“Everyone up here is a gamer,” Diablo: Immortal boss Wyatt Cheng said. Without missing a beat, the Diablo team explained why they are happy to work on Immortal. “I have a question: Is this an out-of-season April Fools joke,” the man asked. During the publisher’s “What’s next for Diablo” panel, a fan put the development team on the spot. Blizzard is defending Diablo Immortalįor this new Diablo, that online backlash spilled over into the real world at BlizzCon. That makes it one of the most disliked posts on Google’s video platform. That video has racked up 3.7 million downvotes compared to 593,000 likes.

In 2016, many Call of Duty fans expressed their disillusionment with sci-fi elements of Infinite Warfare by rushing the reveal trailer on YouTube with dislikes. While downvotes on a video have, at best, a tenuous connection to any real-world behaviors, this is one way that fans have attempted to show their discontent with games in the past. In the hours since the Diablo YouTube channel uploaded the reveal trailers, fans have already downvoted it 26,000 times. Oh, and one other thing - fans seem really mad about it.

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