Reception 2018 Announcementįollowing the initial announcement at BlizzCon, several posts criticizing the game reached the front page of the /r/diablo subreddit. Unlike previous Diablo games, in Diablo Immortal the mana bar was replaced with a cooldown-based system.
As player achieves higher levels, they are able to earn new skills and improve existing ones. In the game, the player explores areas where they fight hordes of monsters, earning gold, experience and equipment, which can then be upgraded through various means. The player is offered to pick one of six available classes (Barbarian, Wizard, Monk, Necromancer, Demon Hunter and Crusader), each with 12 unlockable skills, five of which can be equipped at the same time. ĭiablo Immortal is a massively multiplayer online action role-playing game (MMORPG) that takes place between the events of Diablo II and Diablo III. On the same day, launch and gameplay trailers for the game were released (shown below, left and right). On June 2nd, 2022, after being delayed in 2021, Diablo Immortal was released for iOS, Android and Windows devices.
We saw a similar response when we announced that we were bringing Diablo to console, and we saw a similar response to the announcement of Hearthstone. "We know our audience here is passionately PC- and console-focused. In an interview with Kotaku, Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham revealed he anticipated a backlash to the announcement, although "not to this degree," saying:
The interaction at the convention also spawned the Do You Guys Not Have Phones? meme. Also during the session, the audience could be heard booing after Blizzard announced there were no plans for a PC release of the game (shown below, right). On November 2nd, 2018, Blizzard unveiled Diablo Immortal at its annual BlizzCon event (shown below).ĭuring the Q&A session, a man asked stood up and asked the Blizzard team if the game was "an out-of-season April Fools' joke" (shown below, left).
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