10 Thoroughly Mistreated Video Game Franchises

"Is this an out of season April Fools joke?"

Those nine words are the best way to show how hilariously out of touch Blizzard was with what people wanted.

Diablo 3 was released in 2012 to positive reviews, with fans of the series loving pretty much everything about it. But then years passed, and fans were anxious to see a new entry to the series. Rumors of Diablo 4 were swirling, so at their convention in 2018, Blizzard announced the next entry to the Diablo series, Diablo Immortal.

It was a mobile game. And then they announced nothing else.

In their infinite wisdom they decided to have a Q&A session about the game, which led to the immortal (heh) quote above, had the crowd booing the developers when they announced that their would be no PC port, and one particularly terrible retort from a developer that went to the tune of "do you guys not have phones?"

The game is slated to release in June of this year, and a fourth game was officially announced a while later, but man was this a farce.