Hell, at those prices they should just put up a share incentive plan on top of the in-game shop to make it worth your while to spend ridiculous sums on character power.
They do, they just see it as gambling, not gaming. Blizzard don`t want to pay the taxes. it is legal to gamble in Holland and Belgium, it`s just not allowed to pretend you don`t when you do. Selling casino chips and selling art work is not the same tax rate.
These are no longer videogames. They are slot/gambling machines disguising as videogames, preying on the vulnerable. This is disgusting and should be illegal. Remember that these...''games'' ruin lives by siphoning the finances of people who cannot always afford such expenses, and they do so with intensive psychological manipulation. Traditional gambling is regulated, but since the law is falling behind on practices as always, many countries are too slow (or corrupt) to recognize this new method of gambling for what it is. I hope they eventually ban this shit altogether.
I'm not defending Diablo immortal, but people at the other end of the spectrum such as yourself aren't helping gamers either. Let me guess. You don't think any game deserves a single penny from you. All the hours of gaming experience in your entire life should be free of charge to you. No game developer should ever be paid a single dollar. Right? This is the kind of consumer mentality that gave birth to "Free to play" games in the first place. If there is a good game that you've enjoyed for hundreds of hours, of course it's worth $60-$100, maybe even more. You're just cheap or broke and it shows in your mentality. Now you get the kinds of games you deserve. Go play them for "free".
@@user92714 I don't mind paying for games, but you are just absurdly dull to think that a game like Diablo immortal should even exist with such practices, it does nothing but set back the industry
@@user92714 yeah and people like you are assuming thoughts on someone else, even thou what they said has nothing to do with your way of thinking over them.
"Your death heals party members for 2% of their life" That's probably the most depressing and unintentional (or intentional) "F*ck you, you worthless trash" description of a buff. And the fact that it's on a rare or legendary gear adds more insult.
Just a brief summary: You don't have to play every game until the very very end. Play a game a little bit, get bored, move on to a new game or thing like regular human beings. Frankly, there's a lot out there. Problem solved, zero money spent on Diablo Immortal.
@@VesperAegis That's a very narrow viewpoint that doesn't reflect current gaming. The sole appeal of many games is how they keep growing and evolving over the years.
@@VesperAegis that's a pretty shit argument. that's like telling people "just don't get addicted to heroine" obviously most aren't going to. but then normalize taking heroine what do you think is gonna happen?
@@nearlydead7510 watching a streamer spend $100 and make no progress, "agitates" spending from viewers? For this particular game, I feel like it dissuades viewers.
@@pancakekidgaming8273 yes, it does. viewers see him spending money and some will do it too. that is what happens, because they will also treat it like a joke. like it's funny to spend money on a cash grab mobile game. or they just simp for their favourite streamer and want to belong. either way, those streamers talking about the game and playing it and spending tons of money on it like they do, showing this to hundred thousands of viewers, is only benefitting blizzard in the end.
I was a bit annoyed when they announced the gaming not being released in my country (Netherlands). I can now say I feel totally fine about it. Let's make this a turning point.
Haha this game is so bad and predatory. Absolutely disgusting Blizzard! Noone should support this game! Let me just pump thousands of dollars into it to let Blizzard know how much I dont like this game. Fuck streamers. I didnt think someone could be dumber then Asmongold but here we are.
@@WarbossFraka Dude nobody is debating the fact he has disposable income because he's a loser who gets paid to sit home all day. It's the fact he spends that much on a video game that 90% of people knew would be monetized. He's supporting the system he claims to be against while sucking ad revenue and funds from viewers. These viewers also may go out and do the same thing because some people have no self control. You know what he should of done against this predatory game? Not played it. Not to mention spend hundreds of dollars on it. Just because he collects money and can afford it doesn't mean what he's doing is right. I'm not sure how that concept is lost on so many people these days.
@@Sector9Prime Conversely, by playing it and showing how BS the monetization is, many people would be inclined to NOT play the game, causing a much bigger loss to Blizzard than they would gain from 1 semi-whale shelling out $500. Though I do still think you can do that without actually playing and paying for the game, some people just wanna see how far it goes out of morbid curiosity. So long as they’re encouraging viewers not to as well, I don’t think it’s huge problem imo.
I hate all these guys saying "Diablo Immortal is LITERALLY evil! Blizzard should not be doing this!" yet they still spend hundreds of dollars on the game which directly incentivizes Blizzard to keep doing this.
Blizzard would love for nothing more than this game to be not talked about whatsoever. Just completely uncontroversial. The few thousands these guys are spending to demonstrate what a predatory design this game has, is a drop in the bucket to the millions upon millions of dollars that Blizzard is raking in, and the absolute billions per year that the mobile game industry is already making. But what spending that money allows them to do is start up a public controversy similar to what we had with Battlefront 2, which ultimately lead to Belgium and the Netherlands passing bills that outlaw this kind of monetisation. That's also why Diablo Immortal isn't playable in those countries unless you're on a VPN. Asmongold ended up spending like $2200 on Diablo Immortal to show us how fucking ridiculous it is. If that money goes towards making more countries aware of this and passing laws like Belgium and the Netherlands did, that shrinks the exploitable market even further and eventually forces this predatory monetisation out of games entirely.
