So boo for planning their product launch. I would too.īut I would NOT drop that BOMB at that demographically targeted event and not expect the crowd to look like they all had rabies. Sure, I get it, they want the huge pool of money mobile casuals drop on pocket games. Now you take their audience (target demographic) with computers and consoles then drop a mobile game on them that is considered to be in the realm of not 'enthusiast gamers' but 'casual gamers' and your going lose all the wind in your sails at an enthusiast event. I was wired for a massive update to D1, and instead it was a soft mod for D3.booooooooooooooo The last diablo hype than that derailed me was the 'remaking diablo' announcement. Now I too was hoping for a new expansion for D3 or even a D4 as I imagine most of the participants were and if blizzard didn't expect that they don't know their audience. I only got D3 just 2 months ago and gotta tell ya, better than I thought it would be.

I don't fanaticise about their games and I dont freak out when there is a new release. So hopefully we’ll get there.”Īs a blizzard fan from the early Warcraft and diablo days ( 10 years old) most of their games have been pretty good.

It’s pretty clear to us that there is a huge audience around the world that is gonna love this title. So I don’t think that the mixed comments are necessarily anything other than when a really passionate audience that desperately wants to see what they hope to see one day. So I actually think that those two items are being conflated. “The way I’ve been kind of looking at the mixed comments is what those folks are really saying is they desperately, passionately want the next big thing. The company thought Immortal would be a good idea due to the popularity of mobile devices and believe “fans will probably change their opinion of Immortal when they actually get their hands on it.” With criticism for Diablo: Immortal mounting, Blizzard has been forced to justify their decision for demoting the beloved franchise to mobile devices, which fans have described as “out of touch” and “a slap in the face.” Speaking with Polygon, higher-ups “repeatedly stressed” Immortal is just one of the Diablo games currently in development, and how it was created “from the ground up” despite allegations to the contrary.

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