Diablo Immortal gets surprise delay in China amid microtransaction controversy Blizzard EntertainmentDiablo Immortal has been delayed in China until to further notice, as Blizzard\u2019s free-to-play mobile game vanishes days before release. Blizzard Entertainment was met with a mixed reception when Diablo Immortal was announced in 2018. The free-to-play mobile and PC title launched at the start of June 2022. The divisive MMORPG was set to launch in China on June 22, but this appears to have changed at the last minute according to Diablo\u2019s Chinese website. Blizzard Entertainment shifts Diablo Immortal\u2019s Chinese release date As discovered by gaming industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, Blizzard has made the last-minute decision to pull the plug on Diablo Immortal\u2019s Chinese release. Diablo players who enter the game\u2019s Chinese website will be greeted with the following message: \u201cWe are sorry to inform you that Diablo: Immortal\u2019s scheduled launch on June 23rd will be delayed.\u201d While the news comes as a surprise, the game\u2019s shift to an undetermined release window shouldn\u2019t worry anyone just yet. The delay is a result of the developers aiming to implement further fixes and quality-of-life improvements before it releases. A further message said, \u201cThe development team is working on a number of optimizations to the game.\u201d Diablo Immortal has had its release date delayed in China. Was originally set to launch June 23 but is now delayed to optimize the experience according to NetEase. https:\/\/t.co\/4htmKRm4Q8 \u2014 Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) June 19, 2022 This includes \u201cgreater device support for a wider range of models, maximum graphics quality on more models, a number of experiences, network and performance optimizations, and more.\u201d With plenty of fixes underway for the MMORPG, Blizzard expressed that they \u201cbelieve that the game experience will be smoother in the official launch version\u201d and should in turn bring players \u201cbetter game content.\u201d Notably, as spotted by Ahmad, Immortal\u2019s delay has arrived after the Chinese social media platform Weibo banned the game\u2019s official account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Diablo Immortal gets surprise delay in China amid microtransaction controversy Blizzard EntertainmentDiablo Immortal has been delayed in China until to further notice, as Blizzard\u2019s free-to-play mobile game vanishes days before release. Blizzard Entertainment was met with a mixed reception when Diablo Immortal was announced in 2018. The free-to-play mobile and PC title launched at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}