![]() ![]() Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. But does it matter?įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. For now, we can say yes, Red Shirt Guy was right about Diablo Immortal. In the Q&A after the announcement, the guy pictured above called Blizzard out, and asked if this was all some out of season April Fools joke. The big question mark ahead for Diablo fans now remains Diablo 4, which promises to be a more traditional Diablo experience free of pay-for-power loot boxes, but we’ll have to see. Remember the crowd are the serious fans paying several hundred just to hear about the new big products, these are not casual phone gamers. For them, it seems to be working as intended. However, Diablo Immortal has made tens of millions of dollars in revenue already, showing that some people have been willing to pay, and Blizzard has effective had no response to any of the fan pushback, and changed nothing. Even though I had fun initially, once I realized how pointless the endgame would be without paying enormous sums of money, I quit and uninstalled. This essentially mirrored my own experience. It may be that Blizzard felt it inappropriate to go all out on the jokes this year, especially after recently making 800 people redundant.That second tweet was 13 days after his initial “things are going okay” tweet, meaning he quit out in under two weeks. While the patch notes are amusing, they’re a far cry from Crabby The Dungeon Helper, who invaded the official forums over the course of several years, offering “helpful advice” like Microsoft Office's Clippy. Meanwhile, in World of Warcraft, a set of fictitious patch notes were released including details of Findr, a new dungeon matching app based on Tinder. This joke has been around since 2017 so while some find it amusing, it certainly isn’t new. Overwatch fans saw the return of the Reinhardt prank, which puts Reinhardt players' messages in "all caps" and follows them with random quotes from the character. ![]() The only jokes in evidence were in Overwatch and World of Warcraft. With April Fools jokes now having an unfortunate connotation for Blizzard thanks to the efforts of Red Shirt Guy at last year’s Blizzcon, the game developers perhaps wisely chose to not make any Diablo-themed gags this year. Instead of elaborate jokes, spanning several franchises, they have kept things very low key. You Are Reading :Blizzard Wisely Avoided Any Diablo April Fools Jokes This Year. In the past Blizzard has pulled off some spectacular April Fools Day pranks, but this year they have been very quiet. ![]()
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