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It remains to be seen whether Blizzard will make any changes following this backlash against Diablo Immortal, but fans can't be blamed for feeling upset. Over the years, these elements have been compared to gambling, and some gamers will completely avoid anything that features microtransactions, as a result.

Free-to-play games are able to generate billions in revenue for their developers, but there is a predatory element that can come into play. Microtransactions and pay-to-win elements have been a big concern for gamers over the last few years. That's a ridiculous amount of money, and it's led to a lot of frustration for long-time fans of the Diablo franchise. According to reporting from Bellular News, (via Game Rant) it costs $110,000 to fully gear up one character. While Diablo fans have been happy with some parts of the game, Blizzard Entertainment has seen a lot of backlash over the last few days over the pay-to-win elements. liking or not liking a game based on misinformation surrounding it.Diablo Immortal released last week, and fans have now had a few days to get a feel for what the free-to-play game has to offer. There’s a difference between players liking or not liking a game based on its merits (which I can accept, not every game is for everybody) vs. I don’t like it if information is misleading. He was later asked why he chose to respond to such criticism and replied: “Thanks for asking. During a Q&A at BlizzCon, fans booed the games principal designer, Wyatt Cheng, after he confirmed. Summary: Diablo® Immortal is a mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Action RPG (MMOARPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment in partnership with NetEase, coming exclusively to Android, iPhone and iPad. Theres been some backlash over Blizzards decision to develop Diablo Immortal for mobile only. It’s currently almost $12 to just simply even try to upgrade one piece of gear as the ‘failure rate’ is 50/50.’ I think it’s pretty clear with the game out that this was not the case.” Overwhelming dislike based on 4937 Ratings. In context I was responding to a post that claimed ‘you can only upgrade your gear with $$$ once you reach the free quota of the day. He also added: “The post you made come across and disingenuous (sic) and disappointing to people that have been fans of Blizzard for such a long time and it makes the matter a lotless important if you can’t ‘literally’ buy gear when you ‘basically’ can buy power anyway.”Ĭheng responded: “That’s totally fair criticism and I can see how it came across that way.