Diablo 4players have been getting hounded by a repetitive in-game message that indicates cross network play being enabled, and the notifications seem to be growing even more frequent. Blizzard’s dungeon-crawling action RPGDiablo 4has been a major hit as it approaches its first season later this month. Even though fans are eager for the new content, there are many who still remain frustrated over the game’s ongoing headaches.
Like many other online RPGs or MMOs,Diablo 4features a notification feed on the bottom right side of the screen, which keeps players up to date on recent happenings in their surroundings, such as NPC dialogue or actions of other nearby players. In the past weeks, some fans have beenmemeing a specificDiablo 4messagethat keeps relentlessly popping up in players' message boxes. The bright yellow message lets players know that they have cross network play enabled, even when they’ve turned the option off. While seemingly harmless at first, the message can become annoying and even distracting to a lot of players as it continues to repeatedly fill up the message box.
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On Reddit, Daidot_007 posted a short 10-second clip to theDiablo 4subreddit of them scrolling through their in-game message feed. Of the 23 messages shown in the clip, 11 of them are the infamous yellow cross network enabled message, often appearing twice or three times in a row. Important information like player actions and dialogue ofDiablo 4’s NPCsare completely lost in the unrelenting sea of crossplay messages.
It’s clear that there’s some sort of bug or network issue that’s causing this widespread headache forDiablo 4players. Some players under the post also report that the message is often accompanied by rubber-banding, a more significant problem that sees the player character jolting forward due to lag. Another player questioned why the message even needs to exist in the first place, as the meat of the game’s player-to-player interactions are friendly co-op moments where PC users wouldn’t have any sort of advantage over console users, even in theFields of Hatred PvP zones.
WithDiablo 4’s first season of new content on the horizon, players are wondering if this nuisance will be addressed by Blizzard anytime soon. Since there has yet to be any sort of official acknowledgment of the issue by Blizzard and the frequency of the messages seems to be getting worse, players are growing increasingly concerned. Along with exciting new items and gameplay features,Season of the Malignantis sure to also bring many fixes and improvements toDiablo 4; hopefully, one of these fixes will see the end of this crossplay message spam.
Diablo 4is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.
