So I just saw a post pop up asking about Diablo 3 Season 30’s end date, figured I’d try to find the official word. Blizzard doesn’t always make it super easy, you know? Jumped into action.
First thing I did, fired up the old laptop and headed straight to Blizzard’s main website. Scrolled around their news section. Tons of stuff about other games, season launches… but nada for Season 30 ending specifically. Felt like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Then I remembered they often put season dates deep in the actual Season Journey info. Launched the game client. Took a good minute to load, logged in to my seasonal character. Clicked over to the Season Journey menu. Scrolled down, down, down… Boom! Found it tucked away near the bottom: “Season 30 ends on June 23 around 5 PM Pacific Time.” Classic Blizzard hiding the important bit.
Making Sense of the Countdown
Okay, date confirmed. But people always ask “how long is left?” Tried finding a ready-made countdown timer online. Searched my usual gaming sites. No luck. Everything was for Season 31 start or Diablo 4 stuff. Super frustrating.
Thought about building something simple myself. Needed:
- A clear target date and time: June 23, 5 PM PDT.
- A way to calculate the time difference from now.
- A place to show it constantly.
Almost spilled my coffee thinking about coding a whole webpage. Then it hit me: why not a bot? Our little Discord server could use one anyway.
The Bot Saves the Day
Grabbed my tablet and sketched out what I wanted:
- Bot command like !season30end
- Grabs the current date/time automatically.
- Calculates exactly how many days, hours, minutes, seconds left.
- Spits out a nice, clean message showing the countdown.
Found a simple bot framework I’d used before for weather stuff. Dug into the code again. Had to figure out the time zone conversion (PDT always trips me up). A few tests later – bam! It worked. Typed !season30end in the server channel. Instantly got a message back: “Season 30 ends in 12 days, 4 hours, 15 minutes, 8 seconds.” Feels good!
Shared the bot command with the server peeps immediately. Everyone’s using it now to see exactly how much grinding time they have left. Perfect fix for that “When does it end?!?” panic. All done before lunch. Maybe go level that Barbarian some more…