by Stacy Jones on Mar 12, 2012
Its never fun to hear that a feature youve been looking forward to gets cut from a game at release, but thats what happened to the PvP Arena system for Diablo III. Blizzard has announced that the feature has not quite reached the level of polish they had hoped, prompting the developer to cut it from launch.
The decision was made to avoid another launch delay and add the feature in an update post-launch. On the flipside, the PvE content is nearly complete.
As were counting down the days until were ready to announce a release date for Diablo III, weve come to realize that the PvP game and systems arent yet living up to our standards. Today, we wanted to let you know that weve made the difficult decision to hold back the PvP Arena system and release it in a patch following the games launch. After a lot of consideration and discussion, we ultimately felt that delaying the whole game purely for PvP would just be punishing to everyone whos waiting to enjoy the campaign and core solo/co-op content, all of which is just about complete.
Source: Diablo III PvP Update