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[nani17]

At 1:28


Diablo Immortal allows players to buy "Boon Of Plenty" for £8:99 where players will receive login rewards for 30 days. However, if you fail to login each day you will lose the rewards for that day. So you must log in every day.


25:00


It will cost you around $50,000 to max out your character.




Thanks to strange headache for this.

• Upgrading gear is only possible through shop items
• Loot progression is tied to rifts which need to be enhanced through ingame currency
• Drop chances are heavily gimped for non-paying players
• It costs around $20 (1.600 eternal orbs) to get a 45% chance at having a 5-Star gem drop in a rift
• Ingame currency packs are inconsistent with item shop prices, so you always end up paying more than you need
• Multiple ingame currencies to obfuscate your expenses
• Upgrading gear costs materials which are available through subscription passes

You need to login daily to receive the items that you paid for through your subscription
Pay 2 win, meaning that you get double the attack and health stats than a regular character
Game lures you in first, before nickel & diming you mid-game
Completing dungeons and fighting bosses does not give you rewards, instead you will get promotions for the ingame shop
etc...

Thanks I iQuasarLV
Paying vs not paying

 

[Davevil]

 

[GHG]

What have they done to Diablo.

 

[worldwithpyramids]

Wow, Blizzard is still innovating. Not many games have three battle passes.

I hope the whole studio folds.

 

[Filben]

Text version? I don't want to give them clicks nor watch a video.

 

[newtypepilot]

"but..but... I had fun playing it and I spent so 0 dollars, so there's nothing wrong with it!!! You are all just haters!!!""

 

[Con-Z-epT]

Diablo Immoral

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Net-Ease developed game is found to be predatory as fuck.

Who could imagine such a thing.

 

[Fuz]

Wonder what Phil Spencer thinks of this.

 

[cormack12]

That's not right. Not saying it's good or whatever but you buy an add on that gives you a bonus for logging in each day. But if you don't login, you don't get the bonus?

 

[strange headache]

Text version? I don't want to give them clicks nor watch a video.

The game employs every dirty trick to fleece your wallet:

• Upgrading gear is only possible through shop items such as legendary gems
• Loot progression is tied to rifts which need to be enhanced through ingame currency
• Drop chances are heavily gimped for non-paying players
• It costs around $20 (1.600 eternal orbs) to get a 45% chance at having a 5-Star gem drop in a rift
• Ingame currency packs are inconsistent with item shop prices, so you always end up paying more than you need
• Multiple ingame currencies to obfuscate your expenses
• Upgrading gear costs materials which are available through subscription passes

• You need to login daily to receive the items that you paid for through your subscription
• Pay 2 win, meaning that you get double the attack and health stats than a regular character
• Game lures you in first, before nickel & diming you mid-game
• Battlepasses seem like good value, but you'll still be an absolute scrub compared to customers investing in the item-shop
• Completing dungeons and fighting bosses does not give you rewards, instead you will get promotions for the ingame shop
• etc...

 

[Ellery]

Thanks for putting that together strange headache and I only can say holy fuck.

 

[Skifi28]

It's like they looked at Diablo 3's launch and said "this is what we need but multiplied by 20".

 

[Fuz]

This is standard practice for those games, though.

 

[Fahdis]

Lol, living in clown world. The problem is, people will actually pay for this

 

[kubricks]

Really, you need to login everyday?
Great! May as well not try then. ;/

 

[Fuz]

Lol, living in clown world. The problem is, people will actually pay for this

We're at this point because retards most gamers accepted the baby steps needed to get here.

But... but whales are good bro! They support the game for you bro! That horse armor doesn't change anything in my game bro!

Fucking blind idiots.

 

[Luipadre]

and people LOVE this game and will spend shitton of money on it and will complain when the next p2w game comes out. Fucking awful. I hate mobile games with passion, they are nothing but money grabs

 

[Black_Stride]

Its a mobile first game right?
So yeah this was expected.

Wonder what Phil Spencer thinks of this.

Looks at Genshin Impact:

That 70 billion coming back in two years easy work.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

We're way beyond having any normality back in gaming and dickheads will eat this up regardless

Good luck to em

 

[fermcr]

Didn't know this game was out already...

But, yep, still don't care much about it.

 

[Fuz]

Its a mobile first game right?
So yeah this was expected.

It should been expected.
It shouldn't been tolerated.

 

[Graciaus]

I don't see how anyone could even get to that point to notice the predatory stuff. I don't even know if I lasted an hour. Game is complete garbage.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Thanks, I was on the fence about downloading this but now it can fuck off.

I don’t get the complaints about the login reward access though. How is this any different than buying a battle pass that gives you access to unlock 100 or whatever levels worth of cosmetics, premium currency, etc but you only make it to level 29 or something because you don’t put in the effort? You don’t magically gain access to those unlocks there either.

 

[killatopak]

So this is how all my favorite franchises die.

In a sea of microtransactions.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

That's not right. Not saying it's good or whatever but you buy an add on that gives you a bonus for logging in each day. But if you don't login, you don't get the bonus?

It's standard in mobile games.

 

[Bojji]

Wonder what Phil Spencer thinks of this.

 

[GymWolf]

The only thing immortal here is their greed.

I'm just gonna wait for diablo 4.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Wonder what Phil Spencer thinks of this.

He's looking forward to swimming in an even bigger pile of money

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

So this is how all my favorite franchises die.

In a sea of microtransactions.

It's the superior business model. There's a reason mostly everyone is pushing this shit.

I never expected a prestige franchise such as Diablo to fall this low, but here we are.

 

[Valt7786]

Imagine getting your dream job at a highly regarded company, only to end up being part of a team that just runs it into the ground like this. Fuck me.

