Diablo Immortal: Pay2Win accusation – Wyatt Cheng makes it worse again
Sometimes we feel that Wyatt Cheng is completely overwhelmed with the difficult project Diablo Immortal. When making the announcement during BlizzCon 2018, the game director not only didn’t cut a good figure, he shook with his response, “No, there will be no PC version of Immortal, you all have smartphones.“also fuel the fire of fan disappointment. His current posts, with which he wanted to defend his baby against the Pay2Win allegations, are similarly difficult.
Pay2Win or no Pay2Win?
As early as May 2022, reports from beta players indicated that there is definitely a Pay2Win mechanism behind the legendary gems. There are now numerous reports and videos on the release version of Diablo Immortal that have examined the payment model even more closely. Above all, it is viral a video by Bellular gone, in which Michael and Matt claim that you have to invest an estimated 100,000 euros in a character to equip it to the maximum. In a later tweet However, Michael emphasizes that they had by no means calculated it completely.
Either way, the Pay2Win allegations are in the air. Supported by decision-makers from Belgium and the Netherlands, who prevented the launch of Diablo Immortal in the respective country due to loot boxes. Diablo creates Immortal on Metacritics (buy now ) hence the feat of doing even worse than other Blizzard fails like Warcraft 3: Reforged (0.5 versus 0.6 user score).
How does Wyatt Cheng react?
Many players not only criticize that there are these Pay2Win elements, but also that game director Wyatt Cheng in this Reddit post claimed that you cannot buy equipment or equipment upgrades for money in Diablo Immortal. And what does Cheng say about that? Well, this:
“Hey Ziz, I’ve said pretty openly in many interviews (although obviously not in this post) that gear is the twelve item slots. In many interviews I’ve also stated clearly that money can be used to upgrade Gems and Legendary Gems. I’m sorry this wasn’t clear.
Not being able to buy gear (the twelve slots) or XP remains important to the team.”
So while Legendary Gems are not part of Wyatt Cheng’s gear or gear upgrades, players understood this to mean that there is no way to increase character power through real money investments. Cheng’s explanations were therefore not well received. The same applies to a third post, in which Cheng states that he dislikes misleading information such as “you can’t buy gear in Diablo”. The chief developer was then allowed to hear that he was the one who had previously spread misleading information about Diablo Immortal. how do you see it?
Reference-www.buffed.de