Diablo Immortal is the biggest launch in franchise history

Diablo Immortal official Twitter: "Shoutout to the heroes of Sanctuary. In just one week, Diablo Immortal is the biggest launch in franchise history. Thanks for slaying with us."

[Lionsguard]

Well, as it turns out, we in fact all do have phones.

[Lighter9]

I had a similar comment. 😂

[ToddlerBrain]

No Cosby rooms?

[bradfh]

but its on pc too ?

[LordoftheCritics]

We know which devs and publishers are not on the side of gamers and healthy gaming culture.

Let them say whatever they want, if it helps them sleep better.

[Jin_Sakai]

Now tell us how many uninstalled it.

[senorfartcushion]

Does anyone believe a studio when they says this in the age of Netflix and streaming? It just never feels as through “big” means big anymore. It feels like companies like to say it to sell copies of their products (and or subscriptions)

[monkey602]

Stupid metrics made up to give perception of success.

"Insert game name" is the fastest selling game we've ever had, launched on a (weekday) during a (insert current crisis), starring a 23 year old female red head.

[SoulWarrior]

Sounds like something MS would say lol.

[monkey602]

Microsoft are the first to come to mind when it comes to these insane metrics though.

[Tacoboto]

I downloaded it but haven't opened the app, so yeah this is an odd metric to go by.

Totally believe the number - it's just meaningless when they say installs not players or accounts.

[Bobertt]

It's just for shareholders and mobile gamers who don't know much about gaming.

[sourOG]

Isn’t it a free phone game? Lol

[CobraKai]

And I still won’t download it 😆😆😆

[sourOG]

Same. I’m interested in Diablo 4 but I’m conflicted on buying anything from them. I’ll never forget what blizzard did to that dude for supporting Hong Kong. That’s the first thing that pops into my head when I hear blizzard. China is probably the core audience for this game.

[phoenixwing]

Yes it is. Of course it'll reach more ppl. If they can get the whales to waste money on it is the metric they'll actually need

[sourOG]

Or a billion Chinese. Isn’t mobile their primary platform?

[phoenixwing]

Wouldn't surprise me if it was considering how they censor everything on console

[darkrider]

This kind of metrics are pointless. The only one is games sold. Again games sold. Everything else is marketing PR. I download the game and already deleted. But it still counts, but for nothing. Like services games. Zero. Played and sold aren't the same thing.

[anast]

It's F2P...Zero investment to take a look. The game is still a turd.

[biguaweb]

That no old diablo as well

[Germaximus]

Mobile. That is all. I've worked in mobile game support for many different projects and almost everybody that games on it is a complete moron that doesn't even know how to create an account. They get scammed constantly. These devs know exactly what they're doing.

Teach your children about scams. And try to keep them off mobile games. Get em a Switch but be careful cuz there's an endless supply of shovelware.

[sagapo]

10 mil installs and 9 mil deletes after players hit the paywall?

[rippermcrip]

There's no pay wall. Just another enraged person who has never played it.

It's a mobile version of D3 that you cna get just as much play out of for free.

[CrimsonWing69]

When your game is free…

[BrainSyphoned]

It did automatically download to my phone. Not good enough to get me away from Genshin as my daily quester though.

[jznrpg]

59 Billion shots fired in a year ! Or whatever MS said instead of sales numbers, MS owns them soon so makes sense . It’s a free phone game , what we need to know is how much you are milking people with loot boxes $$ How much a month ? 100 million ? 200? We will see . Bethesda made a similar game with Elder Scrolls Blades, not very good and you paid $ to get gems to have the best armor . Trying to get that same armor etc was just about impossible without $$ . These are the games that make $ with little effort . Stay away and say you don’t want them or you are going to get more of them and it’s going to infect consoles. It’s already on PC because mobile releases with PC usually .

[Nuclearmoon]

An accolade that is completely worthless when price of entry is zero. See how many stay, that will be the true measure of success

[-Foxtrot]

Developers sly way of saying “f*** you guys were going to continue what we’re doing suckers”

[Old McGroin]

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[Cackocacho]

Your free to download, exploitation garbageware, is the biggest launch in franchise history. Wow, what an accomplishment. 😆

So, how those metacritic scores looking, btw?

[GoodGuy09]

Unfortunately despite how predatory it is, it will succeed spectacularly because of the diablo name.

[Relientk77]

Disgusting

[StarkR3ality]

I'm scared of where gaming is heading.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Pretty fucking disgusting that over 10 million people want to download and support Blizzard. Doesn't matter if you play it or just download and uninstall it, just the thought of it is a slap in the face to the employees who worked there and the abuse they received.

[Crows90]

When you give it away for free...yeah people may just grab it.

[FlavorLav01]

Wow, a free to play game with lots of players…man who would’ve thought ?…

[frostypants]

Just go away, Blizzard.

[aaronaton]

There is only 1 thing worse than greedy developers, and that's gamers.

[NoFanBoy]

Never touching this crap. They would have to pay me to play it.

[Dfooster]

Played it for a bit but don't want to invest serious time into a product which becomes pay to win eventually. I would rather drop £8 on a port of a classic game like kotor and see it through

[GrmpyolGamer]

I wonder what the drop off rate is tho. I think alot of people downloaded it and gave it a shot but the retention rate is low

[Flawlessmic]

So has anyone here actually played it?

Ive played like 7 hours so far and am enjoying it, havent spent a cent yet or felt like i even needed to.

I mean what part of the game is is actually not doable without buying the legendary gems and stuff ?

[MasterChief3624]

I mean, it's free when all the other ones were released at a premium... so yeah?

[monkey602]

I wonder if they'll comment on them now holding the record for lowest user score on metacritic

[blacktiger]

Naw that's whta they say, to promote this loot box bs!