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If you're talking about asmongold and quin, I think what they did was good and bad. The bad, obviously, is giving money to blizzard. The good being that many people will never ever give blizz their money now, realizing what a third-rate, cash grab company they have become that even after spending 10k, you're still not fully decked out. That 10k spent has engraved that into my brain.
Asmongold had spent $349 on Diablo Immortal already. Let's see what else that money could buy: - Red Dead Redemption 2: $60 - Witcher 3: $30 - Doom Eternal: $40 - Crusader Kings 3: $50 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps: $30 - Cyberpunk 2077: $60 - Hitman 3: $60 - Spelunky 2: $20 That's 8 games that will provide hundreds of hours of fun. If you play more indie games and wait for sales you can easily get 2x, 3x or 4x more games with that amount of money. I honestly don't understand why anyone would waste their money on this crap.
I’ve played it a bit on my iPad, and really haven’t felt the need to buy anything. I just play alone though so maybe there is more of a push when grouping up?
or i can just save my money and download from torrent games like max payne 1 , mafia 1 , dragon age origins , fallout new vegas , kotor 1 , heroes 3 ... and just not waste my money for modern pay2win crap . i am just saying .
seeing asmongold spend hundreds and then reacting to other videos with exaggerated expressions in his thumbnails fills me with the urge to shave all of his skin with a rusty razor blade
@@korana6308 These types of mobile games started in Asia and from what I can tell are very popular there, no idea where you get the western part from. It's only now that Western companies are getting into it properly with whale games or whatever you want to call them. I guess Farmville could be considered one of them, but I've never seen anything about it that stands out, seems like a more normal-pointless mobile game, or desktop game turned mobile, I don't know. Still, some or many of them make more proper mobile games like CoD, Apex Legends and Battlefield. I'm not sure about the CoD one though, I tried it and more than half the players seemed like bots. Maybe it's just filled with 5 year olds. There are also PC games ported to mobile like Terraria, that work very similarly to their PC versions. Whenever I see anyone having spent a lot of money on a mobile game, it's almost always a Chinese dude. Some Japanese and Korean ones sprinkled in IIRC. I assume the other Asian countries either are too poor to gamble like that or too unknown to reach global articles. Not that I'm often reading about gambling and such, but I saw many mobile games randomly clicking through the play store on PC this one time. Same time I looked up those two games I had ads for, really weird ads eventually. I was about to write that I forgot both of them, but I'm certain one is "Hero Wars". I finally stopped getting it maybe 2 months ago, sometimes it's like CZcams can properly show you ads and other times it gets stuck on this one thing for 2 years. Hero Wars and Hello Fresh have been these long-lasting ads. If I've already seen an ad once, why do I want to see it again? If I was given more variety, I have a higher chance to come across something I would never click on, but maybe would look up 3 years from now. A lot of people seem to play mobile games, it's uncommon for any given game to have less than 10k reviews, many have over a million. I still don't know what there is to do in these games, they're not necessarily all gambling games, but they all seem to have similarly pointless gameplay to them. There are also pervert games, where you seem to "collect" women, busty ones mostly and if catering to pedos, little girls too. Azur Lane was one that I saw on my front page for a while, I guess because I never properly used the store, so it didn't know what to update into. It eventually updated and Azur Lane is no longer there, but it took what feels like 3 years for it to do so. I just use the play store to update already installed programs. What am I supposed to do in the play store but update stuff like the bank app and once a year the tax app I guess. I have a crossword thing or whatever you can call it, but after a few minutes it was giving me the same words in different locations, so I quit. Not much variety there, I would've eventually been able to get through it by just using letters from words in the past. Felt like it was 25 words chosen and placed in different spots. Memorise those 25 words and the game is the same. Even with PC-like games such as Terraria, I just question..if it's on PC, why not play it there? Why go outside and end up staring at the phone.
The scene from Full Metal Jacket where they hold the guy down and everyone beats him with soap. That's what everyone in Blizzard needs right now. Including the coffee getting 19 year old intern.
he looks like a person who knows that their interviewpartner knows they're lying. "will there be microtransactions" "AhaHahAhaHAha..." *you know I can't answer that please k*ll me*
@@probablyilliterate Not L at all. People want the government to make those regulations, the government is even more shameless than those companies. When they start to take what they think is their due, you'll be fucked either way, or even more fucked. This sort of thing is supposed to sort itself out. Everyone has the power to stop it by boycoting those companies and stop buying what they're selling, stop playing their games. Its the only way for the situation to be beneficial to the players.
@@abnnizzy But you can't just stop whales from spending on the game if there's actually 0 limit for how much you can spend on the game. If they weekly donate 1k+ dollars, the game is already a success and they don't have to do shit. Even if it's just simply the whales playing, they still spend on the game like crazy.
The fact they're spending so much money on Diablo Immortal while shitting on the game makes these players look like actual clowns. Imagine being the literal biggest supporters of what you hate without anyone forcing you to do it.
They make back more in their streams and its a good way to show off just how insane the micro transactions are so you don't waste your money since most of these streamers have expendable income
@@CodeeXD They do, but nevertheless, the money will still flow to Blizzard, basically supporting their business plan. And basically 5k+ dollars are not a small amount.
