Back in March, Blizzard confirmed ahead of launch that Diablo 4 wasn't coming to Xbox Game Pass, but the ongoing ActiBlizz deal has continued to stir speculation about its eventual arrival. That speculation came to another infliction point this week when a Brazilian digital retailer listed Diablo 4 as an Xbox Game Pass title, but the dev team has once again confirmed that the game isn't coming to Microsoft's subscription service, for now.
Mike Ybarra, President of Blizzard Entertainment, revealed that the listing was incorrect in a reply to Game Pass Tracker on Twitter. Ybarra didn't mince his words when letting us all know that Diablo 4 on Game Pass isn't in the pipeline:
Of course, if and when the Xbox Activision Blizzard deal goes ahead, it's expected that titles like Diablo 4 would come to Game Pass. However, library additions such as Diablo 4, or even the deal going through at all, are by no means confirmed at this stage.
For what it's worth, Diablo 4 is probably worth a purchase if you're on the fence about picking up Blizzard's latest action RPG. We scored it an impressive 9/10 in our Pure Xbox review, and critics across the board have been very impressed with the title so far.
Did you buy Diablo 4 or are you waiting for a potential Game Pass release in future? Let us know!
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That's fine. I'm in no rush to pay $70 for an online only, battle pass and microtranction filled, game anyway. I'm happy to wait for a significant price drop. 😊
Even if the acquisition closed tomorrow, chances are it would take between 3 and 4 months for ABK games to start being added into GP, and they would not all be added at once. We saw the same with ZeniMax, not all games got added overnight, nor at once.
I'm in no rush to play this, my backlog is huge, but anyone that still is holding up thinking it will make it into GP soon, should just buy it unless they are OK waiting potentially until late fall.
FTC lost! The Pi was denied!
"This is not happening." Yes, you are correct. Me buying this game for $70 is not happening. When Microsoft acquires you, and they say it's happening, I'll play it on Game Pass. Until then, bye.
@BBB Doesn't matter if you can ignore them. I don't support games with microtransactions or battle passes. Same reason I canceled my preorder for the Halo Infinite campaign. Multiplayer having both.
There's are plenty of other great games for me to buy that don't include these while I wait for the price to drop. 😊
Indeed, wonder what will happen since Mike Ybarra said no!
WE HAVE THE DECISION!
FTC LOST! Microsoft-ABK can close!
https://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/status/1678781300080259075
@Kaloudz I never thought I’d ever look forward to seeing more news regarding the Activision buyout but since it was rumoured that a decision could be made last week, which obviously never materialised…..as I was typing this I just saw other people’s posts that a decision has been made and that the FTC has lost! Yes get in there!
Surely now this merger is practically guaranteed to go ahead, even Diablo 4 will be added to Game Pass once everything is official, regardless of what has been said?
An always online title is tailor made for game pass. Customers aren’t saddled with dead weight should the servers go down but the continued sub means continued engagement,
@BBB The devs themselves pretty much admitted that leaderboards and QoL fixes will be fleshed out by Season 3 roughly and that would be 9 months minimum away. They’re even floating the idea now of season characters not having to restart over every time due to player discomfort with the current system being so slow and unsatisfying.
So, I’d say he’s being wise waiting for it to hit Gamepass whenever as the current end game is pretty abysmal and boring. Nice launch for a Diablo game but it’s like they learnt nothing over the last 10 years from D3.
p.s I’m new by the way, hello!
@BBB Ah, thanks for clearing that up about the rebirth system. That makes more sense now.
Definitely will improve for sure, that’s the hope. I remember D3’s launch. It was pretty bad compared to D4’s. I foresee that within the timeframe of them releasing the next expansion (like with D3’s Reaper of Souls) we’ll be looking at a whole different game, hopefully a much more improved one.
I foresee therefore maybe when that first expansion comes out maybe the base game will come to Gamepass but not the expansion content.
Considering the recent ruling on the FTC it sounds like this will be showing up before long. Honestly that is what I am banking on, because I don't want to purchase a live services game I could get with a subscription.
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