When I heard that news, I felt relieved that I’d be able to play the game on PC after all, but when Diablo Immortal launched a day early on mobile, I installed it on my iPhone 11 out of curiosity. This past April, Blizzard made another concession to the burned Diablo fan base by announcing Diablo Immortal would launch on PCs as well, despite that it was clearly created with mobile phones in mind. This history of not-unfair assumptions about mobile games resulted in a vitriolic response at BlizzCon 2018 - enough so that Blizzard issued a public defense of the game’s existence. Mobile games also have a reputation for embracing the worst kinds of money-grubbing and addictive design, using microtransactions and mechanics that border on gambling ( in some countries, they’re legislated as such).

Even the best mobile games are often shallow experiences, designed to be played in brief bursts while waiting at a bus stop or dentist’s office. The mobile game market does not have a great reputation among people who willingly use the word “gamer” to refer to themselves.

Diablo was made to be a mobile game all along, and Diablo Immortal proves it.

I’ve finally played Diablo Immortal, and it’s completely changed my mind. How dare Blizzard do this to a game series I remembered so fondly? That was how I felt when I heard the announcement. The screaming, the crying, the foaming at the mouth at the very idea that the next installment of the hardcore RPG series would be a mobile game. We all remember the announcement of Diablo Immortal at BlizzCon in 2018.

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