Blizzard EntertainmentsDiablo Immortal launched this month in Asia, and weve been playing quite a bit of it since.

For a while, that is.

This mobile game is not the real problem.

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Its just a dark harbinger of things to come for the future of Blizzard games.

This is how it starts

Blizzard Entertainment is not the same company it was 10 years ago.

Blizzard cant hope to keep that pace up with its own franchises.

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Brack is out now, but he clearly kept his word in the long run.

Why mobile games?

Whether we like it or not, Diablo Immortal has proven to be a massive success for Blizzard.

Thats not even the worst of it,of course.

Thats fine, right?

This is just one game and if you don’t like it, don’t play it.

If you think that game wont have a microtransaction problem, you havent been paying attention.

Microtransactions can still feel invasive even if theyre not geared towards gameplay.