Diablo 4’s expansionVessel of Hatredreleased earlier today, welcoming a record number of Steam players in the process.

Earlier today, the all-time Steam player peak was sitting at 39,782, recorded four months ago.

Despite these record-breaking numbers on Steam, Vessel of Hatred hasn’t had the smoothest of debuts.

Screenshot from Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred live action trailer showing a warrior with a cheetah style head dress in a jungle

Its launch had to be delayed by several hours due to “a small technical issue”.

This has, unfortunately for Blizzard, seen a spate of negative reviews for the expansion.

As I write, there are a total of 269 reviews for Vessel of Hatred onSteam.

Cover image for YouTube video

Of those, 69 are positive (nice), but the remaining 200 are negative.

“We have identified the issue and have a fix in flight for testing.

“Apologies for this but we are hoping to have a fix out for this soon!”

Vessel of Hatred player numbers on SteamDB

Vessel of Hatred is live!