Ahead of BlizzCon, Blizzard confirmed 'multiple Diablo projects' were in the works and 'we may have some things to show you later this year'. What appears to be at the root of the uproar is a mismanagement of expectations. Of course this has been noticed - and met with a similar reaction both in terms of dislikes and comments. The exact same trailer has been re-uploaded to the official Diablo YouTube channel, but left 'unlisted'. While it's got some way to matching the 3.7m dislikes the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare reveal trailer suffered, the Diablo Immortal video is off to a very bad start indeed. On YouTube, Blizzard's official cinematic trailer for Diablo Immortal has been 'disliked' 184,000 times at the time of publication (expect this number to rise). '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.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. So that’s probably the biggest lesson: not double underscoring that piece and taking that for granted. That doesn’t mean we’re not going to be continuing to make awesome PC games and awesome console games like we have in the past.

'I think there’s a tendency to hear, or we didn’t do a good job of articulating ‘look this is a neat thing that we think we can do.’ Or we think that we can bring some of our franchises to the mobile platform and have them be cool, good, Blizzard-quality experiences. 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. Brack addressed fan concerns that, with Diablo Immortal being a mobile game and various PC games moving over to consoles, Blizzard has shifted its focus away from PC.

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