# Diablo 4, cross-platform, now in beta

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** video-games-e-games\
**Created:** [March 25, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-4-cross-platform-now-in-beta/981620 "2023-03-25T01:36:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-4-cross-platform-now-in-beta/981620/601 "2025-12-24T17:40:20Z")

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Oh wow, yeah, that’s **massively** different.

I remember my PoE main could go into a zone and just drop totems and summons that melted everything. But all the planning and building was the big job. The sequel sounds like a very different game. Different enough to be intriguing.

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**Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-4-cross-platform-now-in-beta/981620/602 "2025-12-24T17:57:07Z")

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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> Oh wow, yeah, that’s **massively** different.

Yeah, it’s not a bad game by any stretch, just very different. During early access it’s not (yet) free to play, but they occasionally have free weekends — think you just missed the last one by a couple of weeks.

When the game launches for real, it will be free to play again (with paid cosmetics, as in PoE1).

The campaign isn’t finished yet (not all acts are in yet) and not all classes are available yet, but it’s still a good 20+ hours of gameplay already.

It’s probably worth checking out at some point, if only for the novel gameplay.

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**Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-4-cross-platform-now-in-beta/981620/603 "2025-12-30T16:07:59Z")

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This was a slightly amusing demo of just hows soulslike PoE2 is (and how different it is from PoE1 and D4): A player just beat one of the end-game bosses with no gear or potions at all, just some skills and a lot of dodge-rolling: [None of us are at good at action RPGs as the Path of Exile 2 player who beat one of its toughest bosses without any gear: 'What did I just witness?' | PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/none-of-us-are-at-good-at-action-rpgs-as-the-path-of-exile-2-player-who-beat-one-of-its-toughest-bosses-without-any-gear-what-did-i-just-witness/)

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**Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-4-cross-platform-now-in-beta/981620/604 "2025-12-30T17:49:05Z")

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I’m afraid to watch that video.  
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