10 EXACT Moments Video Game Fans Tapped Out

7. Do You Guys Not Have Phones? - Diablo Immortal

There are a few things guaranteed to go down like a lead balloon when it comes to a highly anticipated announcement and those things can be summed up into three phrases, “free-to-play”, “mobile game”, and “microtransactions”.

And what do you know, while hopeful Blizzcon 2018 attendees bent their ear praying for news of Diablo IV, they got the trifecta with the announcement of Diablo Immortal.

You have to feel a little bad for game director Wyatt Cheng as by all accounts Diablo Immortal is a fully-fledged Diablo experience, it just happens to be on mobiles where nobody really wanted it to be. Especially when a PC and console-based Diablo game hadn’t been released for six years at this point.

What gamers in the room and around the world got was a mobile game ad when their expectations had been way up. While the game has now come to PC with some rampant microtransactions, at the time there were no plans to bring it to any platform other than mobile, at which point Cheng responded to booing with the infamous phrase, “Do you guys not have phones?”

It’s easy to point at the impending release of Diablo IV now and see that fans are clearly tapping back in, but there was a dark five years in the middle there.