I disagree with this assessment, and it ignores the expectations that Blizzard itself has spent decades creating in its fans. It’s pretty clear to us that there is a huge audience around the world that is gonna love this title. “So I actually think that those two items are being conflated. “The way I’ve been kind of looking at the mixed comments is what those folks are really saying is they desperately, passionately want the next big thing,” Allen Adham, executive producer and Blizzard co-founder told Polygon in a previous interview. And interviews after the controversial press conference indicate that the company may be confused about why fans are so angry. For more on the game, check out this story that's even better than the headline: Diablo Immortal player uses premium currency shenanigans to turn old WoW tokens into a whale-killing Necromancer.Blizzard wasn’t ready for the immediate, and overwhelmingly negative, fan reaction to the announcement of Diablo: Immortal. Some Diablo fans may not be happy with Diablo Immortal, in other words, but Blizzard certainly seems to be. It has also seemed, at times, that critics were going to extreme lengths to make arguments against the game, throwing around over-inflated numbers that don't really reflect how any normal person would play (a quick youtube search for the topic finds one content creator claiming the game has $110,000 worth of microtransactions).
Mobile game monetization is an easy piñata for us all to take swings at, but microtransactions remain the dominant business model for mobile games: and there's a lot worse out there than Diablo Immortal.
That being said, Ybarra may have a wider point (though that certainly won't stop Immortal's critics). For Diablo Immortal and games like it, the fun parts of games are money extraction devices." The important question being: well, is Diablo Immortal any good then? PCG's Tyler Colp took a look and described it as a game designed to exploit your love of Diablo: "It's built around the dopamine that comes from whacking demon piñatas for loot, meticulously designed to give you a jolt of satisfaction every 30 seconds-and then, when that's not enough anymore, it charges you for it.
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