Oh no, Diablo IV will make you create a new character for each season

I have yet to dive in Diablo IVeven as my coworkers are raving about itbut I’m starting to think I never will now that I know you apparently have to create a new character every season to participate in their battle passes.

This was confirmed by producer Rod Fergusson on Twitter (thank you, pc gamer), where he explained that new seasons require new characters, so you won’t be able to use the one you played in the main game when playing seasonal content like Blizzard. describes in a blog post on his website“additional gameplay features, quest lines (with old and new faces alike), battle passes, legendary items, class balance changes, quality of life improvements, and much more.”

As some fans and PC Gamer point out, this is similar to the way content updates have worked in the Devil series before (as Diablo III‘s seasons), and participating in the seasonal content does not erase your original character from existence. But I tend to get very attached to the player characters I make, and having to put them on a shelf to make another character goes against my RPG sensibilities. Hell, having a character creator is one of the biggest selling points of a game for me, and I spend a lot of time painstakingly creating a guy who looks like me so I can feel like I’m existing in a new world. So if you also get too attached to your player character and want to play a full game as him, keep in mind that Diablo IV it has strict rules that prevent it.

All this comes at a time when Diablo IV Players are criticizing the game’s lengthy grind for XP, which some argue is one of the biggest problems with creating new characters. At the moment, the XP the game gives you is considered by some to be insufficient, and Blizzard hasn’t helped nerf things like the elite monster spawns that players were fighting to level up. The company has said so. plans to implement some changes on this fronthowever, starting with increasing XP production in Nightmare Dungeons and simplifying the process to travel to them.

While this configuration might not come as a surprise to Devil Veterans, it’s good knowledge for newbies and would-be players to get into the game, especially when you’re deciding whether you want to spend $10 on the battle pass (or $25 on the premium pass that allows you to skip some levels and get a cosmetic of season ). Diablo IVThe first season of will begin in July.