed. If the player is healed above 95%, there is a paragon ceiling. Whereas before you could just plug in as many paragon as your character can
loot, I guess, or, or pick up or earn whatever. Uh, we are introducing changes to the paragon points to work in tandem with solo self found and the season 29 theme. You can now sign a total of 800 paragon points to your solo self found character. Previously you were only able to assign a total of 50 paragon points to each attribute within the core defense offense and utility categories. But now you can assign up to 200 in each attribute.
Each category can only have 200 paragon points placed into them. This change is exclusive to season 29 and applies to all modes. Um, there's a little bit of description here. Developers note. We understand that Paragon was king in terms of character power with the change this season. We wanted to shift that power from main stat grinding to gameplay knowledge and gear hunting. We chose 800 as our initial starting point and would appreciate your feedback on
this cap. There are a few changes within the Paragon system to keep in mind. And it says movement speed. We changed movement speed to a 0.1 25% per point because the old value would've provided players with 100% movement speed, which was too much. Players now have the option to place points into this stat, allowing them to surpass 25% movement speed from item bonuses, area damage, area damage should perform the same if not a bit better,
and with substantial improvements to performance. So that's about that one. Wow. Head also has an article about it. Diablo three season 29 Visions of M Nity launches September 15th. And they mostly have a screenshot here from the Diablo account on x I guess it's called now that literally says hashtag Diablo three season 29 Visions of enmity begins September 15 at 5:00 PM p d or pt. Learn about the seasonal theme, the solo self found, single player mode, Paragon ceiling changes and more.
And it has a link to exactly what I read you just a minute ago. Uh, blizzard watch has an interesting article from Matthew Rossi, who is an incredible writer in my opinion, and probably other people's opinions as well. It's, it's titled, who is An Aria and what role does he play in Diablo four. This was written on August 24th or at least posted then.
It's got a nice picture of an aria right there, all shiny. Um, so I, I will read you a tiny little bit of this like the starting couple paragraphs and if you wanna find out more, there are spoilers after that point. So I'm not gonna read you those spoilers, but if you're interested in this, you can go ahead and read those for yourself. I'll read you the two paragraphs that are above the spoiler alert.
Diablo four has been out for a while now. As such, it feels like a good time to examine an aria. The rebel angel who helped create sanctuary yet has never lavished much love on the people who inhabit his creation. People who descend from him, both figuratively and literally. After all, if not for the most infamous deadbeat dad in Sanctuary's history, humanity as we know it in the game would not exist at all.
But even though Anus plays a key role in Sanctuary's history, he's never actually appeared in a Diablo game before now. So let's talk about who an aria is, how this Archangel became lilith's co-conspirator in the struggle to escape the eternal conflict and what role he plays in Diablo four. There are spoilers after this, so I'm not gonna tell you those but you can read it again. Everything will be in the show notes@shatteredsoulstone.com.
I've got an article here from Icy Veins written by Starr, s t a r y m I think that's how you say it. It's from August 30 and it focuses on the sorcerer spells in Diablo four versus Diablo two resurrected. It's kind of a video in there and I can kind of explain what's going on. They pick a spell and they show you what it looks like in Diablo four, resurrected for the sorcerer, and then they show you in Diablo four and then they pick a different spell and
they keep going that way. It's pretty interesting. You can watch it on YouTube. I'll probably put the YouTube video up. Um, so you can just grab it directly from the source and it's, when I watched this, it looked like Diablo resurrected had the sorc there had a huge amount of power compared to what the SORs has in
Diablo four. There's at least, uh, I think in the Diablo two resurrected thing, I think they set their sorcerers out to fight like the, uh, the cows or whatever, you know, Mo Moo Moo coming out and she could just obliterate them really quick with those spells. But in Diablo four you get not even half as much power it looks like and your spells don't last as long is what I was seeing. So you can check out this video and see what you think about it. Um,
it's kind of interesting, you know, it's just kind of interesting. There's also, uh, patch notes, um, on Maxwell written again by Dr. Site Diablo four patch 1.1 0.4 notes. This was updated today, September 8th, 2023. This was something I didn't even know had happened 'cause I, we had some com I had some computer issues and a hard drive fail recently, so I'm kind of trying to catch up here. So this is what Dred site wrote.
Dred site wrote, let's get that right. Uh, the dev team deployed the Diablo four patch 1.1 0.4 notes today. The patch addresses miscellaneous bugs and small issues in the game. A big change out of nowhere is upping the season blessing earn of aggression from 8% to 20% maxed out. This is a great change for all information. See the notes below. Here are the notes below. Gameplay updates. The total experience bonus from the earn of aggression season Blessing has been increased from 8% to 20%.
Developer's note we increased the total experience bonus of earn of aggression to make the season blessing more impactful and to help players seeking level 100 get there a little faster. Bug fixes accessibility, fixed an issue where the screen reader didn't read enemy names. Well, I guess you wouldn't know what, uh, what enemy you were up against if you needed the screen reader to tell you that
and they didn't put the names in. Yeah, that's a good fix actually. Uh, quests and events fixed an issue where the loath pole arm and strange amulet items from the missing pieces. Quest couldn't be picked up after dropping them and reentering town while mounted. That's a thing. Wow. What a weird, interesting twist of a bug in there. I'm glad they fixed that one. I haven't tried that. Uh, fixed an issue where progression, let me back up.
