{"id":90349,"date":"2026-09-29T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90349"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:36:46","slug":"the-train-isnt-stopping-diablo-4-director-promises-the-game-will-still-receive-support-well-after-diablo-5-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90349","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Train Isn&#8217;t Stopping&#8217; \u2014 Diablo 4 Director Promises the Game Will Still Receive Support Well After Diablo 5 Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Diablo 4 director Brent Gibson is telling fans not to worry about the game after Diablo 5\u2019s announcement sparked concerns about the former title\u2019s lifespan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/diablo-5-announced-release-date-2029\">Diablo 5\u2019s reveal<\/a> at Blizzcon 2026 left fans equal parts excited and worried. Of course, players were pumped for a new Diablo game \u2014 but with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/diablo-iv\">Diablo 4<\/a> having just launched in 2023, the reveal of a new game so soon felt like a death knell for the one they were still playing.<\/p>\n<p>But Brent Gibson, director of Diablo 4, says there\u2019s nothing to fuss about. Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icy-veins.com\/d4\/news\/diablo-4-players-will-keep-getting-seasons-even-after-diablo-5-launches\/\">Icy Veins<\/a>, Gibson outlined some plans for the game\u2019s future content, saying it will continue to receive support well after 5\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"diablo-dawn-of-hatred-1-preview-gallery\" data-value=\"diablo-dawn-of-hatred-1-preview-gallery\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>\u201cI have an analogy,\u201d he began. \u201cIf you\u2019re wearing a sign in the middle of Times Square saying, \u2018The end is nigh,\u2019 the end is not nigh. We have a lot coming. We have [the] Amazon [class] coming down the road. The train isn\u2019t stopping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things I love about our world is we are not a series of games. We are a universe. We are even adding to Diablo 2 with the Warlock. It\u2019s one of the few franchises where<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 4 director Brent Gibson is telling fans not to worry about the game after Diablo 5\u2019s announcement sparked concerns about the former title\u2019s lifespan. Diablo 5\u2019s reveal at Blizzcon 2026 left fans equal parts excited and worried. Of course, players were pumped for a new Diablo game \u2014 but with Diablo 4 having just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":90351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90353,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90349\/revisions\/90353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}