Launched in May 2012, Diablo 3 hasn’t seen any new content since 2017, although it’s just been made available on the Nintendo Switch, so there’s that. The report notes that Diablo 4 has gone through at least two different iterations under different directors. Apparently, Diablo 4 is in development, but the team wasn’t ready to commit to an announcement as the game has changed “drastically” over the past four years and may continue to evolve.
Kotaku has updated its story, claiming that the video does exist, but the timeline of Blizzard’s announcement isn’t clear. The comment came after the same Kotaku published a story that said Blizzard had recorded a Diablo 4 presentation video featuring co-founder Allen Adham, with the purpose of showing it at BlizzCon. We do continue to have different teams working on multiple unannounced Diablo projects, and we look forward to announcing when the time is right.” “We generally don’t comment on rumors or speculation, but we can say that we didn’t pull any announcements from BlizzCon this year or have plans for other announcements. There were a few reasons for the controversy, but the driving factor was that the company’s sole Diablo announcement was a game that appeared to be made for a very different audience than hardcore Diablo fans.“First off we want to mention that we definitely hear our community,” Blizzard said in a comment to Kotaku. For most of the weekend, Diablo fans raged online as a result, expressing their anger on YouTube and various forums. Instead, at last Friday’s keynote, Blizzard revealed Diablo Immortal to a quiet, uncomfortable crowd and then ended the show.
The original plan for BlizzCon 2018, according to two people familiar with Blizzard’s plans, was for Blizzard to announce the mobile game Diablo Immortal and then end on a video in which company co-founder Allen Adham told the audience that a proper Diablo 4 was in development but not ready to show just yet.
As it turns out, Kotaku has learned, Blizzard had originally planned to tease Diablo 4, but pulled those plans at the last minute. When Blizzard’s sole Diablo announcement at this year’s BlizzCon turned out to be a game for phones, it set off a firestorm of angry reactions from fans who had hoped for a new Diablo on PC.
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