That is the complaint now bubbling up from the community, where players are asking how they are supposed to complete Tower-related objectives when the mode itself is no longer available. In classic Sanctuary fashion, the homework is still on the board, but someone locked the classroom and fed the key to a demon goat.
A new Blizzard forum thread calls for an urgent fix before the season ends, pointing out the awkward problem directly: if the Tower is closed, objectives connected to it become a very expensive-looking dead end.
The Tower Was Already a Strange Seasonal Guest
The Tower has had a weird place in Diablo 4 since it arrived as a leaderboard-focused activity. It was never just another dungeon. It was a timed, score-chasing, performance-measuring meat grinder for players who enjoy turning their build into a spreadsheet with teeth.
That is fine. Diablo needs optional sweaty content. Some players want to push leaderboards, optimize every second, and treat monster packs like unpaid employees in a speedrun factory.
But once seasonal objectives are tied to that activity, it stops being purely optional for completion-focused players. It becomes part of the seasonal checklist.
And if that checklist remains active after the Tower closes, the whole thing starts to look less like seasonal design and more like a trapdoor wearing a party hat.
Season Objectives Should Not Outlive the Feature
This is not about players asking for free rewards. It is about basic alignment between what the game asks players to do and what the game actually lets them do.
If a season objective says “complete this Tower thing,” then the Tower thing needs to exist. Revolutionary design philosophy, apparently.
When a limited-time feature closes before every related seasonal task is safely handled, players who come in late, play casually, or simply saved objectives for later can get punished for no good reason. That feels especially bad in a game already stuffed with timers, rotations, tiers, currencies, unlocks, and enough seasonal systems to make the Occultist look like a minimalist.
Diablo 4 does not need to remove challenge from the Season Journey. But it does need to avoid building objectives around disappearing doors.
The Fix Should Be Simple
There are a few obvious ways Blizzard could clean this up.
The affected objectives could be auto-completed. They could be replaced with alternative objectives. The Tower could briefly reopen. Or Blizzard could make sure future seasonal tasks tied to limited activities expire cleanly before the activity vanishes.
None of those options would destroy the sanctity of the grind. Nobody is asking Lilith to hand out participation trophies from a velvet basket.
But if a seasonal objective becomes impossible because a mode closed, that is not player failure. That is a scheduling problem wearing legendary boots.
Diablo 4 Still Has a Time Respect Problem
This hits the same nerve Diablo 4 keeps poking with a rusty dagger: player time.
Players can handle hard content. They can handle grind. They can handle bosses, bad drops, crafting pain, and the emotional comedy of bricking an item five seconds after feeling hope.
What feels worse is being told to complete something that no longer appears to be available.
That is not difficulty. That is bureaucracy from Hell.
If Blizzard wants seasons to feel smooth, objectives need to stay realistic until the end. Close the Tower if the schedule says it is time. Fine. But do not leave players staring at a season task that points at a locked door.
Sanctuary is already full of demons. It does not need broken homework too.
