If you’ve been keeping tabs on gaming news, by now, you most likely have seen the backlash Blizzard Entertainment has gotten when it announced a new Diablo game, Diablo Immortal, at BlizzCon. Why the hate? Simple. Instead of a full-fledged Diablo game, Diablo Immortal is a mobile game, which isn’t really the exact sort of thing that you cap your press conference with.
Well, at the very least, Blizzard can have history on its back for Diablo Immortal’s reveal trailer. As of press time, the trailer is now the third highest YouTube dislike percentage of all time at 96.3 percent (23,000 likes to 606,000 dislikes computed via Scratch), which puts it in “lofty” company. The only other videos to beat it out in terms of dislikes are Dilma Resistente with “Daniela Mercury convoca mulheres contra Bolsonaro,” and YouTube Help with the “Getting Started With YouTube Heroes” video.
It goes without question that Diablo Immortal is now the most disliked video game trailer of 2018, and given that we’re in November, chances are, this won’t be beat anytime soon. Surprised? Not really, but this is on another level, I admit.
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Will this happen again? Given that Blizzard has said that it’s developing more mobile games on their existing IPs, well, that chance might be higher than we thought.
Do you think the hate is warranted or are people overreacting? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Source: Reddit
Yea it’s deserved. No one wants to see their beloved game become a p2w micro-transaction addled pos. If they can turn it around, buck the trend, and actually make a good game to raise the bar for all mobile games I’ll gladly shut up but that’s quite unlikely. I still feel there’s a hole in the market for an actual legit good mobile game, maybe running with a subscription model instead of p2w. Blizzard has the big name to pull that off but will they do it? I’m not optimistic about it.
I don’t think the idea of making a Diablo mobile game is a bad one per se, but to announce it at the end of Blizzcon as some kind of big reveal that people would love was a bad move to say the least. They could have at least offered some reassurances that the game wouldn’t have microtransactions and announced they are working on Diablo 4 at the same time, but they didn’t, which shows they are out of touch with their fans.
Many said it before and I agree.
I think the idea of Diablo Mobile isn’t the biggest problem, it was the timing and marketing.
Why o why would you reveal it at Blizzcon? You DO realize your core audience is PC, as in Personal Computer, as in not fucking mobile, right? At least announce Diablo 4 at Blizzcon. Have a cinematic trailer or something and then a few weeks later, just drop a trailer for Diablo mobile as a way to tie people over till Diablo 4 comes out.
Did anyone ANYONE at the company ask if if hey you know, this idea if fucking stupid?
I think at this point if they wanna redeem themselves, they have to cancel this one and announce Diablo 4 and apologize. Ofcourse they won’t cause Blizzard are greedy assholes.
blizzard had the chance to make it for pc and mobile, just like heartstone. What happened man -_-. I don’t play mobile games therefore you’re rewarded with my dislike. Everyone has the right to like or dislike whatever they want.
No surprise. I can’t believe Blizzard thought Blizzcon would be an appropriate place to announce a re-skinned, mobile cash grab game.
Especially with how hyped people are for a Diablo 4.