That's what I love about the new Necromancer really around that idea of choice. You can sacrifice them right? To make yourself more powerful as your shadow magic. And even if you want to have minions at all.įergusson: Yeah.
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And even with the Necromancer, for example, you've got things like full character customization, and you've also got our unique class feature, the Book of the Dead, which allows you to customize and have a lot of choice in how your minions are deployed on the battlefield, which minions you have, and how they behave. You can make so many more choices than ever before with your classes. And when we're looking at the classes themselves, we wanted to make sure that the kinds of experiences that players remembered fondly from previous Diablo games were available, but also bring them into the most modern versions of themselves.Īnd Diablo 4 is really all about choice. So we know that we have a lot of things that really just need to be there. And we know that when we make a Diablo game, fans have a lot of expectations from D2: R, Diablo 3, and previous Diablo experiences that they've enjoyed. We've really focused on this theme of returning to darkness. Shely: Well, in a lot of ways, Diablo 4 is a love letter to our fans. What was the decision making process for bringing back the Necromancer instead of going, "Here's something that no one's ever seen before?" Speaking of the Necromancer, obviously a character that now has some legacy to it, but also I imagine that a lot of fans are going to be expecting to see something brand new, as opposed to a returning character.
It's Diablo the way that's meant to be played. You're living in this space and you're traveling across it to access dungeons. You're creating your character and going directly into the world. The world of Diablo 4 is this vast, big shared open world. But it's a really exciting time for Diablo. It's not time to talk about the Necromancer yet." So I'm really excited to be able to talk about the Necromancer. I am always thinking, "Okay, don't talk about the Necromancer. Joe Shely: Well, it's been really exciting working on the game and getting to share. What's it been like to know that's your role and is it a lot of pressure how are you dealing with that? We're excited to have that feeling of the return to darkness that Diablo 4 represents.Īnd Joe, for you, there has been a buildup of momentum and now you're the next step in the one-two punch of Diablo coming back. Of course, we're going to have Diablo 4 coming really soon, and it's the cherry on top of that sundae. And so having that free-to-play on mobile going where they are and no barrier to entry means that hopefully a lot of more people are going to get to experience Diablo. It gets to reach a lot more players reaching those 3 billion gamers who maybe only play on mobile. Immortal just launched, which is our big free-to-play mobile experience.
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In September, we had Diablo 2: Resurrected come back, and over five and a half million players that came back to play D2:R, a 21-year-old hardcore PC game that now has been remastered and available on console as well. In fact, we just crossed over 65 million players that played Diablo 3. We have Diablo 3 still out there-it's been out for 10 years now, but even in its most recent season, Season 26, we have 150 million hours of play. Rod Fergusson: I think it's never been a better time to be a Diablo fan and Diablo player. Rod, as the overseer of the Diablo franchise can you give us a temperature check on the franchise? Where is it at and where do you think it needs to be? You've got the launch of Immortal and now you've shown off a bit of Diablo 4. We spoke to Diablo 4 director Joe Shely and general manager of the Diablo franchise Rod Fergusson about the current state of Diablo, what their ambitions are for Diablo 4, and how the game has been designed to achieve them.
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