Diablo Immortal is now available for iPhone, iPad and Android devices, as well as PC in beta version, and far from grabbing headlines in these early days for its quality as a video game, it is actually doing so for its free to play (or free to play) status. pay to win as some say) and Blizzard’s attempt to turn the franchise into something it has never been. But times change and we just have to get used to seeing things like this more often.
How much do you need to spend?
When Diablo Immortal arrived in the digital stores of iOS and Android, Blizzard wanted us to clarify the message that nothing we could buy within the game would affect the gameplay itself . In other words, whether you pay or not, your character will have the same equipment statistics as another player who decides to spend money, since they would only change the items on a purely aesthetic level. Something similar to what happens in Fortnite , where players spend on accessories and clothes to show off their wardrobe. The problem is that this has been shown to be untrue.
And because? Well, because the game has a resource that is the legendary gems, which can only be collected within the improved flaws that we enter by activating crests and that without them, they do not bring us more than standard rewards. Also, and unlike what Blizzard claims, those special gems do have a direct impact on the player’s stats, so they do affect how easy it is to then remove enemies from rifts and other areas of Immortal Devil.
In total, seeing the content available within the game, the level 50 that we can reach and the legendary gems that are necessary to raise all the statistics of our hero, some have ventured to advance that if we want to shorten the time necessary to To get hold of it, we can choose two options: either play continuously for 10 years in a row, or drop around $100,000 in micropayments within Diablo Immortal . That’s not counting the entire fund of the game store where things are offered such as extra inventory slots that we can acquire to carry more objects with us… and that at the height of the heights are reset with each new season. So at the end of the current one we will have to pay again.
The calculations of such an expense
There are several sources that have worked in recent days to make this calculation and the truth is that things look bad for players who, even if they spend many hours on it, want at some point to have a reward that significantly improves their statistics. It has been in forums like Reddit, and even some youtubers , who have sounded the alarm, calculating the cost they consider necessary for a player to reach the maximum level of power in the game. This is the case of the one that we leave you here below, which indicates the basic points of how the Diablo Immortal pay to win system works .
As we tell you, the key is in those legendary gems and, above all, how to get them within the faults that are activated with the use of crests. As the game is conceived and the maximum levels that our character can reach in his different stats, it is how the spending limit that we would have to pay out of $100,000 is set. That, without counting all the cosmetic sets of weapons and tiers that are already offered at prices starting from 25 euros (1,000 coins) to 30 (1,500 coins), including chests with coins and other resources that are needed within the game.
What do you think of this business model adopted by Diablo Immortal ?
