Blizzard is promising that there will be six Diablo classes at launch (Barbarian, Crusader, Demon Hunter, Monk, Necromancer, and Wizard) as well as regularly introducing new storylines, playable characters and new challenges.Ī release date for Diablo Immortal has not been set, but a beta is expected to launch either later this year or sometime in the early stages of 2019. When Reed confirmed that game designer Wyatt Cheng would be mobile-only, the crowd booed. Now sure, people are entitled to take interest on what they please, but this seems like a full Diablo experience, albeit on a mobile platform. In Q&A, a fan asked if the game was available for PC. If it’s allowing the Diablo Immortal purchases to be refunded that doesn’t mean it’s all DI purchases for everyone. There’s no way to override if it denies you twice, senior support cannot do it. Now, it’s one thing to pop your hot takes onto Twitter, but to put this kind of question to a Blizzard representative in front of an auditorium of people, after the team has excitedly announced their new game, is downright disrespectful and disgusting. The refund policy is subject to a 48 hour evaluation by an automated system that determines eligibility. One fan asked if this announcement was an “out of season April Fool’s joke”. It was another question though that was really unsettling. The dev then asked the crowd if “none of them had mobiles”. The dev responded with the fact that it would only come to mobile only to be faced with a crowd full of boos. Especially when they sport a fanbase that loathes the concept of gaming on phones so deeply.One fan asked if the game would come to PC at all or if it were strictly mobile (a great question, albeit delivered with quite a condescending tone). When a company as iconic as Nintendo can't really make a splash in the mobile market despite multiple attempts, it's going to be hard for any established gaming player. It's also not really evidence that the game can rise above the huge number of mobile games that come and go without leaving much of a mark.

It's no surprise that the head of Activision would heap praise onto Diablo Immortal's progress internally.

Blizzard does have a mobile client for Hearthstone out on Android and iOS at the moment, but mobile takes on anything from Overwatch to Starcraft could be in the works for the future. This was confirmed at Blizzcon 2018 alongside the reveal of Diablo Immortal, but none of those games have been revealed as of yet. Daniel Alegre also mentioned in his talk that Diablo Immortal was one of several Blizzard mobile titles under development.

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