Diablo III General Discussion - Page 1093

On November 03 2018 15:22 thePunGun wrote:
Poor Blizzard, this title never stood a chance...
They should have known that anything that wasn't Diablo 4 would be rejected and ripped to pieces.
I mean there's obviously another Diablo project in the making, they even said so on the panel. But sadly people tend to get their knickers in a twist about anything, that doesn't go their way.

On November 03 2018 15:16 bluzi wrote:
What struck me the most is that they actually finished the show with this , like they actually believed that this will be a successful reveal , otherwise they wouldve ended with something different , how could they be SO out of touch with their fanbase , mainly the hardcore ones that come to blizzcon paying top dollars for hotels flights and stand in line all day.....
crazy , they got booed and they earned it..... a god damn reskin mobile game..... holy molly i didnt see that coming as the only thing they showed in regards to D3.
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On November 03 2018 22:34 Archeon wrote:

That's what makes me wonder too. We knew that blizz is developing a diablo game, we knew they were planning a reveal of a mobile game, I'm not shocked blizz uses probably their second largest LP to try to push into the mobile market.

But to my surprise they seem to have expected to carry over a large portion of their diablo gamers to this mobile game and didn't even have a cookie for the diablo gamers ready. They are caught completely unaware that the hardcore diablo community like any other hardcore pc community shuns smartphone games and was instead waiting for new pc game content.

Their PR department seems to be completely out of touch. Either that or they planned to reveal their diablo pc game and then put their mobile game segment after that, but decided last minute that their pc game wasn't far enough and the mobile game too close to release to wait a bit.

somewhat relevant:

diablo immortal booths.

On November 04 2018 00:47 Excalibur_Z wrote:


^ Looks like the gamers are so mobile they've moved away.

The rule of thumb is that you never, ever announce mobile anything at a major event, especially as your headliner. Take a look at Hearthstone's rise in popularity. The Hearthstone team was very small, very reserved and cautious in their approach, knowing full well that the Blizzard community at large may not accept the game. When it did turn out to be popular, and everyone clamored for Blizzard to port it to mobile, that was worth announcing at a Blizzcon opening ceremony, and they only did that after they announced new expansion content!

Now take a look at Command and Conquer Rivals which was announced at E3 as part of EA's big press conference. There are many jokes about the hubris of EA, but man was that ever exemplified in that announcement! Rivals apparently is actually a pretty decent mobile RTS, but that's not the point! The point is that's not what people are going to see when they attend the press conference of a multibillion-dollar game studio. Just let it get featuring on the Apple/Google stores and buy ads like every other company to support its growth. Players interested in mobile gaming will inevitably go to the app stores and learn about games from a major studio in some manner, it's inevitable. But at a major venue where people are expecting high-budget games to blow them away? Not the time or place to essentially pull the rug out from under them with a mobile announcement.

And I say this as someone who has worked in the mobile game industry for 13 years.