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Diablo General Manager Rod Fergusson confirmed there are no plans to include Diablo 4 on Microsoft's Game Pass.

If you hoped for Diablo 4 to be on Microsoft's Game Pass, we've got some bad news for you! Diablo General Manager Rod Fergusson just confirmed via Twitter they have no plans for that.

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Disappointing....the price tag of the game is too high.....i am assuming it has 100+ hours of content and i do mean different content, not 100+ hours of the same damn thing.

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Its Diablo, the franchise that helped make grinding the same thing for dozens if not hundreds of hours feasible in games. AAA story driven games offer 20 hours of gameplay. Otherwise you grind on games that derive or borrow from WoW. If you are disappointed in the cost of a 12 year sequel to the grinding powerhouse franchise of Diablo then I don't know what you are looking for. I guess inflation is a *filtered*? Game Pass isn't what a highly anticipated game like D4 is being marketed for. Sure the exposure and access would be greater, especially with the console market, but Blizzard hasn't exactly been cutting edge or innovative for the last couple decades. Not to mention Microsoft's cross platform capabilities are severely underdeveloped.

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11 minutes ago, wetsocks said:

Its Diablo, the franchise that helped make grinding the same thing for dozens if not hundreds of hours feasible in games. AAA story driven games offer 20 hours of gameplay. Otherwise you grind on games that derive or borrow from WoW. If you are disappointed in the cost of a 12 year sequel to the grinding powerhouse franchise of Diablo then I don't know what you are looking for. I guess inflation is a *filtered*? Game Pass isn't what a highly anticipated game like D4 is being marketed for. Sure the exposure and access would be greater, especially with the console market, but Blizzard hasn't exactly been cutting edge or innovative for the last couple decades. Not to mention Microsoft's cross platform capabilities are severely underdeveloped.

& WoW is derived from Everquest, even co produced by Everquest players.

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On 3/14/2023 at 10:58 AM, wetsocks said:

Not to mention Microsoft's cross platform capabilities are severely underdeveloped.

Exactly what do you mean by this? Me and my friends have been crossplaying together for years with half of us on the Xbox and the other half on pc without any problems. No connection issues or anything like that and almost every multiplayer game we wanted to do was capable of cross platform play. If anything, I'd say Microsoft's cross platform capabilities are better than ever.

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