The former will let you team up with players on other platforms, while the latter will allow you to swap between PC and console versions and keep your character and loot. But can each gaming ecosystem cooperate with others, and can players double (or triple) dip without losing progress? Well, “yes” and “yes,” but there are a few things you need to know about the game’s cross-play and cross-progression systems.Īs with the Open Beta, Diablo 4 will support cross-play and cross-progression at launch. Now that Diablo on consoles is an established norm, Diablo 4 is releasing on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One.

However, Diablo 3 and the Diablo 2 remake both showed that Diablo can actually work on controllers and consoles. Early attempts to port the series to consoles were…mixed. 'Instead, we replaced it by just being way more generous with stuff so people don't miss that.'įor more news about Diablo III and the rest of Blizzard's games, read everything you need to know about Blizzcon 2014.The Diablo franchise started its life on the PC. 'On the PC side, given the history of it and the auction house and all that, we took out trading of the most powerful items, Legendaries, unless the other player was there when it dropped,' he said. However, Martens says that console players also have advantages that PC players don't, like the ability to gift rare items to friends. That's a great example for something that doesn't work for consoles.' 'For seasonal conquests and things to be what they are, everyone has to be playing on the same leveled field. 'Seasons requires always online, and that's one of the major differences in the ecosystems there,' Martens said. The console ecosystem, Martens explained, also prevents Blizzard from giving Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players Seasons, a new feature introduced on PC in Patch 2.1, which lets players level up a character during a limited time to win special rewards. What the Xbox and PlayStation networks do is different than what does.' I'm trying to give you the most definitive, least PR answer there is, and that is no, we can't do that. We didn't build it that way, so the two ecosystems are closed. In regards to cross-platform play, Diablo III Lead Designer Kevin Martens told GameSpot that it's 'definitely not possible at this point with this game. You'll never be able to play Diablo III with friends across different platforms, and console players won't get the PC's Seasons content, Blizzard has said.

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