With Diablo 4, Blizzard just can’t get a gameplay leak from the beta online. Since the evening of October 19th about 5 hours of gameplay can be seen on a French filesharing site. The gameplay is still online. With Russian and Chinese interface menus, users show what is actually strictly confidential material.
What’s going on in Diablo 4?
First beta testers can probably already play Diablo 4 – breaking their confidentiality to praise the game
Leak to Diablo 4 has already generated almost 50,000 downloads
What is this gameplay? The gameplay is on the gofile.io website and includes 4.8 gigabytes of data: There are 4 videos with the heading “Diablo 4 Beta Live” (via gofile.io).
It’s raw gameplay without big cuts: the interface has Chinese and Russian characters.
According to the site, one of the files has already been downloaded over 18,000 times — it’s not known how many times the video has been viewed live on the site. In total, the gameplay leaks are said to have been downloaded more than 48,000 times.
What is the problem? VOn other sources such as Twitter, Twitch or YouTube, Blizzard can easily delete this content via copyright strike. At reddit, moderators are out to remove leaked gameplay.
But Gofile-io is, according to its own statements, a “free and anonymous platform for sharing data”.
According to the conditions of the websites, the uploaded material is actually against the guidelines (via gofile.io). The company is based in France – but for some reason Blizzard doesn’t seem to have taken action against the leak yet.
How is gameplay discussed? In general, Diablo 4 is currently being praised. A user who viewed the gameplay says (via reddit):
However, the user also criticizes that the skill system’s damage is based on the weapons and that there are no rune words.
In addition, it often looks as if so many rare items are dropping that players don’t even pick them up.
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