"However these modifications and other opportunities to enhance the experience of gamers will not be implemented within the 2021 timeline we previously announced D2R ladder items," Blizzard says. "So the game is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2022. This will enable us to make significant improvements to the game in general."

Blizzard will then outline the changes being made in the next game. Regarding PvE, Diablo Immortal will gain new raids with eight players, and changing the game's Bounty system, and making Challenge Rifts more rewarding.

In the realm of PvP, Blizzard will be tweaking different aspects of the game's Battlegrounds system, as in addition to its faction-based Cycle of Strife. General changes to the game's progression system, such as those of the Paragon system, and the weekly caps on XP will also be forthcoming.

Although Diablo Immortal will no longer be released until 2021. The Remastered Diablo 2: Resurrected is scheduled to launch on September 23rd on the PC and console. Diablo 4 remains in development and doesn't currently have an official release date.

Diablo Immortal's delay is amidst Blizzard having to deal with the aftermath from the State of California lawsuit that claims Activision Blizzard fosters a culture in which harassment and sexual discrimination are all too frequent. Responding to Activision Blizzard statements that CEO Bobby Kotick later said were "tone deaf,""

Many former and current Blizzard employees have signed an open letter calling for changes and even went so far to organize a walkout. In light of the allegations in the lawsuit cheap d2r items, Blizzard president J. Allen Brack announced that he would quit the company.