The Immoral Design of Diablo Immortal

oh boy

josh strife hayes takes apart diablo immortal

Did you see his update to it?

oh frick yeah update >:3c

The Immoral Design of Diablo Immortal - Legendary Cr...

Every time I think Diablo Immortal couldn't get worse, it somehow does

The Legendary / Eternal Legendary thing infuriates me to no end. I know gatcha games are designed to be opaque and predatory, but leave it to Blizzard to find a way to go above and beyond

it's like they're trying to make a gacha so bad that the others look saintly in comparison

Ah, but that's the final sleight of hand

Since you have to grab and turn the key yourself, it's "not a lootbox"; since there's gameplay between purchase and payout it's "not a gacha", which is just, guh. This is the corruption that ruins any economic system, not just capitalism

the punchline to this is that apparently in some countries they straight up can't release it because it violates anti lootbox/gambling rules lol

all that runaround for nothing

Oh, it's not for nothing since they're still fleecing the US

yeah but their attempts to be like TECHNICALLY it's not gambling did not pass muster

Honestly, it's not even about fleecing the US, it's about fleecing China since these types of things are big over there

ah yes

China, who actiblizz has been demonstrably buddy-buddy with

ah yes