

This community anger is leading fans to echo the same complaints about Immortal, like this claim that Blizzard is farming Immortal development or that Immortal is a reskin of an existing NetEase game called Crusaders of Light (which Blizzard says is also not true). Kripparian has often been a vocal critic of Hearthstone, the Blizzard game he plays the most. Fans have also claimed the game is a reskin of Crusaders of Light, another game by NetEase, which is partnering with Blizzard on the development of Diablo Immortal. On YouTube, even popular Blizzard content maker Octavian “Kripparrian” Morosan is being called a shill and receiving mostly downvotes on a video where he says people should give Diablo: Immortal a chance.

The anger surrounding Diablo: Immortal is reaching high levels. It’s a very good partnership, where we’re all in it together. like this claim that Blizzard is farming Immortal development or that Immortal is a reskin of an existing NetEase game called. It feels like one team, even though we’re not physically together all the time. The anger surrounding Diablo: Immortal is reaching high levels. From both sides, we can come up with ideas and work on implementation. There’s no clear divide - you do this we do that. A lot of the moves we saw in the trailer can be found in a game that got advertised as Diablo Mobile which is also created by NetEase called Endless of God. NetEase is the developer of this game, not Blizzard.

When I asked what each company was working on for the game, Hsu responded: level 1 3y It's made in NetEase's Messiah engine. One popular refrain you see in these angry threads is that Blizzard has farmed the game out to NetEase.
