Part of the reason Diablo Immortal didn’t take away from Diablo 4 is because of a totally separate division for innovative creative development called “incubation.” This is the ecosystem Immortal sprang from - not the Diablo dev team. Mobile titles have their own development team

With that legacy, it’s understandable that even though Blizzard is telling us they’re developing some sort of game-which-must-not-be-named, they’re reluctant to announce it formally.

And Diablo 3 itself was the definition of development hell - announced formally in 2008, it wasn’t released until 2012. Kotaku speculates that the main reason that we all know Diablo 4 is in active development but they dare not speak its name like Voldemort is because of Blizzard’s graveyard - namely two famous former projects we all knew were in active development, Titan and StarCraft: Ghost. Why isn’t Blizzard talking about Diablo 4? As the article notes, if the devs were just left alone that expansion would undoubtedly have already shipped, but instead it’s a graveyard of half-started projects - and disappointed fans. The chess game of developers vs investorsĪ big focus of the article is the push and pull between the developers who want to make great games and the investors who control the money. Despite being a great game now, the release of Diablo 3 was downright rocky and the number of boxes sold immediately on release led to the suits getting nervous and allegedly axing a second expansion after Reaper of Souls. It’s a lot to digest, and several semi-throwaway statements that may be bombshells - I really did say Pokemon Go for WoW - but here are some of the main takeaways. Earlier today Kotaku published a lengthy post breaking down everything from Diablo 4 to Pokemon Go for World of Warcraft - from interviews from 16 Blizzard employees wishing to remain anonymous.

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