For purposes of this review, I decided to play as a Wizard, one of the six classes available in Diablo Immortal at launch, and chaining together spells to mow down hordes of monsters was easy and fun. As an action RPG, it's important for the combat to feel good, and Diablo Immortal delivers here in spades. it's clear that being built for phones and tablets hasn't compromised Diablo Immortal's bottom line. Our contributing editor Jon Jordan previously analysed Activision Blizzard's business strategy and discussed why the firm is stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to mobile and its future.Most of all, it's still very much a Diablo game. Activision increasingly has its eye on China and mobile and potentially highly lucrative revenue streams. There have been concerns in some quarters in recent times that Activision is extending its influence over Blizzard and the direction of the developer. "It doesn’t make sense to me, or really anyone at Blizzard, that we would just say ‘Oh! Let’s stop working on these PC games, there’s no future in them.’ That’s not our view at all." But fundamentally our roots are PC, a strong PC game company, and that’s not going to change. And those have been good things, that I think a lot of people have resonated with. "And in the last few years, we’ve moved Diablo 3 to console, we’ve moved Overwatch to console, we’ve moved Diablo 3 to Switch.
"We started our journey in ye-olden times as a console company, and then we migrated to PC,” said Brack. Allen Brack discussed the concerns raised by fans and lamented upon how the Blizzard failed to articulate that PC games will always be a core part of the company.
Fans had hoped for a Diablo 4 reveal at the paid-for event - despite Blizzard stating there wouldn't be one - but were instead treated to the mobile game reveal. The title developed by Chinese publisher NetEase was announced at Blizzcon last year. Blizzard learned “a huge number of lessons” from the negative reaction to the unveiling of upcoming mobile game Diablo Immortal, says the company's president.
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