Blizzard doubles down on mobile; says to expect every Blizzard IP on mobile - Sensationalist Headlines

I can't stand touch screen controls Who prefers their thumbs covering part of the screen over controls they can feel without looking at them and use without blocking the screen? I think it's sheer madness that it's caught on as much as it has But I guess Im turning just turning into an old man now

I have huge hands, even just typing on my phone can be hard, mobile gaming is all but impossible for me.

I was starting to think Blizzard lost their touch after it's been shown time and time again that they don't know what they're doing when it comes to balancing Overwatch. However, I thought that was just a problem with the specific team on Overwatch, and not Blizzard as a whole. This whole fiasco with Diablo Immortal and the WarCraft 3 remake/remaster makes me think that maybe my original assumption was right, which is just saddening to think about considering how many memories I have involving Blizzard's older work.

nah, it'll be a clone of paladins strike.

this is just what happens when the marketing department takes over your company. Sure mobile games will make more money, but nobody actually cares about them because they're inherently throw away trash games, it doesnt make sense to try to hype them up or pretend anyone should be excited about a product everyone knows is garbage.

Actual story content?

Remember when The Bureau: XCOM Declassified was announced and people began to despair, but then they announced XCOM: Enemy Within and all was good with the world and the XCOM series continued to be massively popular while The Bureau was largely forgotten about, rather than remembered as the game which ruined the franchise? Blizzard should've done that.

Buy buy buy!

I went so far as to buy all the Diablo characters and skins in HotS and such.

I used to spend money on hots too. Then after the tyrande and chromie reworks among some others, I realized there's no point in spending money on characters because they can have total reworks done, completely changing them from what you enjoyed. That and I switched to linux, so after every update it's a bit of a tossup as to whether it'll continue to run on wine or not.

This is insanely arrogant of them to do this lol. Activision Blizzard could have prevented the whole mess by just teasing an actual PC installment that is in the works and then announce the mobile game. They could have fixed the whole mess by apologizing and reiterating that they have major PC focused projects in the works. They choose to fuel the fire instead by extending a middle finger to their customer base and announcing even more mobile products at perhaps the worst possible time. Yeah, we all own phones. What we don't have is interaction from you via a competent PR team.

the salt about diablo. They're working on D4, they just won't have it out any time soon.

Why not play on mobile, if it's possible to adapt the gameplay? What's wrong with having more platforms to enjoy a game? I don't understand this pushback. If I can play Overwatch while on my daily commute or while taking a shit, I'm a happy guy.

because the vast majority of us view it as an inferior gaming experience not worth bothering with. Resources are limited and pushing resources into development of an inferior product which most of us (especially Blizzards' playerbase) do not want rather than something we do want is crazy.

... so, elitism? Okay then. "In 2012 Blizzard had 4,700 employees, with offices across 11 cities including Austin, Texas, and countries around the globe. As of June 2015, the company's headquarters in Irvine, California had 2,622 employees." I don't think resources is a problem, my dude. Having a team of 30-50 people dedicated to porting some games to console isn't going to affect the output of content. These are people who would likely be hired to work on this stuff to begin with, they aren't going to be ripped from their seats to stop working on new games/content.

ngl i wouldnt mind if they brought wow pet battles or fishing or something to mobile

I don't even like using touch screen controls on the most mindless mobile games so putting something like Diablo on mobile is just shit for the birds. That and you need to consider Diablo has been the red headed step child for quite a number of years now...then they hype up Diablo fans weeks before Blizzcon and this is what they bring to the table. It wouldn't have mattered if it was coming out on PC as well. Even if it basically looks like a D3 skin, at least PC gamers would have gotten new story and content to enjoy while waiting for D4. I will never bother with Diablo on mobile and its apparent there are thousands who feel the same.

The only way I'll accept Blizzard games moving from PC centered to mobile centered is all the icons use the screaming man. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/129/dd78e13c-b0cf-42df-893f-61df7a095cad/8affd362827c4afabc8cac45be5aef33[1].jpg

No lol, mobile gaming is inferior just from the fact that the controls are always uncomfortable. That's not even getting into the fact that only watered down experience exist on mobile and that they are often plagued with micro transactions.

Elitism, really? Elitism would be a small core of Blizzard's fan base saying this game is going to be crap (because it's not traditional Blizzard or something) despite the vast majority saying it has potential and is gonna be good... don't throw that word about. What we have is almost everyone ripping it and a small minority of people actually expressing some form of interest in this project. Blizzard really doesn't get it, you'd think they'd learnt a lot after D3.

I mean yeah, this instance of Diablo was badly handled, but more games on mobile is a good thing in my opinion. FPS games work pretty well too with touch controls, even if it doesn't quite feel the same due to lack of feedback. No, what I'm saying is that your reason for not making/porting games to mobile is that it's "inferior". That's elitism. You think it's inferior, ergo it shouldn't be done. This is all subjective, though. You're talking as if your opinions are fact. Shave off your bias towards your preferences and it definetely comes down to elitism - you don't like it, therefor it's bad.

I don't think that's what elitism means. It'd be closer to think that the Diablo fanbase considers themselves too good for mobile games. That their group is superior to the mobile group.

Your original post was asking why people think its a bad thing and not understanding the pushback. The reasons we've listed are why. Yes, I get that the mobile market is huge, but I can't help but to feel dissappointed. I've been a fan of Diablo since childhood and them focusing on a whole other market that doesn't appeal to their main fanbase feels bad.