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Diablo Immortal (Mobile) Announced
- Thread starter Strakt
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A mobile game was the main announcement of Blizzcon and also Blizzard have stated that they have "multiple projects" going for Diablo and leave Diablo until last at the opening ceremony. It's also been outsourced to Netease so it's not even developed by Blizzard.
The mobile game itself looks ok, not that we know much about it, but it's how and when it was announced that has caused this reaction.
They are going after the Asian markets as they know how profitable that will be.
So painful to watch the reveal and the panel.
It might be a perfectly fine mobile game, but they really failed to understand how and where to announce such a game. Just like most other big publishers.
As for the game, it really looks like it is a Diablo 3 ported to mobile. Which is not a bad thing as such.
But, not like this :(
It might be a perfectly fine mobile game, but they really failed to understand how and where to announce such a game. Just like most other big publishers.
As for the game, it really looks like it is a Diablo 3 ported to mobile. Which is not a bad thing as such.
But, not like this :(
IDK about previous ones, but the announcement was during the opening ceremony, and the Diablo panel was just more on the announced game. I checked the schedule during the announcement and it switched from "What's Next" to "Diablo Immortal Unveiled".
I'd rather have a brand new game than a port of a 6 year old game that's already on a dozen platforms.
The thing is that there have been Diablo'esque games on mobile for years and not one of them felt good to play to me
Add to that stuff like the battery getting hot and drained, your thumbs covering the screen and possibly a bunch of mobile game design shit that costs you time and money and I can't help but feel largely uninterested in this despite being a Diablo game. I'm sure this will eventually make Blizzard more money than the actual main series ever did, but as someone who associates Diablo with long playing sessions and the feeling of "click'n'slay", this really ain't it for me
Add to that stuff like the battery getting hot and drained, your thumbs covering the screen and possibly a bunch of mobile game design shit that costs you time and money and I can't help but feel largely uninterested in this despite being a Diablo game. I'm sure this will eventually make Blizzard more money than the actual main series ever did, but as someone who associates Diablo with long playing sessions and the feeling of "click'n'slay", this really ain't it for me
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It doesn't look that bad.
I don't want to play it but it doesn't look that bad.
D3 DLC or D2 remake would have been nice to see though.
I don't want to play it but it doesn't look that bad.
D3 DLC or D2 remake would have been nice to see though.
Buy-once games don't make money - unfortunately this has proven true again and again. Eventually these games end up not doing as well as F2P counterparts and often stop working/are deactivated by their platform and the pub can't be assed to fix it and the devs are either disbanded or too busy by the time it stops working. The only thing that has proven to work is the F2P or C2P model - unfortunately - and you can't shoehorn that into a game like Diablo without making it into a completely different game.
Don't try and foist a mobile game onto a core gamer audience and expect to get applauded for it. It's simple really.
Wait, where's Kev Martens, that good fella who turned D3 around ? Did he leave Blizzard ? I remember reading a bunch of departures from core D3 devs a while back...
I have been waiting for a mobile game I actually want to play, and if it controls well enough this might be it! I want D4 also, but this is pretty cool if it works out.
This "thing" is a perfect fit to the platform. A port is much less fitting, and would be seen as cash grab
It's a classic case of "this is clearly not what the fanbase wanted"
The smart way would have been to announce it side by side with either D2 Reforged or at least a teaser that D4 exists even if we won't see it for a while.
EA made literally the same mistake with Command & Conquer this year at E3.
Microsoft on the other hand announced their weird Gears of War spinoffs together with a mainline game - that's the way to do it if you don't want a fanbase backlash.
Diablo is a classic 'hardcore' franchise that is now being advertised to the lowest common demoninator in gaming.
The fan base does not want this.
What are you confused about? If I pay for concert tickets, I don't expect to get stiffed with a weak show.
Ahhh, you do know what Blizzcon is right? And the guy asking the question is fine? I don't get that response at all, it's rather Blizzard's response that is terrible and immature.
Also, people. This game isn't made by Blizzard. They literally shafted the game to a third party mobile developer. That's how much they give a shit.
I'm okay with them being grilled at the panel. They announced a farmed-out, pay-to-grind mobile game to a room full of PC and Diablo franchise enthusiasts. No one wanted it and it's not made for them but for ActiBlizz shareholders who want to get on the mobile cash cow.
They hyped up Diablo so much it's perfectly understandable that people might think they're joking (and the company has a history of putting on pranks).
They hyped up Diablo so much it's perfectly understandable that people might think they're joking (and the company has a history of putting on pranks).
You're comparing three things that are completely different. Your post is dumb.
they are on record saying features from mobile could come to diablo 3, i genuinely think they reset diablo 4 project recently and its now years away
I had never been so dissapointed at Blizzard. These are the proyects in the works. A comic , a switch port of ros and a fucking mobile game.
RDR on Switch is something a lot of people would want. You can't compare that to Diablo and Artifact.
Nah, Blizzard deserves all the shit flung their way. They already spit on one of their most loyal fanbases with the original Diablo 3 release, and now this. I don't have a single shred of sympathy for them.
Yeah I wasn't a fan of that response. Has to be hard up there getting the reaction they got but that's not the ideal way to respond imo. It's the 'what, are you dumb?' kind of response to me.
Next diablo game, braille exclusive.
"Dont you guys have fingers?!"
Have played D3? Arpgs are all about a shit ton of stuff on screen and avoiding it. Try doing that in mobile. No one wanted a diablo game in mobile what we wanted was D4 or a remake. This is BS after getting nothing for years.
Most companies are perfectly happy for people to play these type of games on the likes of Nox, Bluestacks, and Memu
RDR1 on Switch would be a day zero buy, but yeah i get this point, Artifact was insulting too, people have been begging for a new game from Valve & they give us another Magic clone, cmon...
That was said, but it was more of a could come, not would.
And it also felt like a panicked response. That Q&A was such a mistake.
Ahh, they SPIT ON YOU. That's it! By not rewarding your loyalty by announcing a game you want, they SPIT ON YOU! And thus deserve a bunch of hostility. For spitting on the fans.
And y'all say it's not entitlement.