![]() ![]() So, as a Blizzard fan and someone who embraces mobile gaming, I was beyond excited for Diablo Immortal. Mobile gaming is here to stay and that’s a good thing. The days of only playing dodgy puzzle games with an insane freemium economy are long gone. I spend an enormous amount of time gaming on my phone and play games like Hearthstone and Legends of Runeterra, Candy Crush, Mario Kart, League of Legends and Armello. While a part of it stemmed from the expectation of D4, another factor is “proper” gamers refusal to accept mobile devices as legitimate gaming devices. ![]() ![]() Gamers behaving badly isn’t anything new, especially within fandoms as obsessive and rabid and Blizzard’s, but the response to Diablo Immortal was appalling. Infamously, one fan asked Lead Designer Wyatt Cheng if the announcement was an out of season April Fool’s joke. Diablo fans had whipped themselves up into such a fervour believing a Diablo IV announcement was imminent that when Immortal was announced many behaved atrociously. The reaction to Diablo Immortal’s announcement at BlizzCon 2018 was an embarrassment. ![]()
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