Diablo 4 developers have reportedly said it's going to be hard to hit the game's release date without extensive crunch, citing lengthy periods of mismanagement.
, rewrote the game’s script when he joined the team in 2019, adding “disturbing” sub-plots about sexual assault.
According to the article, one version of this script was referred to as the “rape version”, because it repeatedly referred to the rape of one of the game’s female love interest, and referred to her as “the raped woman” in her character description. Employees reportedly had to plead with Blizzard leadership to change Stępień’s version of the story, and would reportedly repeat a line from the script, “and then she was raped, brutally”, out loud to each other in disbelief.
One former employee told the Post: “Rape has no place in the Diablo universe. It’s not a thing that we should be tackling because it takes a certain amount of nuance and a deft hand.” A Blizzard spokesperson told the Post that the story was “floated more than three years ago under different leadership as character backstory, not game content”, and that “at that time, it was deemed inappropriate, and we went in a different direction”.
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