This is definitely disappointing for a lot of Blizzard's core fanbase as most of them play games on their computers and may describe themselves as card-carrying members of that good old PC Master Race, but mobile games are here to stay and Blizzard has seen some serious success on iOS and Android with Hearthstone. A new Diablo game was announced, but not Diablo 4 and not for PC. He rounded off the interview by stating that it had never occured to him, or to anyone in Blizzard to say, “‘Oh! Let’s stop working on these PC games, there’s no future in them”, it was never their intention.Īside from Diablo Immortal, Blizzard is also working on new mobile titles for all of their original IPs, though not much news has been heard about this since the announcement last year.Blizzard announced a ton of things today at the BlizzCon 2018 Opening Ceremony, and fans were pretty jazzed until the final reveal of the event. But fundamentally our roots are PC, a strong PC game company, and that’s not going to change.”īrack reiterated his point by mentioning that just because they have created a game for mobile, it does not mean that they will not be continuing to make PC and console games like they always have.

And those have been good things, that I think a lot of people have resonated with. “And in the last few years, we’ve moved Diablo 3 to console, we’ve moved Overwatch to console, we’ve moved Diablo 3 to Switch. “We started our journey in ye-olden times as a console company, and then we migrated to PC,” said Brack during his interview. In an interview with IGN, Brack explained that one of the major mistakes made during the unveiling was how Blizzard failed to articulate how it was first and foremost a PC gaming company, and that it will “continue to be a PC gaming company”.īrack goes on to address fan concerns about how with Diablo Immortal being a mobile game, and with many other titles under Blizzard shifting over to console, that Blizzard will slowly be shifting its focus away from PC. Fans who had been eagerly awaiting an announcement for Diablo 4 were instead treated to the reveal of the mobile game, which was a major disappointment for many.

The game was developed by Chinese publisher NetEase and was unveiled during BlizzCon 2018. Allen Brack has recently shared that the company has learned a “huge number of lessons” from the negative reaction to the reveal of their upcoming mobile game, Diablo Immortal.

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