Some social media outlets and game industry workers that have previously been Anti-GamerGate condemned the backlash as "misogynistic", claiming that as mobile games were played primarily by women, any such criticism was due to women being the primary beneficiary of any such foray into mobile gaming. While Blizzard has uploaded more than one copy of the cinematic to YouTube (to comply with licensing regulations from regulatory bodies such as the ESRB and PEGI), they have all, at time of writing, been subject to heavy dislike-to-like ratios. There have also been reports that YouTube has been removing comments and downvotes from YouTube videos (which at one point made users post a removed comment from a user called RedPillShark as part of their own comments). The stage's response to this was "You all have mobiles, don't you?". When the stage clarified that there were no plans to release this on PC or console platforms, boos rained from the audience. One member of the audience asked "Is this an out-of-season April Fools joke?", to which the audience cheered.
The game was received poorly by BlizzCon attendees, and for the first time since BlizzCon began, the stage was booed by the audience. NetEase Games are also seen as unpopular even in their native China due to their predatory microtransactions.
In order to develop this video game, Blizzard partnered with Chinese developer NetEase Games, and it appears that Diablo Immortal is either a graphical reskin, or a very minor rework, of some of NetEases's other titles, such as Endless of God, which heavily featured microtransactions and play-to-win functionality.
There are no plans from Blizzard Entertainment to release this video game on PC or console platforms. Diablo Immortal covers the stories and character journeys between the events of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction and Diablo III. Diablo Immortal is an upcoming mobile video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, to be published by Activision Blizzard for mobile platforms unveiled at BlizzCon 2018.
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