isn't the same as any company releasing anything in their platform of choice?? does nintendo deserves a similar treatment for not releasing mario on pc?? how isn't that being entitled??
since they are announcing a mobile game it's pretty obvious that it wont release anywhere else.
Consider this one historical fact. Just one historical fact.
All Diablo games has always, with exception of Diablo Immortal, been released FIRST on the PC platform, before other platforms.
Now with Diablo Immortal, its an AndroidOS & IOS release only, with possible Nintendo Switch release. One fan (who identifies himself as "Fluffy" asked "will this ever be launched on the PC), Wyatt Chang said that there are no plans to release on the PC.
If you call that "entitled", go do yourself a favour and go watch YongYea (a youtuber) on his views on this.
If despite all that, you still think its "entitlement", then you're definitely not looking at the gamer-publisher relationship as a reciprocal relationship (or a two way relationship)
Sorry but I just don't believe this rumor. So they are supposedly "not being fully prepared to commit to an official announcement". I know that a lot of gamers go plain nuts over release dates and announcements, but this is just ridiculous. They simply didn't have anything to announce in that field, so some disgruntled game "journalist" pulled this shit out of his ass to create controversy.
It wasn't the only announcement, dude. Besides... How many of that audience do you think wouldn't have a fancy smartphone?
I get it : mobile games have a bad reputation. But their technological capabilities grow much faster than the pc, and the majority of issues isn't even there but in the monetisation department, so it can be fixed. They'd be stupid NOT to tap in that market.
Let me put it this way. Huawei made announcement that their phones are far superior compared to Nintendo Switch when it comes to graphic prowess. Let's take that on face value. Second, look at the incredible job that Blizzard did to port Diablo 3 onto a portable gaming console called Nintendo Switch. Even Rhykker (a youtuber that does content very focused on Diablo) made comments on how he was surprised and impressed with what Blizzard did for Diablo 3 in Nintendo Switch (considering that he even says "I'm a PC master race, no offense."). Third, look at the retardly abysmal quality of the gameplay of Diablo Immortal (sans the cutscene) and compare it with other games that Blizzard's partner (called NetEase) had developed. Going by the "legendary" reputation that Blizzard built for shelving "low quality" games (even when its so developed that it was on the verge of release), a lot of things do not add up. A heck lot of things don't add up.
I've also given my thoughts in a similar thread, but I won't copy and paste the same thing. Suffice to say, the rage and indignity suffered by the Diablo fans who paid to visit Blizzcon is very well justified, and their concerns are very much valid.