Yesterday, Blizzard announced a Closed Beta for Diablo Immortal . The catch: Only a few can participate worldwide. The Beta is only available on Android and only in Canada and Australia. However, not everyone is satisfied with this, as seen by the search queries: People are looking for Diablo Immortal Beta APK and VPN, and there is also interest in playing on PC.
This was the message from Blizzard:
- Last night, Blizzard announced that a Closed Beta for Diablo Immortal has started, the mobile game. It started already on October 29 at 2 AM.
- Only players from Canada and Australia are allowed in the Closed Beta, along with selected influencers.
- The Closed Beta is expected to last less than three months, but it is closed to Europeans. Next, players from South Korea, China, and Japan are to be allowed in.
Search queries for Diablo Immortal APK, VPN, and PC are rising
Here’s how search queries are changing: If you look at the search queries related to Diablo Immortal from the last 7 days, you can clearly see a trend that players want to get into the Beta, even if they are neither Canadian nor Australian.
The search interest in “Diablo Immortal Beta APK” is high. Players prefer to download the data package here. However, the site Gosunoob warns: It states that at the moment there is no reliable source for the Diablo Immortal APK and that people might download corrupted data here.
Additionally, the search interest in “Diablo Immortal VPN” has increased: With these programs, it seems possible to bypass the regional lock of Diablo Immortal and pretend to register for the Beta from Canada or Australia through the official Blizzard site (via diabloimmortal).
According to US sites, it seems to be indeed possible to play the Beta already through services like NordVPN. In the past, MMORPG fans used similar methods to play online role-playing games like Lost Ark.
It is also interesting that the demand for “Diablo Immortal PC” is rising. Apparently, traditional Diablo players also want to see what Blizzard is doing with mobile. In previous Mobile MMORPGs, players used PC emulators to achieve this.
Is anyone in Germany interested in Diablo Immortal? Many critics have said: “Diablo Immortal is intended only for the Asian market.
However, this is only partially true. Indeed, the interest in Diablo Immortal is, as expected, highest in China, South Korea, and Singapore. But Germany, Austria, Australia, and several countries in Eastern Europe follow closely.
Surprisingly, interest in Diablo Immortal is only about half as large in Germany as in China, but twice as high as in the USA.
Blizzard promises: Diablo Immortal has a much “richer” endgame than Diablo 3