You can play it without paying but good luck with the end-game content. To get the most out of a single item at that stage in the game you either have to pay or wait multiple weeks.
If it was a mainline Diablo game I might, but that's not the kind of product they're selling. If I chose to treat it as such I would be dropping significantly more than the usual 60-70 dollars. That's a bad deal, even more so for those with gambling tendencies.
I got probably a thousand hours out of Diablo 2 for $100 total. Somehow I feel like the value proposition of $110,000 to have a maxed out character isn’t so great.
I can't believe people are even playing devil's advocate here. The
level of quality has dropped so far the company should go bankrupt over games like this in a world not driven by perverse incentives.
These US-based companies that made a couple good games really have too much goodwill going for them. Same with Bethesda. Imagine if CDProject did something like this, the snarky anglo hate would be infinite.
I mean a lot of US companies are like this. Some grifter VC firm buys the face of your favorite thing then starts pumping out garbage and gaslights you for noticing. The people who worked on Diablo 2 or even the original World of Warcraft are long since gone.
I’ve even noticed it with Cocomelon, the YouTube toddler show, funny enough. Then I looked it up and realized it had been bought by a kids show corporation. I could just tell! The episodes are just different and weird somehow. Like the lessons they’re teaching seem off. Before it was just an enterprising mom and dad running a YouTube channel teaching wholesome values.
It also explains all the new toys and marketing around it.
There's a lot of MTX but my guess is that $100k number will change over time. Surely they'll introduce new tiers to reach (or buy). You'll never finish... but on the other hand it's pointless to be maxed out anyway.
