While we’re patiently waiting for Diablo IV to emerge from the fiery pits of hell, we’re bound to get tons of leaks. The latest revolves around some screenshots that appeared that were just as swiftly removed. Before someone took them down, the images appeared to suggest that you can skip the entire campaign.
The Diablo IV leak first appeared on an Imgur post before being shared as a tweet on Twitter. If you head there now, you’ll see two things. On the former, you’ll notice that it’s a 404 page error, while the latter shows the feed with the media removed. It’s clear that Activision Blizzard wasn’t too happy with the leaked screenshots.
Fortunately, while the images and post may have vanished on the websites, it still remains on Google and search engines until they reindex the sites. I was able to find those images before the pages were crawled again, albeit in low definition and small sizes.
It isn’t exactly clear why anyone thought these screenshots revealed that you can skip campaigns. Yet, let’s delve into this idea for a second. Diablo III let you skip the campaign completely and go into Adventure mode if you’ve already played the story once. However, you need to play the story with every class to see each one’s ending.
If you’ve played Diablo III as long as I have, you’ll know that skipping the campaign isn’t exactly a new thing. Perhaps what the leak means is that once you complete the story with one class, you won’t need to do so with another class. But then, how would you level up and unlock all the skills for those new characters? Also, it kind of takes away the fun of playing it again.
I don’t know about you, but I’ll still play the campaign even if Diablo IV lets us skip it from the start. The story is the main essence of the series, and I want to know what happens next. Maybe this is Activision’s way of making sure we spend money on microtransactions as quickly as possible, as we see happening in the Call of Duty series. The story mode is there, but you don’t have to play it if you don’t want to. Instead, go ahead and spend money on the multiplayer section and make us richer than we already are.
Let’s wait and see what the next leak is that Blizzard will scramble to clear before it’s too late.
