Kripparian has often been a vocal critic of Hearthstone, the Blizzard game he plays the most.

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. It feels like one team, even though we’re not physically together all the time. From both sides, we can come up with ideas and work on implementation. There’s no clear divide - you do this we do that. When I asked what each company was working on for the game, Hsu responded: It needs to feel more like it’s a member of the Diablo franchise but existing on mobile as a first-class citizen it needs to feel like it was born there.One popular refrain you see in these angry threads is that Blizzard has farmed the game out to NetEase. It’s usually never a major overarching inspiration because I think one of our challenges is that we first have to make it feel like a Diablo game and not like some other game that’s out there. They’re oftentimes really small things like, hey when this game for instance does this with the controls or this one has a little piece of like extra feedback that we like, or something like that.

“I can only speak for myself and say that when we’re making Diablo for mobile, and we just sort of played a lot of different games and collected, you know, the different things from each of them. That is not the case though as, in a recent roundtable interview, Senior Combat Designer Julian Love shared with us how Diablo Immortal “does not feel like some other mobile game that’s out right now.” While there might be elements of the game that are inspired by some aspects of other mobile games, Immortal still promises to feel like a Diablo game fisrt and foremost. In fact, some have speculated back then that Immortal will be just a re-skin of an existing mobile game. It’s fair to say that back when it was first announced in 2018, Diablo Immortal was not warmly received likely because fans were eagerly awaiting the next major Diablo game, and not a mobile installment.

Diablo immortal is a reskin?