We want to give the teams the space to really create excellence and release games at a better and more consistent kids. It’s critical that all these products meet the Blizzard that we’re known for. It includes ongoing content for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone and a couple of mobile initiatives. I said consistently that the Blizzard pipeline is larger and richer than ever before. Allen Brack noted that the company has “a couple of mobile initiatives”: “The company also has sequels planned for its other blockbuster franchises - Overwatch and Diablo - in the coming years,” trader publication Barron’s wrote in a feature on Activision-Blizzard as a stock.Īctivision has also been pretty forward with investors about growing its franchises on future platforms, and in a question to an analyst, Blizzard president and CEO J. There’s also the fact that the investor world is happily talking about Overwatch and Diablo sequels, with the caveat that neither of them are expected to launch anytime soon. Similar systems have been used in Blizzard games before, like the ranking system for Heroes of the Storm or the leveling up mechanic for heroes and commanders in Starcraft 2‘s co-op mode. More info has started to seep out online that fits into that realm, with the same poster revealing Ashe before her announcement on the Overwatch stage last year discussing Overwatch 2, its focus on PvE and PvP, and how it’ll be shown at Blizzcon.įor example, there will be an upgrade/change to tracers pulsebomb that makes it so if you stick an opponent, all units close to the target that got stuck will also be stuck with a pulsebomb.- Metro October 18, 2019Ī couple of internal Blizzard sources have compared Overwatch 2‘s PvE element to Left 4 Dead when discussing it with Kotaku, and it makes sense that players would unlock abilities in PvE for certain heroes that wouldn’t carry over to normal multiplayer. “We have many plans for Diablo across multiple projects which we’ll be revealing over the course of the coming year,” the manager wrote.īlizzard already confirmed the cancellation of another Starcraft first-person shooter - a game described as Battlefield in the Starcraft universe by one source - to focus more on the future of Overwatch and Diablo.Īt the time, the expectation among those sources was that Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 would be the marquee reveals for Blizzcon 2019.

Post-Blizzcon 2018, an official community manager made a point of saying that multiple Diablo projects would be revealed over the course of the next 12 months.

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