Its not about the game itself, its about where it was announced.

“Built from the ground up” Right, built from the ground up...with existing assets. Legally he can say that. Notice he didn’t say “it is not a re-skin”. Just like he wouldn’t say “We will not use predatory pay models” and instead just said they do lots of things.
This is why the fans are mad. Act like a trashbag…

Wow, and here's Blizzard demonstrating that they're still out of touch... You want to know what all the outage is about? I can sum it up for you in two words: tencent mobile

I mean, did they not see the reaction to that Command & Conquer mobile game EA presented at the last E3?

The 3 issues we have are

Videogame people are melodramatic as a lot, but they arent wrong. It just isnt ever a good idea to tease a new gamw only to have it be a mobile game. NO ONE WILL EVER BE EXCITED ABOUT A MOBILE GAME.

It’s probably been said a thousand times already, but the issue is not so much they are making a mobile Diablo game, it’s that they announced it to the (very) wrong crowd and as the final reveal of the keynote.

Are they using the same research company EA are?! Did they also hear that mobile gaming is what we want and that we don't know what we want as gamers?! 

When will NA game companies who bring out mobile versions of theirIP realize that unlike in asian countries, north americans generally view cell phone games as more of a novelty. Not everyone in the country here rides a bus or subway to work. Most of us drive and last I checked it was illegal to drive while using your…

A proper new Diablo has been and continues to be in the works,

This is just blizzard trying to cash in on the Chinese mobile gaming market. If nothing else they were stupid for fielding it to an audience other than the target market.

You know this article has a lot of editorializing about how these people are bad for being upset. Are people only allowed to react positively or they should just shut up? I would think that they would be allowed to express how disappointing something like taking an existing property and using it as what will likely be…

...and that's why they are out of touch.

A mobile Diablo experience would have been fine (pointless, but fine) if it was also accompanied by a cross-play announcement. They’re saying their fans are mostly PC and console based, and they’ve also just released a switch version. People knew that D4 wasn’t coming and I don’t think even necessarily demanding new…

Calling people trash or asking them to seek help because of their opinion. You people are not better but you think you are. As someone who gave up on Diablo cashing in long ago.. screw all of you.

You announced a mobile version of a beloved game to a bunch of people that bought blizzcon tickets. These guys were mostly PC players.  What did they think was going to happen...? 

Maybe if announcements were just press releases instead of hugely anticipated events there would be less hype to get rabid fans excitable about something that doesn’t exist.

No, it’s pretty clear that gamers are getting sick and tired of corporate double-speak designed entirely to cover your asses if you renege or laud yourselves if you somehow deliver. Set expectations with plain language or stay silent, please.

It’s amazing the number of people in these comments who misunderstand the reason the Diablo fans got upset, yet seem to be getting upset and very vocal about a community of fans getting upset and vocal.

I think people are perfectly justified in being upset. I mean, since when has Blizzard been known to make good games? Why should they be trusted to handle their franchises properly?