Diablo fans who can’t wait to try the first new game in the series in a decade won’t have to wait any longer if they’re ready to play on mobile. Blizzard opened access to Diablo Immortal a day early for iOS and Android. General manager of the project Rod Fergusson said that Blizzard released the mobile version the day before the official release on June 2 to give it time “to spread to all the world’s stores.”
PC players in most regions will have to wait until tomorrow to play (but not in Russia, if officially). On this platform, Diablo Immortal is currently in open beta testing. However, residents of certain countries in the Asia-Pacific region will only be able to try out the PC version on June 22.
Some journalists who played the pre-release version considerthat this is Blizzard’s best game in years, but there are serious doubts about microtransactions and the approach to monetization. In addition, the game has elements of random item drops that may violate the ban on loot boxes in Belgium and the Netherlands. As a result, Blizzard will not release the game in these countries.
Diablo Immortal is Blizzard’s second mobile game after Hearthstone and the first attempt to bring the existing series to iOS and Android. Activision Blizzard, spurred on by the success of Call of Duty Mobile and its King division, is making a bigger push towards mobile gaming. In 2020, the company said mobile games were in development for all of its “most important franchises”.
Blizzard plans to release another game towards the end of this year. Free-to-play strategy Warcraft Arclight Rumble will be the first mobile game in the Warcraft series.
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