According to a report from D2R Items a recent Activision Blizzard earnings call. This delay comes amid ongoing discrimination and sexual harassment cases and investigations by Activision Blizzard. Diablo IV recently acquired the game's new director Joe Shely, who previously served as a director of design for Diablo in the wake of former Game Director Luis Barriga's departure from Blizzard.
Diablo: Resurrected will bring the classic action RPG from Blizzard's year 2000 to the present day as it comes out later this month, featuring updated visuals and small quality-of-life changes. What it doesn't include in the beginning, however will be new content but that's something that might come down the line according to a fresh developer interview.
As part of a collective news interview (via Windows Central), Vicarious Visions studio design director Rob Gallerani and project lead Michael Bukowski discussed the creation of Diablo: Resurrected and also touched on what the future could hold. Gallerani said the team is focused on getting the core game right first but added that there are plenty of possibilities that could be developed in the future.
"We wanted to lay an extremely solid foundation prior to when we even started discussing the fourth and third floors in this building," Gallerani stated. "If we didn't know the game's fundamental elements whatever else we did would have been irrelevant.
[...]We certainly have plenty of ideas, but for moment we're waiting to make sure we've got the basic game correct. [...] It will be interesting to D2R Ladder Items Buy determine once the game is live how we deal with new runewords, new items, rebalancing, things like that."
