1 août 2018 - Diablo Immortal fans took to social media to express discontentment

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Diablo Immortal, a mobile game port was announced at the 2018 BlizzCon event, with Blizzard having teased something Diablo related in the weeks prior. Upon the announcement, fans at the event booed the presentation, and other fans took to social media to express discontentment with the announcement. Complaints from gamers ranged from concern that Diablo Immortal was a re-skin of a previous game developed by NetEase (who are also developing Immortal), to issues related to Blizzard longtime fans of the series by not releasing Diablo 4 on computer or home console. The situation was further stressed when Kotaku had claimed that inside sources told them that Blizzard had pulled a Diablo 4 announcement at the last minute, which Blizzard refuted the next day.