It took a new game director telling the suits that they RMAH had to be removed for the game to find it's footing again. I do hope I end up being wrong but as long as lower effort titles continue to feature amongst Switch's top selling games, it remains a possibility this continues.ĭiablo 3 launched with a real money auction house. The situation is seemingly getting so apparent, part of me fears we may not see another 90%+ game for the rest of Switch's life. Games missing significant amounts of content (ultimately costing the games potential to achieve 90%+ averages with gaming journalists) while then subsequently supporting the incomplete game with additional free updates for base-game like content for a fixed defined period of time. We arguably first saw this come to head with newer series like Splatoon / Mario Maker and now it's gone deeper in Nintendo sports titles as well like Mario Tennis Aces, Mario Golf Super Rush, Switch Sports and Mario Strikes Battle League among other titles. The comparisons to Crusaders of Light may also be part of an overall reaction from the core community that can charitably be described as “disappointed.” In mid-October, Blizzard sought to tamp down expectations for a major Diablo announcement, shortly after fans noticed a much bigger presence in this year’s BlizzCon schedule than it had in 2017.Separate to the mobile discussion (Nintendo's kind of stepped away from it recently), Nintendo is already engaging in one questionable development practice in my view in that we're seeing the prevalence of what I would consider to be 'unfinished' games being released to market at full price. Obviously, the art styles are different, and in the announcement opening BlizzCon 2018’s keynote today, designer Wyatt Cheng touted the game’s setting between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 as an opportunity to expand the Diablo canon.

Diablo: Immortal’s monetization structure hasn’t been confirmed.Ĭrusaders of Light currently has five playable classes Diablo: Immortal is showing three at BlizzCon 2018 (Barbarian, Wizard and Monk) with six for the full game announced (Necromancer, Demon Hunter, and Crusader are the others). It’s a free-to-play game where microtransactions can improve character stats, and currency can be purchased and then used in an auction house, among other things. But the user interface comparison, at least, is correct.Ĭrusaders of Light is also available on PC ( via Steam) where user reception has been mixed. Polygon has played Diablo: Immortal at BlizzCon 2018 and will have impressions coming soon.

Diablo immortal is just a reskin