OneDiablo ImmortalYouTuber has spent over $100,000 on the game’s cash shop in order to craft an impossibly powerful character capable of utterly destroying PvP competitors. In an unfortunate twist, the player has such a high matchmaking rating thatDiablo Immortalis no longer pairing him up with PvP opponents.
Diablo Immortalis the latest in Blizzard’s extremely popularDiabloseries of action RPGs that have defined the genre since 1996. The games have generally been highly successful thanks to the satisfyingly brutal combat against hordes of demons, massive variety of character-build possibilities, and a veritable dopamine drip of increasingly powerful showers of loot.Diablo Immortalwas highly anticipated as it’s been 10 years sinceDiablo 3,with manyplayers looking forward to the game’s convenient crossplay functionality allowing them to play on both mobile devices and PC. Typical of mobile games, however,Diablo Immortalis plagued by predatory monetizationthat has led to players spending exorbitant amounts of money in order to make progress.
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YouTuber jtisallbusiness has reportedly invested a staggering $100,000 into making his Barbarian one of the most powerful characters among themillions who playDiablo Immortal. This has resulted in an extremely high PvP win rate that has placed jtisallbusiness’s rating so high thatDiablo Immortal’s matchmaking system can no longer find opponents. According to jtisallbusiness, he spends “somewhere around 48 to 72 hours somewhere in between that of only trying to queue for a Battleground and never being able to get one.”
The primary motivation forspending thousands of dollars onDiablo Immortalis, of course, to stomp other players, and it’s problematic that those who invest the most into the game are unable to participate. The game’s Rite of Exile event requires his clan to defend its Immortals status through PvP Battlegrounds matches, meaning jtisallbusiness has to remain on the sidelines while waiting hopelessly for the game’s matchmaking. Other members of his clan have also reportedly spent thousands of dollars on their characters, so it’s uncertain if his clan will be successful in this event if other members are also unable to find matches.
Diablo Immortal’s monetizationhas been a major point of contention for fans of Blizzard’s action RPGs. The aggressive microtransaction system incessantly demands cash investment to speed up progress, meanwhile players who do spend thousands onDiablo Immortalare faced with their own problems. The combination of irritating mobile game mechanics and unrewarding odds even for big-spending “whales” has been frustrating to allDiablo Immortalplayers, though many players have remarked that it’s difficult to feel sorry for someone who spends more than most people’s yearly salary on a video game character.
Diablo Immortalis available on Mobile and PC.
