Regardless, Adham and the Diablo team 'tried' to bring that Diablo 4 announcement to BlizzCon, but that's not how things shook out. We have a long history of sort of innovating in new genres, if you look back to our early days, from racing games and puzzles games, and the adventure platformers, and then fighting games, and then strategy games and action RPGs.

'And I think we've proven over time to that audience, to our audience, that Hearthstone is an authentic Blizzard game, in a different way than our other games. ' Hearthstone was met with same sort of skepticism, and a little bit of confusion,' Adham noted. And with a potential tournament payout of a quarter-million dollars, it's no slouch in esports, either. These days, Hearthstone has cracked 100 million players. Instead, his focus is on educating those core fans and reminding them of how frustrated they were with Hearthstone back in the day. Loudly.'īut Adham doesn't begrudge the fans, no matter how loudly they shout their anger. When the BlizzCon opening ceremony wrapped with a mobile game, instead of a core game like Warcraft 3 Reforged (or Diablo 4), those core fans were 'letting us know what they want us to be working on. While I personally lamented a lack of core Diablo news as we were gearing up for a longer conversation, Adham was empathetic.Īdham knows how passionate Blizzard's players are, especially the ones that attend BlizzCon year after year.

It ruffled a lot of feathers, even among the most devoted Blizzard fans.īlizzard founder Allen Adham remained steady during his conversation with GameDaily when we chatted about the absent Diablo 4 announcement. The Diablo Immortal announcement was messy. Unfortunately, Diablo 4 just wasn't ready, leaving the mobile game and its developers at the mercy of angry gamers hoping for more. Blizzard founder Allen Adham: 'We tried' to have Diablo 4 news for BlizzCon How different would the BlizzCon reaction have been had we seen that Diablo 4 announcement?ĭiablo Immortal, Blizzard's foray into mobile action RPGs was supposed to have a safety net at BlizzCon.

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