@@hunlepto2239 It is in the long run if it successfully kills profits. The development for the game still costs a fairly hefty amount so it is about figuring out how long it takes for the game to die out. A mark of a good gacha game is longevity and the model for Diablo immortal... doesn't seem to show that. Heavy monetization aside, it doesn't lend itself well to long term sustainability, only short term gain.
They're basically a company that exists to get their hand into your wallet. The games that do get designed under them are not games first monetization later, its the opposite. And I see this with immortal.
okay so i did some research because people are saying the usual gacha games like FGO, GBF, Genshin (as Forbes wrote) are better than Diablo Immortal. That shocked me because that means Diablo Immortal fucked up elsewhere massively. Here's from a mobile gamer perspective (i played on PC and mobile btw) : 1. Legendary Crests are just like your usual gacha rolls but with extra steps like clearing the rift first. so far it's the usual deal. 2. Battle Pass on top of that, Honkai Impact did this also but not a deal breaker on the surface until you see the battle pass level up purchase, Even Master Duel did not do it like that and IIRC Honkai Impact 3 does not do Battle Pass upgrade purchase either AKA you gotta grind them by playing 3. In-game Store has something that irked me. You saw the +800% Extra Value at 0:09. other items also have this +???% Extra Value, why emphasize this unless the target is to trigger spending with these value numbers 4. Boon of Plenty and Prodigy's Path feels like you have 3 Battle Passes in game. all have paid options 5. The rates to get a 5/5* gem and the others is not shown directly in game, that is a bad sign there from the get go and Blizz did it first with Overwatch and remember they don't want to reveal the rates at all to the point that the chinese players gets a different MTX scheme instead because China mandated that the rates be shown totally 6. The design decision to make players can upgrade 2*/5 gem until 5*/5 gem is clearly aiming for a pay to win scheme here, usually if you get a 3* it stays 3* forever but you can maximize for something like a 3* only squad but this is not that kind of game 7. Farming Eternal Orbs or Legendary Crest is almost impossible when compared to other games where you can hoard your premium currency (like Saint Quartz for FGO) for a rainy day WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY later (read : sudden target banner or limited banner) 8. Hidden caps, as Forbes wrote there are hidden caps like lower exp or a lower drop rate once you get to a certain point per day. Actively hindering your players everyday? wow........ Conclusion : Too many Monetization schemes that is built so deep and game design decisions that supports this type of monetization seems to be the main culprit alongside "Pay to Skip Grind" solution that is offered. No wonder people call Diablo Immortal WAAAAAY worse that the other games, and that is coming from a day 1 player of FGO.
"We asked everyone what was going on, the game directors, the board moderators, the CEOS, Bobby Kotick, J Barack Allens, my fellow teammates, other programmers and teams in Blizzard and Activision and also the Janitor staff and Taxi Drivers, we have asked everyone about Diablo Immoral and what they think about and they gave excellent to good feedback I don't know who on earth we could of missed we must have been just unlucky !!!"
They basically just asked around in their own disgusting filthy "greedy mofo" echochamber. Its' like asking a bank to regulate themselves. "We could not find any evidence of fraud or insider trade". Yeah right.
Been a Blizzard fan and player ever since Lost Vikings my heart sinks when i see what happened to my absolute favorite gaming company. But i guess everything in life ends so did the Blizzard we once knew and loved. All the OG devs are out of there anyway all that remains is Blizzard name and amazing memories i made playing so many of their games and having so much fun.
1:45 “We really spent a lot of time trying to understand where we went wrong… we spent a lot of time talking to each other” Dude, you KNOW where you went wrong from the infamous first announcement: mobile game, no PC version, and then micro transactions. It really isn’t hard.
Except Diablo 3 was a great game, and they quickly took the cash auction house out of the game and fixed the loot balance in order to make good with all the players they pissed off. This bullshit though... unacceptable.
@@pogtuber5146 No it was so dogshit that an indie company working from their fcking garage made a 100x times better game called path of exile that threw d3 into the garbage can so fast blizzard completely stopped supporting it
@@pogtuber5146 "quickly took out", you mean after a year? I wouldn't be surprised if they had people making alts to profilt even more selling spawned gear to the average gamer.
@@pogtuber5146 Agreed, I enjoyed D3 after the changes and let's hope D4 will not look anything like this. I am a Diablo fan and pains me to see what they've done to Diablo Immortal
this game is basically hand crafted for asian market, asians love p2w shit and are willing to spend ton of money to have an leverage against other players to compensate for their uncomplished lives
You forgot the part where they litterally intentionally trick you with 3 kinds of crests. By hiding one of them. The package and f2p elder crests are bound gems.
@@trial_with_an_error9687 doesn't matter. Just because it's in a contract doesn't make it legally binding. And even when it technically is on the consumer, we in the west have *reasonable expectation* laws. They could very well get class actioned.
@@FeedMeSalt No they couldn't, they're beyond scummy but there's 0 legal grounds for anything. there's nothing legally wrong with what they're doing, it's just shady as fuck. We just need stricter laws on loot boxes and mobile gambling like belgium
it just blew my mind that I have spent 7 minutes of my adult life watching other adult men going through such intense emotions whilst staring into the screen, rearranging pixels and clicking buttons.
Wow. I waited 10 years for the next Diablo game. 10 years. And our waiting was rewarded with this. This is, truly, jaw dropping. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something this bad ever. I might just never play a blizzard game again. Like that’s how enraged I feel and how terrible this is.
