The compulsive and crazy purchases, then the humiliating joke: an avid player of Diablo Immortal he spent more than $100,000 in microtransactions to make his character stronger, essentially putting him in limbo that prevents him from playing with other players.
The main character of this story is the creator of the content jtisallbusinessa streamer broadcasting his gaming sessions on Twitch.
Since its launch, Diablo Immortal has been heavily criticized by gamers and the press for its overly aggressive game economy. A model defined by many pay to win, where not only are microtransactions essential to level up quickly, but it is also necessary to spend insane amounts to reach the level cap. By a rough estimate, it takes about $100,000 to fully upgrade a character.
And jtisallbusiness was eager to test this theory. The problem is that after spending so much money live, the streamer couldn’t connect to the lobbies anymore. It’s probably the fault ofMMR of the game, algorithms designed to insert users into games with players of a similar level to theirs. By spending $100,000, jtisallbusiness has reached too high a level and there are no other players in the community to play with.
Jtisallbusiness has announced that it has started a dialogue with the help of: snow storm, hoping to get the money back, or at least work with them to find a solution to the problem. The streamer also announced that he will turn to his lawyers if his demands are not met. It’s not so wrong: Spending $100,000 not even being able to play seems like a beautiful and good injustice.
However things go, the market has rewarded Activision Blizzard’s aggressive strategy. In just 8 weeks, Diablo Immortal has already generated more than $100 million in microtransactions. For the company’s shareholders this is excellent news, for the players somewhat less so: the risk is that the pay-to-win model based on random Loot will come back into fashion after it seemed like it was once and for all. to replace. all through forms of healthier income.
Source: Lega Nerd
