Blizzard president Mike Ybarra made statements about Diablo Immortal’s in-game purchases. According to the company, everything is fine.
LA Times In an interview with Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra, he talked about Diablo Immortal in-game purchases. Ybarra says there are in-game purchases, but they also offered a free Diablo experience to millions of players…
Statement from the president on Diablo Immortal in-game purchases
As for the monetization part, how can you give millions of people a free Diablo experience where they can do 99.5% of everything? said. He added that the issue of making money comes after the game. “Our philosophy was to lead a game where millions of people could completely finish the script (Diablo Immortal) with great gameplay at no cost. At this point I feel really good about Diablo.”
Diablo Immortal was released on June 2 and has been highly criticized for in-game purchases since its release. In fact, we saw such things that there were even those who put 15,000 dollars into the game and then burned all the ships. Around this time, major publishers began to abandon the game. While this leaf fall for Diablo Immortal continues, this is the statement made by the Blizzard president.
Additionally, it’s reportedly costing you $110,000 to fully develop your character in the game. Here Diablo Immortal turned into the lowest rated game in history on Metacritic last month due to in-game purchases. User ratings were 0.2, now it has increased to 0.3.
Despite all this, a spokesperson for Blizzard argued to the LA Times that most players don’t spend any money. The game has earned $49 million in revenue since its release.