Diablo Immortal is fast approaching, it’s the first new Diablo game to be released in ten years, but it won’t always be like that as the release of Diablo Immortal for PC is a recent announcement. However, according to a new interview with Blizzard, the PC version was first created “to make it mobile.”
The Diablo mobile game was announced in 2015 to lukewarm response, mainly because everyone was waiting for Diablo IV to come out. Diablo Immortal’s June 2 release date is so close we can touch it, the excitement is that much higher, especially with the Diablo Immortal PC beta launching at the same time.
While no PC version was originally planned, a new Wowhead interview with Diablo franchise boss Rod Fergusson reveals that a PC version has always existed. “The mission of Diablo Immortal was to bring the Diablo experience to mobile devices,” Ferguson says, but admits that “we built it for PC to make it mobile.”
“We have developed [Diablo Immortal] on PC,” he adds, “so it wasn’t the first time we’d seen it on PC.” However, since the mobile version was the planned main release, Blizzard needed to make sure it was “locked down before we started thinking about other platforms.
As for why a PC version was considered, the Diablo official explains that it’s “the ultimate access to the game.” Apparently, content creators also played a part in the decision, as several of them told Blizzard that they would need to emulate Diablo Immortal in order to play it. “Obviously it’s not perfect,” Fergusson said.
Speaking of the PC beta, Fergusson explains that Blizzard still has “a lot to learn about the PC version, as we haven’t had a chance to test it on a large scale.” This probably explains why you have multiple control schemes on PC.
If you want to make sure your PC can run Blizzard’s latest RPG, you can check out the system requirements for Diablo Immortal here.
Source : PC Gamesn
