Whenever Blizzard releases a Diablo game, players will get annoyed with it - it's too dark, or not dark enough, or too grindy, or not grindy enough, or the loot is no good, or it doesn't work, or its business model is suspect.
Its first free playable demo was released back in 2018 alongside a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. In that sense, it can't exactly be framed as a reaction to Diablo 4, which wasn't revealed until late 2019 or released until June 2023.
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