@@GormanVidal indeed in Poe you get a limited amount of stash tabs this will allow you to judge the game for a few days and see if it's worth investing in it. If you play it for years and spent like 10 dollars every 3 months you will be done buying them soon enough. From there out it's just buying cosmetics to give money to the makers to make it a better game if you wish to do so there is no obligation.
"they come with a set of assumptions about what a mobile game can be, and I kinda want to challenge those assumptions." That definitely, DEFINITELY did not work.
When dumpster fires like these come out you really start to question whether anyone working at these massive companies know what they’re doing, like their genuine competence is unworthy of belief.
Exactly i almost don't even blame blizzard its like these idiots are giving their money away for next to nothing who could blame blizzard for wanting to get in on that
They went very quickly from "do You guys not have phones" to "do You guys not have credit cards" Blizzard was bad already but this is it. I'm really not looking forward to Diablo 4. It will be a giant pay to win fest for pc.
Yeah it'll be the first Diablo game I haven't bought and beaten but at this point I feel like buying their games and providing them sales is like buying from North Korea. At this point just retire the series, games, and characters I grew up loving. Your terrible company has ruined them.
@@holysparkbatman how 3 killed the story? I was thinking of getting it, is it not worth it? I only played until diablo 2: resurrected and have not played 3 yet.
@@adrieanhopkins9795 3 is a fantastic game as far as just gameplay goes but the story is not that great. I’d recommend playing it but going forward after you beat it you’ll see why 4 is gonna be a hard game to sell based on the story which is half the game when it comes to Diablo. If you just want a arpg get grim dawn it’s better than what blizzard could make now.
I like those streamers are like "this is outrageous!!" and also "Let's see how much we can spend on this game" , meanwhile Blizzard's higher ups are chilling on a pool in their yacht on a bigger pool in a bigger yacht shopping for a bigger pool
Gotta hand it to Blizzard, the only company who can't even beat the success of their own classic games... This game and D4 may just as well be another nail in the coffin.
When you think less about it, it feels more like this is a psychological documentary video about a nightmare called Diablo Immortal. As players are calling it now 10 days later, it’s a scamware
@@scar445 k, i see it. then wouldn't cashgrabware indicate it more accurately? but then it's pretty unwieldy as a term. scamware is less ambiguous while still being short.
Thing is, people are legit making this game profitable by making it famous, if the internet was reasonable, no one would talk about this game and leave it to rot
In an alternate universe, Diablo immortal came out on console without being p2w and became one of the greatest games of all time with a meta score of 99.
It's not really about that, the people who get caught up in this are the ones who are prone to addictive behaviour. For example, in people with adhd (like me), the brains dopamine regulation works differently, making us very likely to seek out dopamin inducing behaviour more than the average person. And this is exactly the type of person they are aiming at. Someone who will go into a tunnel vision when they really engage with something. Plus often times it's not grown men/women who fall for this, but kids and teens. At age 16 I had already spent about 2000€ on "free" games that I would never play today. It's just an immoral and manipulative business practice.
unironically the best video about Diablo Immortal
Thanks Revalis!
Omg I LOVED this!
If you parents cant cough out 10,000 for you on a mobile game. they are a failure - Wyatt Cheng
Hell, at those prices they should just put up a share incentive plan on top of the in-game shop to make it worth your while to spend ridiculous sums on character power.
you spelled Immoral wrong there.
Blizzard went from "Do you guys not have phones?" To "Can you guys not get loans?"
"Do you not hear our moans? $_$"
🤣👍💯
After playing immortal: "Dont you guys have good credit score?"
OOF
"Do you guys not have kidneys?"
Since Diablo Immortal came out, I can understand the Netherlands and Belgium for not allowing this kind of games. Really.
They do, they just see it as gambling, not gaming. Blizzard don`t want to pay the taxes. it is legal to gamble in Holland and Belgium, it`s just not allowed to pretend you don`t when you do. Selling casino chips and selling art work is not the same tax rate.
I'm glad I can't play this game, so others from my country can't play it either and can't spend a € on this shit storm.
I was first pissed off, as a Belgium citizen, installed a VPN, tried it... Uninstalled it.
Now I get the reason of this law.
These are no longer videogames. They are slot/gambling machines disguising as videogames, preying on the vulnerable. This is disgusting and should be illegal. Remember that these...''games'' ruin lives by siphoning the finances of people who cannot always afford such expenses, and they do so with intensive psychological manipulation. Traditional gambling is regulated, but since the law is falling behind on practices as always, many countries are too slow (or corrupt) to recognize this new method of gambling for what it is. I hope they eventually ban this shit altogether.
@@sumerian88 Exactly. Those kind of toxic "games" need to be ban worldwide.
"The second i go above 10k, they win."
They won when you spent a single dollar
I'm not defending Diablo immortal, but people at the other end of the spectrum such as yourself aren't helping gamers either. Let me guess. You don't think any game deserves a single penny from you. All the hours of gaming experience in your entire life should be free of charge to you. No game developer should ever be paid a single dollar. Right? This is the kind of consumer mentality that gave birth to "Free to play" games in the first place. If there is a good game that you've enjoyed for hundreds of hours, of course it's worth $60-$100, maybe even more. You're just cheap or broke and it shows in your mentality. Now you get the kinds of games you deserve. Go play them for "free".
