II, which details the early days of both Blizzard and Condor. I, received as part of my Kickstarter pledge for Vol. I was just reading David Craddock’s Stay Awhile and Listen Vol. While it is absolutely true that Blizzard does this, they also only do this whole improvement cycle for games they are actively playing. Unfortunately, he missed a key aspect of the Blizzard story. Heroes of the Storm: Blizzard does Dota 2!.Hearthstone: Blizzard does Magic: The Gathering!.

Overwatch: Blizzard does Team Fortress 2!.

World of Warcraft: Blizzard does Everquest!.

The essence is that Blizzard only ever makes games that are improvements of existing titles, trotting out the evidence with which many of us are already familiar, summed up in this list: Ben Kuchera did an excellent article over at Polygon about how Diablo Immortal broke the “rules” of Blizzard. This panicked point of view both accepts and ignores the long history of Blizzard. The statement was quickly interpreted and repeated as Blizzard moving on to only doing mobile titles, with all their good developers are working exclusively on mobile, and that Blizzard is essentially abandoning PC and console games to whatever interns happen to be handy to take over the reigns.

That practically set the hair of enraged on fire. Many of them are being developed internally only, and we’ll have information to share on those in the future. Some of them are with external partners like Diablo Immortal. Many of us over the last few years have shifted from playing primarily desktop to playing many hours on mobile, and we have many of our best developers now working on new mobile titles across all of our IPs. It is feeling less like a reassurance and more like a taunt every time they say it.Īnd then there was Allen Adham’s statement at a press conference: Blizzard keeps coyly stating that they have “multiple” Diablo project ongoing, but their refusal to give us a hint as to what is really in the bag just gets more frustrating every time they repeat it. There was that whole statement made, then retracted, about Blizzard having planned to show a trailer for Diablo IV at BlizzCon.

Diablo immortal widely hated