The Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred launch has been delayed
@faience
Diablo 4’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, was due to launch today, October 7, at 4pm pacific alongside Season 6, but Adam Fletcher (otherwise known as PezRadar, Diablo’s Global Director of Community) says the launch is delayed due to a “small technical issue.” Frankly, it wouldn’t be a Diablo 4 launch without some kind of technical problem, but we don’t have a specific time when the expansion will go live — though Adam called it a small delay, so perhaps it won’t be too much longer.
Here’s what he had to say on the matter:
We have some late breaking news for our launch for Vessel of Hatred.
We are looking at a small delay for launch due to a small technical issue on our end. We are still expecting Vessel of Hatred to launch this evening, but we will need some additional time to ensure we have every player start at the exact same time across all platforms.
At 4pm PDT, we will begin locking out new logins for Diablo IV. Players already logged in prior to 4pm PDT will still be in-game on Patch 1.5.2, but they should expect to lose connection to the game over time while we do additional work to get the simultaneous launch prepared.
We apologize for the late breaking news on the time shift, but this is an important step we need to make to ensure every player can start their journey through Nahantu together.
We will be providing updates in this thread as they become available.
Steam players should be able to download the latest patch now, and I can confirm that my PlayStation download just started (though it says it’s a three hour download, so I’m not optimistic about my playtime tonight). If you attempt to login and see a license error, don’t worry about your game: this is a server-side error and doesn’t mean that there’s an actual problem with your license. We saw the same when Diablo 4 first launched, and while it is indicative of server issues it’s nothing to panic about.
In the meantime, I’ll be updating this post as we know more, so stay tuned.
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