I am annoyed that they didn't announce d4 or something similar. But I can understand why they did this. They saw Pokémon go, fire emblem, ff games, all the revenue that shit generates and thought it would be a good idea. I mean shit Pokémon go brought in a lot of people who never played Pokémon before. They probably thought maybe it could boost sales.
I will say as anecdotal evidence that at work with a bunch of young 20 somethings. They all game on the phones all the damn time. One plays PUBG a lot, has like five emulators and has beaten many games on it all on his phone, doesn't own a pc but has consoles. I think part of this issue is because in the last decade we've had smartphones they have become a distraction for kids by parents. Not that it's a bad thing, but instead of a Gameboy we've replaced it with a phone. Only natural that younger gamers are going to enjoy playing shit on their phones. Similar to those of us that grew up with arcades near buy and would waste allowances on those machines all the time.
I Will also say playing d3 on the switch is pretty good imo. Being able to lay in bed with TV on and run some rifts is nice. I don't like playing games on my phone personally, but maybe it won't be super horrible with controller support, although I don't think it will be awesome.
I don’t think anyone cares that Blizzard is making a mobile Diablo. That’s well within their right to pursue customers and profit.
I think the issue is that they announced it at Blizzcon to a heavy PC crowd and then acted surprised by the blowback.
You could have asked one or asked one thousand Diablo players what their reaction would be to a mobile Diablo and I’d bet $1000 you’d get 100% “meh” as a response.
Will Diablo Immortal make tons of money? Most definitely. Should it have been rolled out in this manner and shit all over your core fan base? Absolutely not and that’s a huge blunder that could ultimately cost Blizzard a lot of money even when DI is profitable.
There was no reason to take advantage of that goodwill like that and it was completely tonedeaf which is what I think has the common Blizzard fan concerned.
Did one of our all time favorite franchises just completely abandon us? What other type of reaction could anyone expect?
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