“While we are still planning to deliver substantial amount of content from Blizzard next year, we are now planning for a later launch for Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV than originally envisaged,” announced Activision Blizzard. However, the new announcement suggest that neither will be out until at least 2023. The Blizzard official went on to say that due to “ higher voluntary turnover” and “ the departure of a number of individuals across the company,” the studio war forced to delay Diablo IV and Overwatch 2.Īs we’ve already mentioned, both games were in development without an exact launch date, but Blizzard did hint at a 2022 release window. It’s unclear if these departures have forced the development team to reboot both projects, but they surely contributed to these delays.ĭuring Activision Blizzard’s third-quarter earnings call, an executive said that “ as we have worked with new leadership in Blizzard and within the franchises themselves, particularly in certain key creative roles, it has become apparent that some of the Blizzard content planned for next year will benefit from more development time to reach its full potential.” Today, the US developer revealed that it needs more time to finish the projects, so both games have been delayed indefinitely.Įarly this year, both games lost their directors, Luis Barriga who oversaw the Diablo IV development, and Jeff Kaplan, Overwatch 2’s director. Although neither game had release dates, Blizzard said early this year that they will not be coming out in 2021. The troubled development cycle of Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 doesn’t seem to come to an end.
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