"Activision Blizzard employees developing the upcoming dark fantasy action role-playing game “Diablo IV” say it will be hard to meet a June 6, 2023, release date without working significant overtime, in a process they say has been plagued by mismanagement."

Not exactly a holiday release.

That gives them 6 months to get the servers reliably online, if I recall Diablo III correctly...

If you cant change the time line, don't change the scope. This isn't rocket surgery. This late into the project, the scope should be well defined.

I mean, especially in this era of DLC, why the need to increase the scope, anyways? Punt the extra ideas for later release.

I don't think crunch works but trying to define game scope 3 years out doesn't work either.

That's how you get Half Life 3..

That's fine, but then you should aggressively limit scope expansion.