Publisher Blizzard has pulled a trailer for Diablo 4's imminent Season of Blood (launching 17th October) after players pointed out a few glaring issues, a prime example of why you should never show your mathematical workings. Ostensibly meant to build excitement, the live service's laser-focused community quickly tore into its inconsistencies.
Youtuber Raxxanterax breaks down the issues in the above video. They include incorrectly labelled dungeon maps, a comparison of relative horse speed that appears to depict no discernable difference, and a snowballing series of mathematical blunders meant to illustrate how XP gains have been boosted.

Raxxanterax offered some constructive feedback for publisher Activision Blizzard and even offered to help out next time (through tears of laughter), stating: "Blizzard, I’m trying to build some hype for the season, but you’re making it real hard. BlizzCon’s coming up; if you want to send me the slides ahead of time, give me an NDA to double-check."
Microsoft's monstrous $69 billion buyout of Activision Blizzard was finalised on the same inauspicious day the trailer was published, on Friday, 13th October. Perhaps everyone at the company was keen to get down to the pub and celebrate, or it could be that the errors were caused by some sinister cosmic entity, one that chose that particular date to strike; we'll let you decide.
Are you looking forward to Diablo 4's Season of Blood, despite Blizzard's best efforts? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Lol Microsoft will inherit this mess now.
Gotta admit, he has a really contagious laugh lol
And Blizzard is just dropping the ball lately
That is probably a summary of the whole situation with Diablo 4. There is just absolutely no sign of the meticulous and thoughtful personality that made Blizzard so successful in the past. Just a bunch of amateurs meddling with an old recipe.
If they can't calculate basic math no wonder resistances, bonus XP and everything else is not working as intended in Diablo 4.
I remember when diablo 2 launched on the pc and it had its own fair share of issues to start with but everything worked out good in the end and its one of the best arpg's ever. Diablo 3 followed the same route with even more problems and that real money auction house debacle but again everything worked out fine and dandy and has become one of the best arp's out there. Lets not forget other games that have had problems in the same genre (grimdawn,path of exile,the torchlight series etc,etc.) So its not just a blizzard thing really. I'm sure that diablo 4 will work out just fine too eventually and even with the issues i'm still having a blast with the game.
@Northern_munkey I guess people are less accepting in 23 of games releasing notfinished/buggy or whatever. It’s taking gamers a long time to catch up with this issue.
But for a company the size of blizzard who is now into its 4th Diablo, gamers should be expecting it to have way less issues than what it has had since release.
Diablo 4 is a mistake.
They managed to fix Diablo 3, but I doubt they can do it with 4.
@Zuljaras what would need fixing, Outside of Season 2 patch?
I would guess you would post same comment if it was beggining to Diablo 3, that they can't fix it.
@REALAIS Diablo 4 fix would be to delete the game
But you are right about the start of Diablo 3.
Still, they make so many changes to the game with patches that you start wondering if they had a plan at the start at all. This is the curse with always online games. You play a service NOT a game.
@Zuljaras Diablo yeah, D4 bad. Just delete and never look back.
Its not the curse, thats how game stays relevant for much longer time. And as bad it is, getting real data from players playing game on massive scale is best way to understand what needs work with such games. D4 was released not fully ready, and S2 patch shows it. Now it will be decent start.
Diablo 4 was 40 hours fun. Now every another hour is pain. And if you ask why? than let's say D1,2and3 is out for dozen of years, I have 2000+ hours on each and still didn't found everything (items) D4 is out 3 months or so and I have feeling I've got everything...
There was a moment when I was thinking should I get Diablo 4 to try out, or wait and try Baldur's Gate 3.
I'm so glad I waited, as I might have been put off trying BG3 if I'd played Diablo 4 first 😬
How do these seasons actually work anyway, isn't this just the kind of thing that feels tacked on? The game has a story with a beginning, middle and end, right? This isn't like DLC is it? Is it just new items and XP? But what use are items and XP if you've already played the game through?
@djlard I would assume you havent seen any of Uber Uniques. Not even saying that now almost all regular Uniques aswell are reworked more or less.
@Ravix it is all about fantasy.
On regular you play Campaign. It has solid story, probably not full price worth.
Once you have done that, you can jump in seasons. Seasons usually you start by skipping campaign. Seasons have their own story, it is significantly less in cutscene and missions, but it gives new backstory.
Game has 5 classes. Each class has mtiple viable builds/playstyles. Seasons gives option to play different class/playstayle everytime + adds some type of new mechanic which makes game more fun/difficult.
Such games in general is not about to build tour character endlessly, this is not regular MMO. ARPG stays "fresh" by changing things more or less in each season.
But like always, that is not game for everyone. And to try it out by buying game, it can bring disappointment, if you would not enjoy such game cycle.
I wonder if they employ children. This would be a disaster even internally for anyone who made all those errors.
If I had made this trailer I'd quit on the spot out of embarrassment-.-'
@REALAIS I'll try it someday again... maybe next year.
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