As a childhood fan of all things Blizzard (clocked in thousands of hours on their games), Activision has destroyed any respect I had for this company. They defiled every franchise, and Diablo Immortal is a sickening game.
Sincerely hope the deal falls through and the company goes bankrupt.
To be honest, I thought Diablo Immortal was pretty good if it weren’t for the micro transactions. The fact that it was a free game made certain parts super slow and grindy to incentivize purchases, but if it were a real game you have to buy, I’d have thought it was pretty good. It makes me think the game designers there are still good, they’re just held back by the business people.
I actually only (re-)learned of the game recently (I recall its original announcement), but not enough to know anything more about it and I have been meaning to go back to it and check it out. Do you have a short version of what lends you that opinion?
It's fundamentally "pay to win" - money spent matters more than skill or mechanical mastery. Since it has a PvP mode, this means that if you're not whaling you're just krill for the whales to kill.
I think the biggest issue people point to is you have to sink literally 10 years or $100,000 into the game to fully upgrade a character with how the rewards are structured/priced.
I've been playing Diablo 1 for about two decades, not every day and not every year, but I assure you it is countless hours. I have not found all the items that would perfect my characters. It takes an extraordinary amount of time to find them. Some items I may never find in all my life. I enjoy playing the game. Some people are willing to play, some pay.
So by 10 years I don't mean playing casually for a decade, it's literally 90,000 hours. And Diablo Immortal is a little different being a PVP game, having good gear doesn't just let you solo dungeons, it means people paying their way into kicking your ass every time.
Sincerely hope the deal falls through and the company goes bankrupt.