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So when gamers hear “mobile Alien game,” what they (often accurately) interpret that to mean is “an Alien game very different than the one you were familiar with and might have been hoping for.” From walled garden to app stores Occasionally a game like Fortnite or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds can make the leap to mobile essentially intact, but they’re a rarity.
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The second reason gamers get upset is that mobile games are, by necessity, wholly different games than the kind offered for PC or console players.
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It’s a contained experience.” But that’s not the only objection. TQ Jefferson, FoxNext’s VP of external development, said in the aforementioned Variety interview he felt the comparison to Immortal was a stretch: “ The ‘Diablo’ backlash was focused on free-to-play and mobile, our game is a premium mobile game where you pay one price and you’re done. That doesn’t seem to be the case for Blackout. Mobile games often tend to come across as excuses to suck gamer‘s wallets dry through lootboxes or pricey shortcuts - such practices ruined Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, as far as I’m concerned. The first is probably what mobile games are probably best known for: microtransactions. The main reason gamers aren’t happy when a beloved franchise goes mobile comes down two things. Publisher D3 Go! have since told TNW there are other Alien games in the works, including a “a massively multiplayer online shooter.” However, (other) publisher FoxNext told Variety that a more traditional sequel to Isolation - a hypothetical “ Alien Isolation 2” - is not in development. It appears to be a sequel to Isolation, given that it stars that game‘s protagonist, Amanda Ripley.
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Similarly, reaction to Alien Blackout has been bemused. Later Blizzard execs tried to reassure fans a “proper” Diablo game was in development, but Immortal still became something like the butt of a joke. During a developer Q&A at Blizzcon, after it was officially revealed, a fan stood up and asked, point blank, if this was an April Fool’s joke. The developers of Immortal seemed to be totally wrongfooted by the reaction. After having a new entry in the Diablo franchise teased for a while, fans were not happy to be shown a mobile game. Before Alien Blackout was revealed, another mobile game was drawing a similar, or dare I say even greater, backlash from fans: Diablo Immortal.