I, too, boycotted Star Wars Battlefront II because the loot crate system was so clearly a cash grab. I, too, cringed during the BlizzCon announcement about Diablo Immortal. And anyone even tangentially familiar with the gaming industry over the past few years could understand why: we’ve been told time and again that the future of gaming is mobile, and anyone who’s tried to play anything remotely “serious” on a mobile phone can tell you it’s almost always an awful experience.
When Alien: Blackout was announced just days into 2019, it was met with a hurricane of bad publicity.
