5/15/2023 0 Comments Kotaku diablo 4![]() ![]() The original plan for BlizzCon 2018, according to two people familiar with Blizzard’s plans, was for Blizzard to announce the mobile game Diablo Immortal and then end on a video in which company co-founder Allen Adham told the audience that a proper Diablo 4 was in development but not ready to show just yet. Hopefully knowing that Diablo 4 is in development - and has been for a while, in various forms, under different directors - helps comfort any of you who were worried that the series was going mobile-only or something.- Jason Schreier November 5, 2018Īccording to the article written by Jason over at Kotaku, the reason the announcement would have been pulled is that, thanks to Diablo changing drastically over the last four years (including going through 2 directors!), there was no demo ready in time for BlizzCon. So, yes, I can confirm there's a new PC Diablo coming. It was already known that Blizzard would not make any big announcements for Diablo during BlizzCon, but the sole announcement of a mobile game made the fans go into outcry mode. I apologize for any misinformation: /zML9sQgkSn- Jason Schreier November 6, 2018 What's in dispute here is the planned timing. I can confirm that the Allen Adham video was made, and that D4 is in development. UPDATE: Blizzard disputes that a Diablo 4 announcement was pulled from BlizzCon. Jason Schreier can still confirm that the video was made and D4 is still in development-just not that the video was for BlizzCon. However, according to Jason Scheirer, editor at Kotaku, Blizzard had plans to announce Diablo 4 during BlizzCon, but the announcement was pulled at the last minute.Įdit: Blizzard disputes that a video was made for BlizzCon and pulled. If Blizzard manage to pull it off, Diablo 4 might just be worth the long wait after all.Diablo die-hard fans were not happy with the announcement of Diablo Immortal, a mobile game with no PC support, at BlizzCon. “They want to make this gross, make it dark, anything that was considered cartoony in Diablo 3… Make what people were afraid of in Diablo 2, but modern.” “There’s a lot of people who felt like Diablo 3 got away from what ‘Diablo’ in terms of art style and spell effects,” another of Kotaku’s Blizzard sources states, foreshadowing a move away from the bright ‘Blizzard’ aesthetic that we see in games like World of Warcraft, Overwatch and Diablo 3, and back to what made fans fall in love with the series to begin with. But, with work now having started on a true Diablo IV release, they seem to be focusing in on what long-time fans expect from a game bearing the ‘Diablo’ name: darkness, and dread. Hindsight shows that Blizzard may have jumped the gun in abandoning Diablo 3 so quickly, and wasted a bit of time trying to take its sequel in a different direction. ![]() ![]() “To have them pull the plug without really seeing how Reaper did really stung.” “A lot of people felt stunned by it,” the anonymous source says. It’s a real shame, then, that a lack of confidence from its creators meant that we never got to see the final content they had planned for it. Of course, a series of tweaks have since served to turn Diablo 3 into the game many fans always wanted – one that is still launching on new platforms like the Nintendo Switch even now. ![]() They thought Diablo 3 was a giant fuck-up.” “The overall sense on the team, at least in my impression, was that there was a vote of no confidence from the executives. But we think the best thing for the IP is to move to Diablo 4 in whatever form that’ll be,’” Kotaku quotes an ex-employee. “What they told the team was, ‘You’ve finished Reaper of Souls, it’s really good. The saddest part of this is that a second Diablo 3 expansion (a follow-up to the well-received Reaper of Souls) was originally planned, but was cancelled in favour of diverting resources to ‘Hades’, with Blizzard apparently wanting to move on from Diablo 3 as swiftly as possible to wash away the taste of its very rocky launch – one plagued with game-breaking bugs and perceived money-grabs. ![]()
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