![]() This is about Diablo Immortal, the upcoming mobile Diablo title that’s been excoriated and eviscerated since its calamitous reveal. I’ll never forget my level 80 necromancer dying to Izual when my dorm room ethernet blinked out for a few moments during a Diablo II LAN party. I still have an awesome hardcore-mode ear collection out there somewhere. Diablo II set the standard for the ARPG genre when it was revealed, and it’s still the title that all others are measured against. I remember being eaten by the Butcher, picking up the oddly-boxed Hellfire expansion (Yeah did you know Sierra made and published a Diablo expansion? What wild times those were.) at CompUSA and going hard in the very Zerg-inspired Hive, and that was just a taste of how important the franchise would become in the annals of gaming. I’ve been playing Diablo games since the original game. Headlining Blizzcon with a mobile game when the Diablo community was desperate for anything related to Diablo 3 or 4 was a rough reveal, and what’s more the game didn’t look or feel anything like I was hoping it would. ![]() Upon watching their video, I have, in fact, decided to uninstall it and won’t play it again.A few years back when Diablo Immortal was unveiled, I was less than enthused. – Put simply, while Diablo Immortal is a fun game, the pay-wall of achieving a top-spec character (under its current economy) is basically either impossible or only achievable through ludicrous expense! I mean, at this point you might start to understand why some countries have effectively banned this game from being released. – The work they’ve put into figuring this all out, however, is excellent and appears (based on my own rough interpretation) to be entirely accurate and legitimate. As above, I’ve literally just given you the core information they’ve researched without going down the rabbit hole of how this pans out. If you truly want to understand this, I strongly recommend you check out their video which I’ve embedded above (you can also check out their channel via the link here). So, legitimately or quickly, what are players looking at here? Well, in terms of earning them through gameplay, ‘ Bellular News‘ suggests it would take something in the region of 10 years! – And in terms of just buying them? Oh, that’s only $110,000! (No, neither figures here are a typo!). – And yes, as you’ve probably guessed, while these can be ‘earned’ within the game, through microtransactions, you can take a shortcut. In other words, to get any better (aside from the randomness of low% item drops) you’ll require these to take one small step closer to having a fully maxed out character. With the ‘Legendary Gem’ system, this is essentially the only means players have to progress their character once the level cap has been reached. – The third, however, is where the problems (and greed) really start to appear. In gear and XP, the first two are pretty straightforward for any kind of RPG title. ![]() The character development system in Diablo Immortal is a little complicated, but in its simplest (and admittedly not 100% accurate terms), it basically boils down to three key areas. – And what lurks beneath? Well, according to YouTube channel ‘ Bellular News‘ quite possibly one of the more “predatory” microtransaction systems ever seen! Diablo Immortal – A Maxed Out Player? That’ll be $110,000 Please! That is, however, just on the surface of things. In fact, I’d nearly go as far as to say that it’s pretty good. So, putting all that history and catch up to one side, with it releasing last weekend, the fact of the matter is that, on the surface, Diablo Immortal is a fairly decent game. – The reveal did, in fact, go over so poorly that, eventually, Blizzard confirmed that Diablo Immortal would also be getting a PC release too. No, after a lot of hype, and a 100% dishonest bait and switch from Blizzard, this was not the much-anticipated Diablo PC/console announcement everyone wanted. – A moment somewhat cemented in the history of the internet when a moment in the Q&A led to a fan asking if this was “an out of season April fools joke” – To which came the cringe-worthy response “do you guys not have phones?!”. Diablo Immortal didn’t get off to the best of starts when it was initially revealed at Blizzcon back in 2018.
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