Even if the main focus was on the mobile game, simply letting fans know that what they actually want, Diablo 4, is definitely coming, that would have headed a lot of this off at the pass, even if it’s still potentially years away. But talking about things cryptically is always going to get ignored by most fans, and something as simple as a 10 second teaser showing a CG Amazon or something for two seconds along with the Diablo 4 title card would have gone a long way. I assume that both a Diablo remaster and Diablo 4 are two of the projects being talked about cryptically here.

Almost everyone missed the memo two weeks ago that Diablo 4 wasn’t going to be announced, and even that declaration refused to call it Diablo 4.Īfter all this controversy, Blizzard is essentially repeating the same lines, that they still have multiple Diablo projects in the works besides Immortal, they’re just not ready to announce them yet.Īnd that’s a bad idea. The problem is that Blizzard didn’t address any of this at the actual show that hundreds of thousands of people were watching. Not “personally attack developers” mad, as that’s never justified, but very, very mad. In that case, I would understand the anger dial being turned up to 11, because yeah, if I thought Diablo Immortal was replacing D4, I’d be pretty mad too.

Much of the anger was rooted not necessarily in the existence of the mobile game, but many, many people sincerely believed that this mobile game was replacing Diablo 4, that this was the next evolution of the series into something no one had asked for. Tons and tons of the fans I talked to had no idea that Blizzard had already addressed this before the show. The implication there was that Diablo 4, the game everyone clearly wants to see, would not be announced at BlizzCon the way many predicted it would be, given that it’s now been six years since Diablo 3 came out, and Blizzard was making it clear they were going to talk about Diablo extensively at the show for the first time in a while.īut both I and Blizzard were sort of in a bubble assuming everyone had gotten that message. We know what many of you are hoping for and we can only say that “good things come to those who wait,” but evil things often take longer.” “We currently have multiple teams working on different Diablo projects and we can’t wait to tell you all about them.

“These are very exciting times,” the statement reads. One of my pushbacks to everyone getting mad was reminding people that before BlizzCon, Blizzard said the following:

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