“We have said that we have multiple Diablo teams working on multiple Diablo projects and that remains true, even after releasing Switch and announcing Diablo: Immortal,” Adham said. The pair repeatedly stressed that Immortal is just one of the Diablo games currently in development at Blizzard and they hoped that fans will remain patient for future announcements. Today, Polygon spoke with Allen Adham, executive producer and Blizzard co-founder, and Dan Elggren, production director, about the response to Diablo: Immortal. Suffice it to say, a vocal portion of the Diablo fan base isn’t happy with Blizzard’s Diablo: Immortal announcement.

Multiple threads on the Diablo series subreddit have bemoaned Diablo: Immortal as a reskin of a pre-existing mobile game, calling Blizzard “out of touch” and equating the announcement to “a slap in the face.” During a BlizzCon panel, one attendee who stepped up to the microphone during a Q&A session sarcastically asked whether Diablo: Immortal was a delayed April Fool’s Day joke. The game’s announcement trailer has racked up more than a million views but it’s also received more than 257,000 dislikes. Blizzard unveiled Diablo: Immortal, a new game set in the the Diablo universe built for mobile devices, at BlizzCon 2018’s opening ceremony yesterday, and reaction from fans has been unkind at best.

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