![]() That locks free to play players out of a significant power boost. You can only buy Eternal Orbs with real money and you can only buy Eternal Legendary Crests with Eternal Orbs. By spending money on Eternal Orbs to buy Eternal Legendary Crests, players get more chances to gan Legendary gems and other powerful loot in a shorter amount of time. Eternal Orbs can buy things from simple cosmetic appearances to Crests which objectively allow players to game the Elder Rift system for more loot. In my opinion, the real difficulty is that Eternal Orbs can only be bought with real money - there’s no in-game way to earn Orbs, even at a slower rate. The Empowered Battle Pass and Boon of Plenty are somewhat comparable to picking up an expansion’s Collector’s Edition, and the cosmetic skins available for Eternal Orbs aren’t much different from a transmog set like the Celestial Observer’s Ensemble. It’s fair to say that there’s not much in the Diablo Immortal store that is much worse than any of that. Character level boosts, character transfer, faction change, and race change.Expansions and Collector’s Editions of expansions, which include extra cosmetic rewards and level boosts.WoW Tokens, which convert into in-game gold.Let’s take a moment to compare the stores in Diablo Immortal and World of Warcraft. Just how bad is the Diablo Immortal shop? It ultimately doesn’t matter if you can only get certain cosmetic sets with cash - these are cool, but you can also use cash But when you can gather heaps of Platinum and use your Elder Rift runs to get unbound Legendary Gems you can put on the market, you’ve engineered a system that will ultimately make cash purchases have a direct impact on how fast players can progress, especially once they reach the endgame. ![]() Most of this isn’t really that bad, but it’s less than ideal that there’s no way in game to get Eternal Orbs, which means the various things that can be purchased for Orbs are either impossible to get or extremely difficult to procure without a cash purchase. In Diablo 3, you can unlock extra stash tabs via Seasonal play, but in Immortal there’s currently only the Boon of Plenty. The Boon of Plenty is particularly egregious here, because on top of a bundle of Crests and other goodies, it gives you extra bag slots and remote Market access - but if you want to keep that bag slot increase and market access, you have to pay every month. And things like the Boon of Plenty or the Empowered Battle Pass, two separate monthly subscriptions that offer in-game benefits to make gameplay easier, are only available for cash. The shop doesn’t feel like it’s optional, or merely a way to progress faster - it feels almost like the only way to progress.Įternal Orbs, a form of currency that can be spent on the shop to purchase Eternal Legendary Crests (which give you a better chance to get good loot in Rifts) and other items, are only available from purchase via the shop with cash - you can’t get them from gameplay. That makes spending at least some money almost required for players who are sincere about pushing into that endgame. It’s not the existence of the shop itself that’s the problem: it’s that the shop offers items and rewards you can’t get any other way, and it gives you a shortcuts to achieving goals like gearing up in endgame. I think a lot of the backlash to the shop is hyperbolic and deliberately paints it as worse than it is, but that doesn’t make the shop good. I don’t like how Diablo Immortal’s shop works. I make Barbarians like candy, and Diablo Immortal is no different.īut even though I’m playing as a free to play player, the cash shop still manages to get in the way of enjoying the game.Įven if it’s optional, the real money shop feels like the best way to progress Look, you knew who I was when you started reading this. I’m enjoying leveling up, seeing the story, the character customization options (with many, many sliders), and I even like the gameplay, except for a few weird moments on the PC beta where I can’t seem to get button clicks to register. I’ve been playing the game since launch, and I’ve already said that I’m not paying for anything in it - I’m level 60 (with 8 Paragon levels) and have done so entirely on stuff I got through the game, plus I have about four alts in the 50s. I really like a lot about Diablo Immortal.
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