Officially released a few days ago, Diablo Immortal stands out for its microtransactions and lootboxes. To improve a character to the maximum, you will have to be rich.
Already strongly criticized before its release, Diablo Immortal continues the glitches. Activision Blizzard’s game has been banned from several countries and is even unplayable on some Samsung mobiles. The new discovery of a youtubeur is not likely to improve his young reputation.
Diablo Immortal, an infernal economic system?
The Youtube channel Bellular News has made a little calculation that will not please everyone. In Diablo Immortal, Blizzard offers players the possibility of acquiring gems at higher rarity levels, the legendaries. These legendary gems allowimprove your character to progress during the endgame. But two problems arise.
Some of these top-rated Legendary Gems are only obtainable, at the moment anyway, by paying with money and not just playing. The trouble is, to have a top notch character in this setup could cost players up to $110,000 according to Bellular News. And that’s not all.
Expensive, very expensive lootboxes
Indeed, the best rated legendary gems are randomly distributed… in lootboxes. Therefore, even if you choose to put your hand in the wallet to maximize your build, you are absolutely not guaranteed to hit the jackpot. Unlike Activision Blizzard.
In the Netherlands and Belgium, Diablo Immortal was precisely deprived of release for the presence of lootboxes. A Blizzard official then suggested:
Unfortunately, players from the Netherlands and Belgium will not be able to install Diablo Immortal due to gambling restrictions in those countries. The lootboxes in the game are against the law of your country, so unless gambling restrictions change, the game will not be released in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Although the ban is not linked to the observation of the youtubeur, we can see that this preventive measure to preserve the players from this drift. After the Star Wars Battlefront 2 scandal, one would have thought that publishers would be much more vigilant… All over the world, players are taking the problem head on and working to remove lootboxes.