The Diablo team wrapped up by saying that Diablo Immortal doesn’t mean that it won’t make PC and console games in the future. “And we want to make a full-fledged game for that.” “If you look at the specs on a mobile phone today and compare it to a computer from just five years ago … we’re walking around with supercomputers in our pockets,” said Cheng. But it’s also about the platform itself, according to Cheng. The final fan question brought some fan concerns to a finer point: “Why bring it to mobile?”īerger said that the team is always trying to reach more people, and mobile is a great way to do that. But your future, as a fan, is bright.” But why? The future is … well, not bright, because Sanctuary is dark. This is one of the best times to be part of Diablo community. “Every time we’ve launched a new Diablo game - especially on a new platform - we’ve improved the experience and brought that back to the other versions of the game,” Berger said. We’re really excited about making a new Diablo game for mobile.”Īnd Diablo senior designer Matthew Berger followed that up by explaining that the new lessons the team learns will filter back into making other versions of Diablo better in the future. “Everyone up here is a gamer,” Diablo: Immortal boss Wyatt Cheng said. Without missing a beat, the Diablo team explained why they are happy to work on Immortal. “I have a question: Is this an out-of-season April Fools joke,” the man asked. During the publisher’s “What’s next for Diablo” panel, a fan put the development team on the spot. Blizzard is defending Diablo Immortalįor this new Diablo, that online backlash spilled over into the real world at BlizzCon.

That makes it one of the most disliked posts on Google’s video platform. That video has racked up 3.7 million downvotes compared to 593,000 likes. In 2016, many Call of Duty fans expressed their disillusionment with sci-fi elements of Infinite Warfare by rushing the reveal trailer on YouTube with dislikes.

While downvotes on a video have, at best, a tenuous connection to any real-world behaviors, this is one way that fans have attempted to show their discontent with games in the past. In the hours since the Diablo YouTube channel uploaded the reveal trailers, fans have already downvoted it 26,000 times. Oh, and one other thing - fans seem really mad about it.

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