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posted by chromas on Saturday November 03 2018, @03:27PM   Printer-friendly
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Diablo is getting a 'full-fledged' mobile RPG

Blizzard is bringing Diablo to mobile devices, the company announced today during BlizzCon 2018. The game's creators promised a "full-fledged action RPG" called Diablo Immortal. Diablo Immortal picks up after Diablo II: Lord of Destruction and will launch for iOS and Android.

The mobile RPG is a massively multiplayer online action game; players will be able to drop in and out of groups and play through "dynamic events" as they travel through Sanctuary. Classes include monk, wizard, crusader, demon hunter, necromancer, and barbarian. Blizzard is currently allowing players to pre-register for a chance to join the game's upcoming beta.

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Also at Ars Technica.

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday November 04 2018, @02:20AM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Sunday November 04 2018, @02:20AM (#757477)

    I'm fine with that to, certainly so considering that I still play WOW -- just not as much as I used to. But then the expansions for something like WOW is really more like a new game, you just get to keep and play all of the old game to. But yes it's more about the lootboxes, the weird and expensive downloadable content that really just add what feels should have been in the game to begin with but they took it out so they could charge $5 extra for it.
    If one takes WOW as an example we have the endless amounts of mounts and pets, those are the things you can buy with real money, nothing really game changing even tho there has been some really overpowered pets that you could only obtain for money (the pandaren monk comes to mind). WOW do seem to have loot boxes thou, you just don't have to pay actual money for them, but there is the Black Market auction house chests that can if you are lucky contain upgraded current content loot and another example would be the Mythic+ weekly chest that contains "random" loot depending on the highest level M+ dungeon you did that week. Then we have that other aspect of people paying in-game gold to be carried thru content, which is beyond stupid but to each their own and such.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Sunday November 04 2018, @09:40PM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 04 2018, @09:40PM (#757731) Journal

    I went an grabbed Crusader of Light and played it on a high end gaming tablet.
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    Buttery smooth, honestly it felt like some things were built for a slower device and flashed up and were gone too quickly.
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    It seemed more WoW clone than D3 clone. That said it already pretty much lost me. Looks like the standard cookie cutter daily rewards box/reward crystals BS.
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    First time buyer screen popped up repeatedly to entice purchase.
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    I did really appreciate the auto quest following/completion though. That made mobile play much less thumb destroying.

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