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Jennifer Young

It may well be cool to like Diablo 4 again, but it couldn't have launched like this — and that's ok

Diablo 4.

It's official, Diablo 4 is back on the menu when it comes to positive press. Following wave after wave of headline variations on "Diablo 4 is actually good now" I'm now just waiting for the hilarious D4 Bad Radio to change its name and bring out a glowing AI country bop about how much we all love the new Helltide. 

I'm over the moon that so many people are now enjoying Diablo 4 again, especially given its recent addition to the Xbox Game Pass library. The reception for Season 4, Loot Reborn, is a testament to everything the developers have learned and implemented in the year since the huge launch. However, I've seen a lot of "this is how Diablo 4 should have launched" which I find a reductive statement, and I'd argue it could never have launched this way, and neither should we have expected it to. Diablo 4 might be 'good' now, but it had to learn to be this way. 

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