A new installment in the Diablo franchise, Diablo 4, is set to revive the franchise, according to the head of the project.
As Diablo 4’s general manager Rod Fergusson told GameSpot, a resurgence of the Diablo franchise is expected with the launch of the game as an early access title on PlayStation Network, which launched earlier this year.
During a detailed interview with GamesRadar+, Doug Ferguson said that he believes Diablo 4 represents exactly what it represents to Blizzard, as the company continues to support Diablo Immortal on mobile while planning to retire Diablo 3, which was released eleven years ago, in the future.
An interview with Fergusson, a representative of a news outlet out of Canada, was conducted in response to a question he was asked about the current state of Diablo 3. There has been a game that has always maintained its popularity and has kept people coming back for almost 11 years, and it has become a staple of people’s lives. It is estimated that millions of people still play this game every season, and it is expected that that number will continue to grow. If everything goes according to plan, Diablo 2 may be resurrected, but will be much more approachable than before. If you want to achieve this, you need to bring it to the console, modernize it, make it playable again with a controller, and renew its core by bringing it to the console.
Diablo Immortal was the obvious next step in a direction that we needed to follow…in the middle of this situation, we concluded that we needed to go where the players were, which is on their mobile devices right now… With Diablo Immortal, we hope to expose Diablo to a wider audience and also be able to further spreading the word about Diablo as a result of its launch on the mobile platform… Our goal is to reach out to as many people as possible by releasing this mobile game for free.
It will only be eight days until Diablo 4 launches on October 27th, which is the first time the Diablo franchise has made a return in quite some time, marking a great deal of excitement for fans of the franchise. It is being said that this rolling snowball of games that have been released even before Diablo 4 has been released is an aspect of a problem that is growing and getting more and more difficult to solve since the beginning of the launch all the way to the instant that Diablo 4 is launched.
Pre-release hype campaigns have been conducted variously for Diablo 4, and a constant stream of “launch trailers” and “betas” have been released, in addition to the final server slam test which was held for the game. Due to this, Diablo 4 has been one of the most anticipated games of this year, as a healthy buildup has recently taken place leading up to its release. As part of his revelation, Ferguson also revealed to The Verge that Diablo 4’s servers have already been prepared for the game’s release. As Fergusson acknowledged in an interview that Diablo 4 may be bumpy on its launch, he admitted in the interview that he might be wrong when he said “it might be bumpy on its launch”.
