After a month of anticipation, Diablo 4's first season has finally arrived. The Season of the Malignant is supposed to kick off Diablo 4's post-launch content stream in glorious fashion, but it has failed to deliver. The battle pass leaves much to be desired, the content does little to shake the game up, and Blizzard chose to make almost every aspect of the game slower. It is not at all what fans of the ARPG thought the first season would be, and that may not bode well for future seasons.