Blizzard’s Diablo 4 Season 1 moment of reckoning livestream is today – watch it here

As promised, Blizzard is moving quickly to respond to the onslaught of negativity currently surrounding Diablo 4 following the release of Patch 1.1, which kicked off Season of the Malignant.

The patch has been almost universally criticized by players for lowering XP gain rates, nerfing all classes, making certain crucial stats useless, and introducing changes that many believe slow down the game unnecessarily.

While Blizzard has already backtracked on one change and fixed a bug that players thought was intentional, most of the changes in 1.1 remain untouched.

Which brings us to today’s live stream. Blizzard is introducing a new, less formal Campfire Chat episode today, which will specifically explain the intent behind all of those changes and discuss feedback from the community.

“We wanted to take the opportunity to address those comments directly during our Season of the Malignant Campfire chat,” the developer promised.

The show takes place today, July 21 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm BST. It will feature Game Director Joe Shely, Associate Game Director Joseph Piepiora, and Diablo Community Leader Adam Fletcher.

You can follow the official Diablo news Twitch and Youtube channels, and we’ve embedded the Twitch player below.

As well as addressing the community response to patch 1.1, the developer will also touch on what’s coming soon to the game, though we hope it will include reversals of some of the new stuff introduced by the patch.

If the unusually long wait times following the season launch last night prevented you from playing, you might want to make sure you perform this crucial step before starting a season character. It will save you a lot of time and set you up nicely for a good head start.