Blizzard has suggested Diablo III's highly-praised Seasons feature could soon make the leap from PC to consoles - and that's just one of several improvements the developer has to continue improving the game across the board.

“ Seasons aren’t really about the leaderboard, but having a fresh start, experiencing the game again and feeling like you’re part of a larger community than yourself.

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“ When we try to incorporate PvP, when we made more effort on that, PvE suffered I think.

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For those not in the know, Seasons are essentially Diablo III's version of the Ladders found in the previous installment in the franchise. They enable you to create a new Seasonal Hero and take them through the game from a fresh starting point, in a bid to accrue as much loot and gold as possible within a set time period, before everything is rolled back into your main non-Seasonal character once the Season concludes.Up until now, Seasons have only been available on the PC version of the game, meaning PS4 and Xbox One players have had to make do with Adventure Mode and other offerings. Ostensibly this was because the consoles don't have to be online all the time and their communities are more fragmented, meaning the design pillars on which Seasons are built wouldn't translate well. Now, however, as we approach the start of Season 4 on PC, it seems Blizzard may be having a rethink.The news comes ahead of the upcoming Patch 2.3 , which is set to add a heap of new content to the game in the shape of an all-new zone taking place in a frozen land that once belonged to the Barbarians called the Ruins of Sescheron, and the game-changing Kanai's Cube. This relic, a spiritual successor to the Horadric Cube, allows players to break down Legendary items and use their special effects as passive skills, with you able to take one weapon or offhand power, one armour power and one jewelry power.The addition of all this content is to supplement what's being referred to as the 'Season Journey', which will currently only be available on PC - at least until Seasons appear on console. The whole aim is to offer some direction for those who hit level 70 or complete a class set and find themselves at a loss over what to do next. As senior technical game designer Wyatt Cheng explains, the Season Journey "gives you some objective. They’re kind of things you thought about doing anyway like finish the game, unlock all the crafting recipes, extract 10 legendary powers using Kunai’s Cube. These are all things that if you kept playing you’d probably do anyway, but here we’re going to recognise these goals and give you cosmetic rewards. There’s a portrait frame themed after the ruins of Sescheron and you’l be able to equip up to five variants that look increasingly awesome depending how much of the journey you’ve accomplished."As you can probably tell, the focus in this patch is very much on the PvE front, as it has been for some time. Does this mean in the future we should hope for some announcements about the PvP side of the game many players have been expecting since launch? According to Cheng, it'd be a bad idea for anyone to get their hopes up.With talk of Seasons coming to console and heaps of ideas that didn't quite make it into this patch, you'd be forgiven for beginning to wonder whether or not some things were being held back for another expansion, something we've definitely heard mutterings about thanks to a new job listing on Blizzard's site . When such an idea is put to the duo, Foote becomes surprisingly evasive."We’ve always been thinking about making sure Diablo has a strong legacy and what amazing features we could have in the game. I think we’ve shown since the beginning of Reaper of Souls It's been a long and sometimes bumpy road for Diablo III since it launched way back in May 2012 but if the most recent content additions are anything to go by, one thing's clear - the Beast is back, and it's definitely not going anywhere in a hurry.

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