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Speaking to Kotaku in an interview at BlizzCon, executive producer and Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham admitted that Blizzard was expecting some backlash, but “not to this degree.” Unsurprisingly, Gamergate subreddit Kotaku In Action has also lent its considerable numbers to the more culture-wars-adjacent and conspiratorial elements of this backlash wave - in effect, amplifying them. There have also been accusations that Blizzard is removing dislikes from Diablo Immortal‘s cinematic and gameplay trailers - which currently have 215,000 and 132,000 dislikes on YouTube, respectively - but others have suggested that the number fluctuations are an algorithm issue or an adjustment after multi-account votes were removed. Other threads on the subreddit accuse Blizzard of “killing” Diablo, call the game a “slap in the face,” and justify being disrespectful to Blizzard employees, while people on Diablo‘s official forum call for boycotts and petition to get Immortal canceled. Except touch is the only way you’ll be able to play the next Diablo game. Riffing on that comment, a thread with nearly 4000 upvotes reads, “Everyone is saying that Blizzard is out touch with their fans. Fans have decided this is the ultimate example of Blizzard’s tone-deafness. “Do you guys not have phones?” he asked the audience in a faux-incredulous tone. I’m not sad, just disappointed and angry.”įans are especially focused on a joking remark principal designer Wyatt Cheng made during yesterday’s Q&A after getting booed for saying Immortal isn’t coming to PC.

“Now they are outsourcing and reskinning games. “Blizzard used to cancel games like Ghost and Titan for not meeting Blizzard quality,” reads the current top thread, which has over 12,000 upvotes. The Diablo subreddit, especially, is an avalanche of outrage right now.

#BLIZZCON 2018 DIABLO IMMORTAL PC#

Some fans have taken this as a sign that Blizzard has forsaken PC and console in favour of greener mobile pastures - and thus, that they’ve forsaken the fans that they built their foundation on. Instead, they got a mobile game that’s being developed in collaboration with Chinese company NetEase. Failing that, they were at least holding out for a remaster of a classic Diablo game.

The blog post got many fans’ hopes up for even a low-level loot drop of information about Diablo IV. It stems, for the most part, from a pre-BlizzCon Blizzard blog post that was meant to temper fans’ expectations and clarify that there are multiple Diablo projects in the works, but which did say that “we do intend to share some Diablo-related news with you at the show.” “No,” he replied to the facetiously phrased question, “it’s a fully fledged Diablo experience on mobile, which everybody will get to play, and hopefully, which will bring new heroes to Sanctuary as well as welcoming our community back into it and something we’re very excited about.”īacklash to Diablo Immortal, however, has continued to rage across social media, YouTube, Reddit, and other sites since then.

The company was expecting fans to react passionately, one of its co-founders told Kotaku in an interview today, but it wasn’t prepared for the level of vitriol that ensued.ĭuring yesterday’s on-stage Q&A, a developer on stage let the fan down gently. It was just the beginning of a very long weekend for Blizzard.

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