@@user92714 "I'm not defending Diablo immortal... You're just cheap or broke..."
@@user92714 they won the second u spent money to improve your leveling or gear... its called P2W and a scam..
@@user92714 I don't mind paying for games, but you are just absurdly dull to think that a game like Diablo immortal should even exist with such practices, it does nothing but set back the industry
@@user92714 yeah and people like you are assuming thoughts on someone else, even thou what they said has nothing to do with your way of thinking over them.
" Diablo Immortal earns almost £20m in just two weeks " You get the gaming industry you deserve.
Lol that's a pitiful return for a live service game. Maybe gamers are finally waking up.
Just goes to show that whales are all that matters
@@carlost856 lol look at the game, must've costed dog ass to make. easy hustle
@@Jhhuhhhytf8 a puzzle or gacha game will cost even less to make.
@Zack Smith please, gacha games are culpable of all of this to an insane amount.
“Your death heals 2% of party’s health”
That is the absolute worst effect I’ve ever seen. I love it.
Way to make me feel fucking worthless :D
When I read that I burst into laughter, like who the fuck designed this shit?
Poor Krippy
ye who the fuck even thought that effect would be any good . the fuck :D
"Every player on this server gets 100,000 gold if you delete your account"
Way to go: From sexual predators to financial predators.
Shame on blizzard.Even made a meme about xd czcams.com/video/Q0ziBWa8AC0/video.html
Oh, don't worry;
They're still sexual predators as well.
@@AStrangeWindmill and they were financial predators not just recently either
Predators all the way baby!
Based
"Your death heals party members for 2% of their life"
That's probably the most depressing and unintentional (or intentional) "F*ck you, you worthless trash" description of a buff. And the fact that it's on a rare or legendary gear adds more insult.
_“Your death heals 2% of party’s health”_
so my life is worth half a fucking band-aid
That generous
"The second I have to go beyond $10k, they win." Yeah...THAT'S when they win
🙄 yeah
last i checked yesterday he was already over 17k
@@BattousaiHBr Last time anyone checked he was already an useful idiot.
@@BattousaiHBr That fuckin guy's gonna pay off the whole development team lel
@@satzbau9185 the journey is finished, he got it at 24.95k NZ$, which is about 15k USD.
he then destroyed it and uninstalled.
I just love how in Elden Ring - streamers got a death counter on the screen. In Diablo Immortal - streamers got a spending counter on the screen. :D
I played Genshin impact for 5 months straight and didn't spend any money at all.
More people should feel proud for not giving in.
Just a brief summary: You don't have to play every game until the very very end. Play a game a little bit, get bored, move on to a new game or thing like regular human beings. Frankly, there's a lot out there. Problem solved, zero money spent on Diablo Immortal.
@@VesperAegis That's a very narrow viewpoint that doesn't reflect current gaming.
The sole appeal of many games is how they keep growing and evolving over the years.
@@ffxiisucks so what happened after those 5 months?
@@VesperAegis that's a pretty shit argument. that's like telling people "just don't get addicted to heroine" obviously most aren't going to. but then normalize taking heroine what do you think is gonna happen?
It's painful seeing these guys paying a ton of money on this game. They're part of the problem.
all of them are for spite
and then theres quin69
@@KUNAIfever still agitates the viewers to spend money on it, no matter how you want to excuse it.
@@nearlydead7510 watching a streamer spend $100 and make no progress, "agitates" spending from viewers? For this particular game, I feel like it dissuades viewers.
@@pancakekidgaming8273 yes, it does. viewers see him spending money and some will do it too. that is what happens, because they will also treat it like a joke. like it's funny to spend money on a cash grab mobile game. or they just simp for their favourite streamer and want to belong. either way, those streamers talking about the game and playing it and spending tons of money on it like they do, showing this to hundred thousands of viewers, is only benefitting blizzard in the end.
They ARE the problem. They game cease to exist if people stop buying. Really.
After just a few weeks and -25K NZD spent, Quon69 finally got his 5\5 star gem!
they should know that diablo immortal _simulator_ exist and could use imaginary money to get imaginary gems instead using IRL money
I was a bit annoyed when they announced the gaming not being released in my country (Netherlands). I can now say I feel totally fine about it. Let's make this a turning point.
Belgium here and I feel the same! Super happy I am spared from this dumpster fire!
@@samve8336 germany here, we can play the game but i don´t give a damn f*** for this cash grab. It is insane.
@@C42ST3N I hope a lot more countries follow so they understand what they created.
@@samve8336 I hope so too and declare this as gamble. Its a mess
Those local laws they apply really working magic right.
Can't play it either, but if I see what a mess it is, I am blessed indeed.
This game is so soul crushing that even wyatt cheng aged 15 years in the last 4 years.
It must be so stressful being blizzard's scapegoat
@@kevinmclarkey621 nah the evil stardba is living a great life, being rich, while the plebs keep feeding him and blizzard with hard earned money..
Poetic that a game called Diablo has people selling their souls.
@@ogge9304 Can't sell what he never had.
He ain't a victim. He's a scumbag
I've spent 0$ on this game and I still feel robbed.
6:00 I was expecting the gem crafting system to be one craft per day. It being every 1 and a half weeks leaves me speechless.
