Launch day itself went as smoothly as Blizzard Entertainment could have hoped with just a few minor issues and last-minute patches affecting the PC version which launched into open beta alongside the mobile versions.įor a game that spawned a meme when it was announced, Diablo Immortal seems to have been received quite well by the general community aside from complaints about its microtransactions. You can also play the game on PC but it is technically a mobile game first. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Do you guys not have phones? Because you’ll need one to play Diablo Immortal which has officially launched globally with the exception of a few countries in the Asia Pacific and Europe. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. This was not the way to bring confidence back to Blizzard as a brand, and I’m not sure they’ll ever get it back now.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
The sad part is you can easily see how great a full Diablo game could have been on mobile, as the design and controls are really fantastic here, but you have to be content with a campaign marred by XP gates, and then a more or less non-existent endgame unless you are spending truly insane amounts of money. But even by those standards the monetization is wildly out of hand, and of course actual Diablo fans running into these systems are going to be upset.
This is a game made purely for the whale-heavy gacha mobile market. This is pretty infuriating, given how misleading it is to make a huge point that you don’t sell “gear” and yet you sell the most powerful items in the game in the for of gems, and the means to max them out, for final builds that can cost upwards of $100,000 per character ( literally).
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