In an interview with the LA Times, Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra spoke about the Diablo Immortal in-game purchases. Ybarra says, there are in-game purchases, but they have also offered a free Diablo experience to millions of players…
Statement from the president on Diablo Immortal in-game purchases
“When it comes to monetization, how can you give millions of people a free Diablo experience where they can do exactly 99.5% of everything?” said Ybarra. 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. I feel really good about Diablo at this point.”
Diablo Immortal was released on June 2 and has been highly criticized for in-game purchases since its release. We even saw things like that there were even people who put $15,000 into the game and then burned all the ships . At this time, the big publishers started to abandon the game. While this leaf fall is going on for Diablo Immortal, the statements made by the Blizzard president are also like this.
In addition, it reportedly costs you $110,000 to fully develop your character in the game. That’s why Diablo Immortal turned into the lowest-rated game in history last month on Metacritic because of its in-game purchases. User ratings were 0.2, now it has risen to 0.3.
Despite all this, a spokesperson for Blizzard told the LA Times that most of the players don’t spend any money at all. The game has generated $ 49 million in revenue since its release.