It's outrageous.
even 1 per day is pure bs
then you could get a legendary gem once in 5 years! do you guys not live 900 years????
Quin69: "an EMPOWERED battle pass?! WHAT THE F-"
$10k spent later: 🤡
Wild woolie pogchamp i was here
Why did he spend that much?
Haha this game is so bad and predatory. Absolutely disgusting Blizzard! Noone should support this game! Let me just pump thousands of dollars into it to let Blizzard know how much I dont like this game.
Fuck streamers. I didnt think someone could be dumber then Asmongold but here we are.
Can't play mechanics on FFXIV but plays the credit card combo to perfection.
@@hellatze based
"We've only spent $347 so far."
That's only the equivalent of 5 AAA games to upgrade one character. Money well spent.
To be fair, he likely made that much or more from that stream.
@@WarbossFraka Dude nobody is debating the fact he has disposable income because he's a loser who gets paid to sit home all day. It's the fact he spends that much on a video game that 90% of people knew would be monetized. He's supporting the system he claims to be against while sucking ad revenue and funds from viewers. These viewers also may go out and do the same thing because some people have no self control. You know what he should of done against this predatory game? Not played it. Not to mention spend hundreds of dollars on it. Just because he collects money and can afford it doesn't mean what he's doing is right. I'm not sure how that concept is lost on so many people these days.
@@Sector9Prime yeah but that doesn’t make people feel good when their elbows are covered in slobber watching that blight on gaming play.
@@Sector9Prime Conversely, by playing it and showing how BS the monetization is, many people would be inclined to NOT play the game, causing a much bigger loss to Blizzard than they would gain from 1 semi-whale shelling out $500.
Though I do still think you can do that without actually playing and paying for the game, some people just wanna see how far it goes out of morbid curiosity. So long as they’re encouraging viewers not to as well, I don’t think it’s huge problem imo.
$347 dollars is about 1735 in my currency, with that much money you can buy about 9 triple AAA on steam or even a new ps4
I hate all these guys saying "Diablo Immortal is LITERALLY evil! Blizzard should not be doing this!" yet they still spend hundreds of dollars on the game which directly incentivizes Blizzard to keep doing this.
Blizzard would love for nothing more than this game to be not talked about whatsoever. Just completely uncontroversial. The few thousands these guys are spending to demonstrate what a predatory design this game has, is a drop in the bucket to the millions upon millions of dollars that Blizzard is raking in, and the absolute billions per year that the mobile game industry is already making.
But what spending that money allows them to do is start up a public controversy similar to what we had with Battlefront 2, which ultimately lead to Belgium and the Netherlands passing bills that outlaw this kind of monetisation. That's also why Diablo Immortal isn't playable in those countries unless you're on a VPN.
Asmongold ended up spending like $2200 on Diablo Immortal to show us how fucking ridiculous it is. If that money goes towards making more countries aware of this and passing laws like Belgium and the Netherlands did, that shrinks the exploitable market even further and eventually forces this predatory monetisation out of games entirely.
UYDHUHDHURHUUHYURRRDHURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR LETS MAKE ACTIVISION RICH TO SHOW EVERYUONE HOW BAD DIS HERE GAME BE DA REAL SMART ONEZ ARE TGE BEONES WHO SPENT 9054389854798978342789 TO SHOW US JUST HOW BAD THIS CRAP IZZZZ CAUSE APPARENTLY YOU CANT JUST FUCKING *SEEEEEEEEEEE* THAT BY KNOWING ITS A MOBILE GAME AND THEN FUCKING LOOKING AT THE MENU. BRAIN. DAMAGED. FANBASE.
"But the game is free. You dont have to pay anything"
"Im not paying anything for the game and im having fun therefore its a good game"
Imagine living in this world, where you can do/buy so many exciting and interesting things with money but you decide to whale in a mobile game
Failed abortions is what these people are.
They perpetuate this behaviour
can buy girls cheaper than this game :|
i dont think youre rich enough to understand (neither am i)
If you're talking about asmongold and quin, I think what they did was good and bad. The bad, obviously, is giving money to blizzard. The good being that many people will never ever give blizz their money now, realizing what a third-rate, cash grab company they have become that even after spending 10k, you're still not fully decked out. That 10k spent has engraved that into my brain.
First world problems.
Asmongold had spent $349 on Diablo Immortal already. Let's see what else that money could buy:
- Red Dead Redemption 2: $60
- Witcher 3: $30
- Doom Eternal: $40
- Crusader Kings 3: $50
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps: $30
- Cyberpunk 2077: $60
- Hitman 3: $60
- Spelunky 2: $20
That's 8 games that will provide hundreds of hours of fun. If you play more indie games and wait for sales you can easily get 2x, 3x or 4x more games with that amount of money. I honestly don't understand why anyone would waste their money on this crap.
Cyberpunk 2077 had a disastrous launch; I'd play Metal Gear Solid V instead.
I’ve played it a bit on my iPad, and really haven’t felt the need to buy anything. I just play alone though so maybe there is more of a push when grouping up?
True true
And actually support the devs that deserve it!
People are addicted to gambling. Phone games are the worst because of that. That's why the outrage
or i can just save my money and download from torrent games like max payne 1 , mafia 1 , dragon age origins , fallout new vegas , kotor 1 , heroes 3 ... and just not waste my money for modern pay2win crap . i am just saying .
