Again another sign that something big internally happened.īlizzCon comes along and they announce Diablo Immortal.you could tell Wyatt Cheng knew they were in deep shit. Many of these job postings are for upper management positions. Shortly after Blizzards message, we see a significant spike in job postings for the Unannounced Diablo Project. to me this is hinting some internal issues and could very well be a clue to why we didn't see a D4 announcement. It's part of what makes communication on our end so challenging. The community manager Brandy, was asked on twitter why they created the hype video only to temper our expectations 2 weeks before BlizzCon, to what she answered: ' There's certainly context the community is lacking. This was a very strange move considering how they had hyped us for a few months. Next Blizzard releases a message to the fans asking us to temper our expectations.

2 weeks before BlizzCon we also see the cancellation of the 4 part Diablo comics as well as some delays regarding the book of adria

But it is kind of a funny coincidence that he says his goodbyes 30 minutes before the worst BlizzCon announcement ever made. First we see Mike Morhaime stepping down, though that's probably not related at all. Then 2 weeks before BlizzCon strange things started to happen. So in August I believe Blizzard thought they were going to announce D4 at BlizzCon. Would they have done that if all they had to announce was a mobile game? Sure, they also announced the Switch port, but that announcement came just a few days after the hype video. In August they made a video to hype us up. It definitely seemed like they were going to announce D4 at this BlizzCon, but something happened last minute.

Diablo iv announced