In other gaming news, “major” Red Dead Online updates will be halted due to the ongoing development of Grand Theft Auto 6. During the Q&A session, a man asked stood up and asked the Blizzard team if the game was 'an out-of-season April Fools' joke' (shown below, left). Similarly, Blizzard’s Twitter thread about the new raid contains a lot of replies making light of Diablo Immortal’s microtransactions. On November 2nd, 2018, Blizzard unveiled Diablo Immortal at its annual BlizzCon event (shown below). Even if it is a reskin, so what But let’s say that Diablo: Immortal is a reskin. This is the game, that’s all.”Ī third user was also unhappy, commenting “Is this a joke? An event with “random rewards” and a battle pass with a new skin no other changes?” People think that Diablo: Immortal looks like games that are trying to look like Diablo games. There’s nothing coming outside the occasional raid. I’m so glad I uninstalled a few weeks ago. “Nothing here is even close to what I’d need to see to reinstall the game,” shared one player, while another added “Yeah it’s minor bug shit. Several players shared their feed in a Reddit thread dedicated to the upcoming patch.
The reception to the new patch has been generally negative. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Noticeably absent from Blizzard’s communication is any mention of the game’s aggressive monetisation strategy, though earlier in the week Blizzard president Mike Ybarra defended Diablo Immortal‘s microtransactions.ĭiablo Immortal. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. But does it matter?įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. For now, we can say yes, Red Shirt Guy was right about Diablo Immortal. The big question mark ahead for Diablo fans now remains Diablo 4, which promises to be a more traditional Diablo experience free of pay-for-power loot boxes, but we’ll have to see. For them, it seems to be working as intended. However, Diablo Immortal has made tens of millions of dollars in revenue already, showing that some people have been willing to pay, and Blizzard has effective had no response to any of the fan pushback, and changed nothing. Even though I had fun initially, once I realized how pointless the endgame would be without paying enormous sums of money, I quit and uninstalled. This essentially mirrored my own experience. That second tweet was 13 days after his initial “things are going okay” tweet, meaning he quit out in under two weeks.
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