I did do the part of the quest where you go and get Laura's pole arm from the, uh, armor vendor and he gives you these strange ambulance and you walk back to the stable and give it to him. I did do that, but like I,
I did not encounter this bug 'cause I just recently got 'em out. So yeah, uh, fixed an issue where progression for the remembering the goose quest, oh boy, , there's where the goose is, could be blocked if the player teleported using the town port or exited the game immediately after placing Ish's dagger fixed an issue where progression for the poisoned heart's quest could be blocked if the player left the area in the
middle of an nettas dialogue with Vera . If you didn't wanna hear that, I guess fixed an issue where the retching mass event did not reward gold upon completion. Now I think if it's a retching mass, maybe you deserve a lot of gold for putting up with that. I don't know what that is, but okay.
Miscellaneous fixed an issue where a dialogue option for Crest couldn't display properly fixed an issue where the season journey's completion percentage in the season menu would display the progression percentage of the last few chapter instead of the active chapter. , that's a thing fixed, an issue where the notification stating your inventory is full could appear
unexpectedly fixed. An issue where the credit, where credit could not be, uh, received for completing a malignant tunnels season journey objective if the heart at the end was not captured. Oh, things to know I'm not in the season. I haven't gotten there yet. Uh, fixed an issue where the voiceover lines did not play for the following taunt emotes, here are the emotes. I will end you, you will die. I will rip your soul apart. One just says die and one says prepare for oblivion.
And then there were various visual performance and stability fixes. And so that's what you can expect from patch 1.1 0.4 notes in Diablo four looks like it's the seasonal stuff going on. Um, but that's cool that they fixed some of it. Wow. Head has an article titled No Breaks Between Diablo Four Seasons Planned The Season with Season of Blood Newly announced as the Second Season of Diablo four. The question immediately was posed when does it start?
Thankfully Blizzard was quick to answer the question and season of blood will begin on October 17th. Many players quickly noticed however, that this leaves no break time between season one and season two. In fact, the end of season one is the immediate beginning of season of blood. While some players are concerned that this will lead to seasonal burnout,
others welcome the immediate seasonal shift. One common thread on Reddit, however, is the continued request for a Diablo four p t r to help test seasonal content before it goes live. Much like Diablo three currently has. This would allow players to bug test attempt to theory craft builds and generate hype about seasonal mechanics, but with no downtime in between the seasons. This p t R possibility is looking less and less likely.
And the last thing I have here is from I G N. It was written on September 6th by Wesley Yen Pool and this is the title Diablo four Boss mentions annual expansions as part of live service and under there he writes, destiny is Calling Me. That's a song lyric from somewhere. If you know it, it sounds like Diablo four is set for an for annual expansions based on comments from its chief developer in an interview with Dexo,
which I probably should link to as well. Uh, Diablo four boss, rod Ferguson mentioned quarterly seasons and annual expansions as the focus for the action role-playing games live service quote. When you look at the launch of the game and this first season, we see that as building a foundation on which we can build for the future. Ferguson said. So as we look at our quarterly seasons and we look at our annual expansions, those are the things that we're really focused on for our live service.
We've got plans, we have storylines that go well into the future. We've got plans. We're always leapfrogging our seasons and leapfrogging our expansion. So it's something we are going to do for a long time. We're excited.
There's a video in here of the Diablo four season of Blood Gamescom Trailer Annual expansion supported by quarterly seasons is the live service model employed by Destiny Developer Bungee, which has maintained the popularity of Destiny two, destiny two to a high enough level to support a live service for over six years. Now, Diablo four enjoyed a huge launch in June. We know about that. Let's see, season two dubbed season of blood launches October 17 and adds a vampire hunter
companion called Aris Storywise. Diablo has said, oh, Diablo Blizzard has said Diablo. Four seasons are reserved for quests that take place alongside the main events of the game, leaving expansions to move the plot on from the end. Ever since launch players have tried to work out where the Diablo story will head next based on a number of secret post credits endings that tease the return of one of the series, most infamous vi infamous villains.
And perhaps a new big bad, assuming Diablo four will see an expansion in 2024. Perhaps Blizzard will unveil it at BlizzCon this November. There is a thing mentioned here from Dexter, but I didn't find it. So that's where I'm gonna end the show. It. I don't dunno how long I've been babbling it all of you, but I hope you enjoyed it.
I hope I provided some interesting information for you com. You know, with considering Diablo three and Diablo Ford, whatever else is going on here, and also pointed you toward one of Matt Rossi's really, really good articles. So that's always a good thing to have. And yeah, the d and d thing, if you're still playing d and d, maybe take a look at that. If you go to your game store and see what you think. Um, just depends on your own personal views on the company behind Dungeons and
Dragons and stuff like that. So that's where I'm going to end the show. And, um, we promise not to have another gap between shows, but there was so much construction work going outside near where we live that it just got everywhere and like, I think most of the people around me were coughing up dust. So, um, that's not likely to happen again. So I think we'll be okay from there. You have been listening to episode 4 25 of the Shattered Soul Stone. Your Diablo Community podcast. Missed an episode.
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