diablo immortal is this an out of season april fools joke

One fan stood up in BlizzCon’s Q&A session and asked if the announcement was 'an out of season April Fools’ joke', while on YouTube, Blizzard’s official cinematic trailer for Diablo Immortal has (at the time of writing) been 'disliked' 490,000 times, balanced with just 18,000 likes.īlizzard has been clear that it has 'multiple teams working on different Diablo projects', some of which could well include a sequel or remaster, and has reiterated this following the Immortal fallout.

People wanted a new version of their beloved playable PC RPG and, instead, they were given an exclusive Mobile game.

Morgan Stanley’s Brian Nowak went further, suggesting Diablo Immortal could eventually see 'more than 200 million monthly active users, and that it could generate annual earnings of as much as $2.52 a share', whilst other industry commenters estimate the game could 'contribute annual revenue of up to $300 million' after launch, expecting the mobile title to “expand the franchise’s audience to hundreds of millions of players.”įans flooded social media and r/diablo with criticism of both the announcement and the game itself. Instead of excitement, there was skepticism, frustration, and even disgust in the air of conversations regarding the state of Diablo: Immortal.

Diablo immortal is this an out of season april fools joke