Or heck, flip the two around, if its true they were announcing D4 in development, start with that, and say 'We know you're all excited to play D4, but its still a few years out, so we've come up with another way to play Diablo.

The Overwatch or WOW segments could have been last - everyone knew there was something in those and could wait. I would expect that if the Diablo segment was, say, second in the program after HotS, there wouldn't have been that much backlash. No one went in with high expectationsīlizzard told everyone 'expect Diablo news', so when they got to the Diablo specific portion (which was the last part of the opening ceremonies even after the rerouting of the Hearthstone session), you have a audience that had been waiting for this news and it turns out to be a mobile game. So they get through the exciting stuff, end on TES (which no one was expecting much of) - the mobile TES game and then pull out 'Hey TES 6 is coming but don't hold your breath'. It was clear there would be a Fallout announcement (with the tease before hand), but they didn't spell anything out about TES. Stay tuned to Shacknews for additional updates.īethesda I think managed expectations a bit better. If you're one of the many mobile gamers and are interested in what Diablo on-the-go will deliver, check out our Diablo Immortal hands-on preview from BlizzCon 2018. To catch you up on how the show actually ended, Blizzard closed out the BlizzCon 2018 Opening Ceremony with the reveal of Diablo Immortal for mobile devices and some attendees reacted pretty poorly. Blizzard essentially said as much with a blog post prior to BlizzCon 2018 anyway, asking fans to temper their expectations because the company 'won't be ready to announce all of our projects.' The original plan was to show the full reveal for Diablo Immortal and then end with a video that would feature Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham saying that Diablo 4 was in development but not ready to be shown. Instead, they pulled the video tease and allowed the BlizzCon 2018 Opening Ceremony to close on a bit of an awkward note.Īccording to a report from Kotaku, a couple anonymous sources say that Blizzard planned to tease Diablo 4 and pulled those plans at the last minute. Despite asking fans to reel in their expectations for Diablo-related news at BlizzCon 2018, it turns out the company had plans to tease the development of Diablo 4 anyway.

Diablo 4 teaser trailer