Diablo Immortal Has Been Postponed Til 2022
We should test this later this year for ourselves but originally the game was scheduled for the first half of 2022, which Blizzard says would have allowed us to add significant improvements to the game. Blizzard says that the harassment and gender discrimination lawsuits against Activision Blizzard and the resignation yesterday of Blizzard President J. Allen Brack may have played a role in the delay, but there are no plans to comment on it.
Blizzard announced in 2018 that the game would be released in 2021. Diablo 4 was mocked after the release of a closed alpha preview, but apparently had a change of heart. The game now has a set release date, but its launch won't be until 2022.
Blizzard today confirmed that Diablo Immortal has been postponed until 2022. The news follows Blizzard's recent quarterly results, which covered a wide range of topics. In addition to Diablo Immortal, the company also released its second quarter 2021 results and said Overwatch 2 has passed an important internal milestone, with more to be announced about the game in the coming months. More than $1 billion in consumer spending in 2021 continues to prove that bringing some of Blizzard's largest franchises to mobile devices is a profitable strategy for the company.
The next installment of the Diablo series of Activision and Blizzard has been pushed back to the first half of 2022, giving developers more time to tweak the game. Action RPGs should hit Android and iOS devices later this year, but developers will need to live longer to optimize PvP content, improve their PvE experience and implement additional access options. Activision explained in its update that the developers use PvP for players.
This change will provide additional opportunities to improve our gaming experience that we previously not realized in the 2021 timeline we shared. These improvements include better player-to-player gameplay and enhanced late-player and environment gameplay. Controller support and character development are also ongoing areas of improvement, motivated by the delay until 2022.
The development team has taken the feedback from the players to heart. The main reason for the delay is the developers "desire to make improvements, and these improvements are based on feedback from participants in the closed alpha test. Based on the feedback from the players, the team decided to change and improve the whole game.