If you were looking forward to engaging in some player versus player action in Diablo III, it appears as if you will have to wait while Blizzard works out some of the mode’s kinks.

A blog post from Blizzard Entertainment’s game director Jay Wilson detailed reasons why PvP mode has been scrapped from Diablo III for the time being until it can be properly refined to meet the company’s standards.

Wilson wrote: “In continuing to develop this mode, playtest it, and put it in front of other developers within the company, we've found that it falls short of our expectations for a high-quality Blizzard experience.”

He continued by describing issues with the mode’s depth: “Simply fighting each other with no other objectives or choices to make gets old relatively quickly," Wilson said. "We've brought a lot of people in to try out Team Deathmatch and, while some found it entertaining, most of our testers didn't feel like it was something they'd want to do beyond a few hours. Without more varied objectives, or very lucrative rewards, few saw our current iteration as something they'd want spend a lot of time in.”

Wilson also described issues with class balance and what’s next for Diablo III in his blog post, which you can read in its entirety by clicking here.

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