And at what point does an F2P player hit a wall in terms of their ability to participate in the game unless they start spending money? I've seen alternative calculations accounting for changes to drop rates in this beta version that now place the sum as "low" as £35,000 / $50,000 (in other words, just as ridiculously high when you think about it).īut what are you actually paying for in each individual microtransaction? The game isn't going to simply ask you for £88K in one go, after all. We already have that shocking £88,000 total figure, which I have no reason to dispute it would be possible to spend on this game.
I'm not interested in casting judgement on people who want to play a game that others have legitimate grievances with, but I was curious as to what the real cost of Diablo Immortal is. The issue here, of course, is that Diablo Immortal (like many F2P games) is arguably not really free-to-play. The fact that it's attached to an existing big-name franchise presumably helps boost that feeling of participation a lot too, which a cynic might say is the point. Finances are tight for a lot of people right now, and an F2P game that runs well on mobile devices and relatively low-end PCs can feel like a lifeline to gamers who can't currently afford to put a lot of money into their hobby. However, it's clear that a lot of people are still playing Diablo Immortal, which, despite the various controversies surrounding its release, has become one of the most popular new games this June. This, coupled with the ongoing investigations into allegations of serious misconduct at publisher/developer studio Blizzard Entertainment, has quite understandably been enough to put many players off the game entirely. You might have seen reports going around that it costs somewhere in the region of £88,000 / $110,000 to fully upgrade a character (and that an F2P player would need to grind for ten years to earn the same upgrade materials for free). What is the real cost of Diablo Immortal, and is it in fact pay-to-win? Diablo Immortal is already infamous for its microtransaction monetisation model, which many players have pointed out are effectively loot boxes under a not-even-that-different name.
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