It's so ironic! xD
Loving this video, it expresses everything I could ever thought about that strage "game".
Damn, amazing video. Subscribed my man
Blizzard should just change their motto from "Every voice matters" to "(Only) Investors voice matters".
Every voice matters, unlike suicides
Investor is Microsoft
they should rebrand rename and sell their IP to some other company
cause their...we makinggames for gamers is no longer true
@@Aggrofool perhaps I should have used shareholders instead of investors
*Every dollar matters
When your game is so bad that Quin's usual tantrums seem like a proportionate response, you know you've fucked up.
If this happens in every video game, I'll convert myself to a workaholic.
I've lost all hope for Diablo 4 now
Even if it will happen, it'll be dead on arrival
@@coth5250 Diablo what?
I've never had hope in Diablo 4. Basically every creative voice at Blizzard that matters left the company years ago.
we have to let diablo go sadly !
Dont be surprise if this game is diablo 4
When Crowbcat has left us behind, Crowbcat at home is here to save the day.
Its something :D
seeing asmongold spend hundreds and then reacting to other videos with exaggerated expressions in his thumbnails fills me with the urge to shave all of his skin with a rusty razor blade
The fact that this made a couple of millions in the first week is tragedy in itself
I died when David Attenborough started talking LOL
Same here. I almost fell out of my chair laughing while simultaneously becoming more enraged at the same time. However, that part was internet gold.
yeah that was absolute perfection! lmao.
Great game, autoattack everything to death and swipe your card when you hit a fabricated progress wall.
Sorry you got sick from touching sticks with men and got sick
capitalistic western world in a nutshell
@@korana6308 reddit
@@korana6308 This was co-developed by and aimed for the Chinese market.
@@korana6308 These types of mobile games started in Asia and from what I can tell are very popular there, no idea where you get the western part from. It's only now that Western companies are getting into it properly with whale games or whatever you want to call them.
I guess Farmville could be considered one of them, but I've never seen anything about it that stands out, seems like a more normal-pointless mobile game, or desktop game turned mobile, I don't know.
Still, some or many of them make more proper mobile games like CoD, Apex Legends and Battlefield.
I'm not sure about the CoD one though, I tried it and more than half the players seemed like bots. Maybe it's just filled with 5 year olds.
There are also PC games ported to mobile like Terraria, that work very similarly to their PC versions.
Whenever I see anyone having spent a lot of money on a mobile game, it's almost always a Chinese dude. Some Japanese and Korean ones sprinkled in IIRC. I assume the other Asian countries either are too poor to gamble like that or too unknown to reach global articles.
Not that I'm often reading about gambling and such, but I saw many mobile games randomly clicking through the play store on PC this one time. Same time I looked up those two games I had ads for, really weird ads eventually. I was about to write that I forgot both of them, but I'm certain one is "Hero Wars". I finally stopped getting it maybe 2 months ago, sometimes it's like CZcams can properly show you ads and other times it gets stuck on this one thing for 2 years. Hero Wars and Hello Fresh have been these long-lasting ads. If I've already seen an ad once, why do I want to see it again? If I was given more variety, I have a higher chance to come across something I would never click on, but maybe would look up 3 years from now.
A lot of people seem to play mobile games, it's uncommon for any given game to have less than 10k reviews, many have over a million. I still don't know what there is to do in these games, they're not necessarily all gambling games, but they all seem to have similarly pointless gameplay to them.
There are also pervert games, where you seem to "collect" women, busty ones mostly and if catering to pedos, little girls too. Azur Lane was one that I saw on my front page for a while, I guess because I never properly used the store, so it didn't know what to update into. It eventually updated and Azur Lane is no longer there, but it took what feels like 3 years for it to do so. I just use the play store to update already installed programs. What am I supposed to do in the play store but update stuff like the bank app and once a year the tax app I guess.
I have a crossword thing or whatever you can call it, but after a few minutes it was giving me the same words in different locations, so I quit. Not much variety there, I would've eventually been able to get through it by just using letters from words in the past. Felt like it was 25 words chosen and placed in different spots. Memorise those 25 words and the game is the same.
Even with PC-like games such as Terraria, I just question..if it's on PC, why not play it there? Why go outside and end up staring at the phone.
The scene from Full Metal Jacket where they hold the guy down and everyone beats him with soap. That's what everyone in Blizzard needs right now. Including the coffee getting 19 year old intern.
Where *Crowbcat* Go? When the world need him the most!
Wyatt Cheng looks like he's on the verge of crying in that interview.
Good
he looks like a person who knows that their interviewpartner knows they're lying.
"will there be microtransactions" "AhaHahAhaHAha..." *you know I can't answer that please k*ll me*
he should have
All the way to the bank
I'm just sorry to him
Turns out the off-season April Fool's joke was Blizzard laughing at their player base on the way to the bank
Yeah i heard they already made 6mil off it.
So off-season that it lasted 4 years
impressive efficiency
@@DreamCatcher507 I've heard already over 10 mil now. Absolutely insane that people are even playing it
@@hayato1886 Gamers have the industry they deserve...
