I think combining the strengths of the two companies is making a better game. “NetEase is an expert at many things it does,” says Cheng. The game is running on NetEase’s in-house engine, but Blizzard say that Diablo Immortal has been built from the ground up. There were also suggestions that the game was a reskin of NetEase’s own Crusaders of Light… which itself was something of a Diablo clone. “When we saw that rumour came out, we didn’t comment on it because we don’t want to be in the habit of dismissing every rumour.”ĭiablo Immortal is different to Diablo IV in that it is pitched as a massively multiplayer online game. We're in full production and firing on all cylinders. Last year we didn't have any of those things. We have an extra class, we have a glimpse at what it's actually like to play a story and questing mission. There's a lot we have a lot of progress to show at BlizzCon this year. “I can't comment on the details of it, but we're working super hard in the game. We can do better about how we message that.” How do we make sure our players don't have to wait 12 years between game releases for their favourite universe and that didn't come through last year. We want to make sure that we're making more Diablo games for our players. “But it had always been the plan from the beginning for us to have both Diablo 4 and Diablo Immortal. That's what we said, That's all we could say. “We knew that there were multiple Diablo projects being worked on by multiple Diablo teams. “You know, last year was rough,” principal game designer Wyatt Cheng told The Telegraph at BlizzCon 2019. In one bizarre Q&A session, one attendee asked if the game was an April Fool’s Joke. The game, developed in tandem with Chinese tech giant NetEase, was announced last year at BlizzCon 2018 but was met with derision from fans who wanted to see the next ‘full’ Diablo game. The developers of Diablo Immortal, the mobile version of Blizzard’s popular fantasy RPG series Diablo, have said that the controversial reception of the game was ‘rough’ as the team came to terms with a fan backlash.
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