I might change my word once I reach the truly end-game. We'll see how long the game lasts as well, but IMO I might be seeing a massive amount of over or mis-reaction to this. Seems like actual game knowledge, and play time invested on the game trumps "paying 2 win". People were buying items off of ebay all day long, and I could spot them from a miles away, we used to call them "ebays", but the thing is, even if they spent $100s, I was still managing to having more wealth than them, and completely demolishing them in PVP as well. So how P2W is the game really? Sure, it might be possible to "P2W", and I probably don't encourage that type of model like pretty much seemingly everyone, but keep in mind, people are paying to win in POE as well on these RTM sites, and how much of it is actually affecting the game? They are all #1, they have some of the best items, if not the best items. At least up to where I'm at.Īs for the end-game, I've been watching 3-4 streams of people all claiming to be #1 on the leaderboard right now, and one of them saying they even got the best item on the server, and they all have spent pretty much $0 money or $0 on the game so far. So for the campaign, you can definitely play for free. In fact, if something, the game might be a bit too easy as I think I only died once so far. But for those that actually cared about Diablo 2's story and lore and characters, DI has a fair bit of nostalgia to offer, and it does so very early on and absolutely, truly for free.Įxcept there seems to be a bit of a misconception here, but I could be wrong, as I'm only seeing this from my very limited experience of DI so far, and what I have been seeing on Stream so take the following with a grain of salt, but as opposed to pretty much everyone who cry too much about P2W, I actually decided to keep playing, up to lvl 39 so far, as the game has been enjoyable so far.Īnd let me tell you, as P2W people were saying this game is (and it might be quite a bit), I have not yet spent 1 cent on the game yet, and my character is far from gimp and does not seem needed to pay to progress through the campaign easily. But since a lot of Exiles are also coded into seeing endgame as the only game (thanks GGG) I can understand the scorn and scepticism. As with what GGG did with 3.18, better to release something contentious you can tone down than something that could have been worse but the players already accept.Īt any rate, I guess I just want Exiles, being also for the most part big fans of the Diablo franchise overall, to give it a chance on its own merits, looking past the gruesome mtx model baked into its endgame. Blizzard might tone the GRift down, but even then it'll probably still be well within their scope as insanely profitable. But as I noted above, it's sort of futile at this point. Streamers and more in-depth reviewers will happily take the monetisation of DI to task I believe. That's not surprising: usually when people review a GAAS, it's more about those first 10-20 hours during which mtxes aren't really an issue. Anything else is a waste of time.Īnd yeah, I noticed some of the reviews had mtxes disabled. That doesn't mean it's not predatory AF with the mtxes - at this point, that's a given and I think people need to either accept that or move on. As far as mobile games go, it's anything but low effort. I just sat through the credits of the game trying to spot some voice actors (they were right at the end.) and believe me, literally thousands of people worked on DI. I am happy to admit when I am wrong, and in the case of DI I was really wrong. I found myself effortlessly getting up to level 30-35 in DI as all the classes (which is very rare for me with an ARPG, especially one on mobile) and that's when I realised, wow, I'm genuinely enjoying this game. I am definitely skewing a wee bit defensive here because I did get to play it in a closed beta and I was absolutely surprised at how good it was even then compared to the debacle of its announcement and the fact that I was pretty sure it was just a low-effort reskin of an existing NetEase Diablo clone.
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