 

[Fuz]

He's looking forward to swimming in an even bigger pile of money

Their reputation is destroyed.
And now it's his problem.

 

[nominedomine]

What did you expect coming from Blizzard?

People will get exactly what they deserve.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

What did you expect from Blizzard?

Is it though? Diablo 4 will sell 20m copies.

E: wrong dude quoted, my phone made an oopsie

 

[Smokken]

"Upgrading gear is only possible through shop items"

That's wrong. You salvage equipment to upgrade gear, which you basically find EVERYWHERE. It's probably possible to speed it up by paying for ingame currency (havent't bothered yet).

If we only talk about PVE, it's pay to win faster...seeing as you need to grind more to get the same amount of stuff. I never understood the whining, isn't most free to play titles like this? I enjoyed Genshin Impact and other titles without paying a dollar. If people want to waste money maxing their character in the fastest way possible, go ahead.....who gives a fuck. No one is forcing you to pay.

 

[nani17]

Imagine getting your dream job at a highly regarded company, only to end up being part of a team that just runs it into the ground like this. Fuck me.

I never looked at it that way. I'd be really pissed off if that happened to me

 

[Jim Ryan other Clone]

What stupid thread... Every game that has log in daily bonus when you don't log in one day you lose that bonus. And you need 50000 to unlock all... Who forces you to buy them, it's a mobile game you play and enjoy it and if you buy something you just buy it. It's a PVE game if you do 300 damage with in game items and you do 500 with bought does it make a difference? There are the same kind copy paste shit Tier Videos for every gatcha games and everyone pretend to be surprised.

 

[Haggard]

Immortal is absolute crap as expected
I just hope that somehow D4 turns out to be a good game.....

 

[GeekyDad]

So, they legalized crack, eh? Figures...

 

[anthony2690]

So far, I'm not seeing any pay to win mechanics. (That being said, I'll probably never touch the store)

Maybe pay to skip through the game quicker (but not sure why you'd do that, unless you're not enjoying it)

From the couple hours I've played so far, it seems decent for a mobile game. (To my surprise)

Maybe my opinion will change with more time, but I'll wait and see before having a knee jerk reaction

 

[killatopak]

Just gonna say that telling me that the others do it too isn't a valid excuse. They're trash too.

 

[Kadve]

This is standard practice for those games, though.

Yes but "daily rewards" is something that's just there to get you to pay every day. Not something you actually pay for!

 

[mitch1971]

But, you all have bank accounts, right?

 

[Black_Stride]

It should been expected.
It shouldn't been tolerated.

Preaching to the choir my man.
I dont pay for shit in these games.....but im so in the minority it doesnt really matter.
As long as the casuals keep spending billions of dollars in these games we fighting a losing battle.
Hell id argue games that are more pay2win end up actually attracting the biggest whales.
Its a sad state of affairs but the peasants keep paying so the devs keep making.

Their reputation is destroyed.
And now it's his problem.

Reputation destroyed?
Maybe with the vocal minority.....the general population are gonna be throwing money at this game left right and center.....so now its his balance sheet.
Watch the MS earnings for 2023 be massively increased mostly due to mobile gaming and services.
We the core gamers might hate it......but this is the world we live in now.
It sucks but until the "casuals" really catch up, mobile first games will almost always be money pits.

Slightly off topic:
I was shocked to find out COD: Mobile makes so much money....ive been playing the game for years and havent never spent a dollar, I legit dont even know what people are spending money on.

 

[Thief1987]

So this is how all my favorite franchises die.

In a sea of microtransactions.

It's just a mobile spinoff, you should at least wait for diablo 4

 

[Smokken]

What stupid thread... Every game that has log in daily bonus when you don't log in one day you lose that bonus. And you need 50000 to unlock all... Who forces you to buy them, it's a mobile game you play and enjoy it and if you buy something you just buy it. It's a PVE game if you do 300 damage with in game items and you do 500 with bought does it make a difference? There are the same kind copy paste shit Tier Videos for every gatcha games and everyone pretend to be surprised.

My thoughts exactly. It's like people expect to get all the stuff for free instantly, in a free to play game. You can pay for convenience, so what. Have at it if you're in a rush to max out your character.
This practice has been going on for a long time, why are people surprised by this? Some people will "waste" their money on faster progression *buhu!!*. If you think that's unfair, you're in for a rude awakening later in life.

 

[Aion002]

That's not right. Not saying it's good or whatever but you buy an add on that gives you a bonus for logging in each day. But if you don't login, you don't get the bonus?

Most gacha games do that.

For example: The Welkin Moon Pass on Genshin Impact costs 5 usd and for 30 day and you get 90 primogens per day, but you must login everyday. I've been paying that for a long time, it's the best deal on Genshin, it basically enables you to get 1 new character per update (but most of times I can even get 2 characters (depending on my luck)).


That's just normal, it sucks... But it's just part of gacha games. If you like them you just have to deal with it.

Anyway, a simple rule: if a game is a gacha and is made by a western dev, is published/developed by nexon/netmarble/netease/(any other shitty publisher or dev) or has pvp p2w focus....

Unless you like suffering and burning money...

 

[kraspkibble]

It's just a mobile spinoff, you should at least wait for diablo 4

no! diablo is dead now!

/s

 

[DragonNCM]

"IT IS FREE GAME TO PLAY" now go play DIII or DII: resurrected

 

[Kusarigama]

It's a freaking free to play mobile game! That is how mobile f2p games work. It is a rather good mobile game. All the IAPs are optional. There's Diablo 3 for people having issues with this f2p game.