Blizzard: we really need to understand what went wrong
Also blizzard: talking to ourselves
EXACTLY. You're already wrong at first step
I swear...everyone other than actual whales to spent money in this game to "mock blizzard" or to "prove a point" needs to be lombotomized.
They made slot machine for gaming addicts.
The only thing people should be shocked at, this is legal.
Its blizzard nowadays sadly for us. From long term perspective now to short term results(fast money). czcams.com/video/Q0ziBWa8AC0/video.html
@Riorozen L opinion. Regulation is needed because companies are shameless.
@@probablyilliterate Not L at all. People want the government to make those regulations, the government is even more shameless than those companies. When they start to take what they think is their due, you'll be fucked either way, or even more fucked.
This sort of thing is supposed to sort itself out. Everyone has the power to stop it by boycoting those companies and stop buying what they're selling, stop playing their games. Its the only way for the situation to be beneficial to the players.
@@abnnizzy a boycott won't work when there's whales who will pay regardless.
If money weren't in politics, this would be a different story.
@@abnnizzy But you can't just stop whales from spending on the game if there's actually 0 limit for how much you can spend on the game. If they weekly donate 1k+ dollars, the game is already a success and they don't have to do shit. Even if it's just simply the whales playing, they still spend on the game like crazy.
The fact they're spending so much money on Diablo Immortal while shitting on the game makes these players look like actual clowns. Imagine being the literal biggest supporters of what you hate without anyone forcing you to do it.
Think of the content though /s
They make back more in their streams and its a good way to show off just how insane the micro transactions are so you don't waste your money since most of these streamers have expendable income
@@CodeeXD They do, but nevertheless, the money will still flow to Blizzard, basically supporting their business plan. And basically 5k+ dollars are not a small amount.
@@hunlepto2239 It is in the long run if it successfully kills profits. The development for the game still costs a fairly hefty amount so it is about figuring out how long it takes for the game to die out. A mark of a good gacha game is longevity and the model for Diablo immortal... doesn't seem to show that. Heavy monetization aside, it doesn't lend itself well to long term sustainability, only short term gain.
Oh boy dont you ever check out the World of Warcraft forums lol
"yet whales, have not always enjoyed such freedom"
Fucking gold.
asmon gold
Me: “I don’t want to do cocaine”
Them: “Do you guys not have noses?”
Cheng: "Neteast is a diablo fan."
Netease is a company, not a person. They can't be a "diablo fan."
They're basically a company that exists to get their hand into your wallet. The games that do get designed under them are not games first monetization later, its the opposite. And I see this with immortal.
He's referring to the team of developers working at Netease, not to the corporation as an entity
Well then that explains both companies are shit.
"We spent a lot of time talking to ourselves to figure out where we went wrong. Turns out we didnt. It was players fault."
'Then we had a look at our wallets and concluded the fault was not with us.'
okay so i did some research because people are saying the usual gacha games like FGO, GBF, Genshin (as Forbes wrote) are better than Diablo Immortal. That shocked me because that means Diablo Immortal fucked up elsewhere massively. Here's from a mobile gamer perspective (i played on PC and mobile btw) :
1. Legendary Crests are just like your usual gacha rolls but with extra steps like clearing the rift first. so far it's the usual deal.
2. Battle Pass on top of that, Honkai Impact did this also but not a deal breaker on the surface until you see the battle pass level up purchase, Even Master Duel did not do it like that and IIRC Honkai Impact 3 does not do Battle Pass upgrade purchase either AKA you gotta grind them by playing
3. In-game Store has something that irked me. You saw the +800% Extra Value at 0:09. other items also have this +???% Extra Value, why emphasize this unless the target is to trigger spending with these value numbers
4. Boon of Plenty and Prodigy's Path feels like you have 3 Battle Passes in game. all have paid options
5. The rates to get a 5/5* gem and the others is not shown directly in game, that is a bad sign there from the get go and Blizz did it first with Overwatch and remember they don't want to reveal the rates at all to the point that the chinese players gets a different MTX scheme instead because China mandated that the rates be shown totally
6. The design decision to make players can upgrade 2*/5 gem until 5*/5 gem is clearly aiming for a pay to win scheme here, usually if you get a 3* it stays 3* forever but you can maximize for something like a 3* only squad but this is not that kind of game
7. Farming Eternal Orbs or Legendary Crest is almost impossible when compared to other games where you can hoard your premium currency (like Saint Quartz for FGO) for a rainy day WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY later (read : sudden target banner or limited banner)
8. Hidden caps, as Forbes wrote there are hidden caps like lower exp or a lower drop rate once you get to a certain point per day. Actively hindering your players everyday? wow........
Conclusion :
Too many Monetization schemes that is built so deep and game design decisions that supports this type of monetization seems to be the main culprit alongside "Pay to Skip Grind" solution that is offered. No wonder people call Diablo Immortal WAAAAAY worse that the other games, and that is coming from a day 1 player of FGO.
When they said "Don't you guys have phone?" What they really meant was: "Don't you guys have a credit card?"
Nah it's "Don't you guys have a trust fund?"
nah its do you want to hate us. cuz we dont want your trust anymore.
Blizzard : " dou guys have not loans ?"
"We asked everyone what was going on, the game directors, the board moderators, the CEOS, Bobby Kotick, J Barack Allens, my fellow teammates, other programmers and teams in Blizzard and Activision and also the Janitor staff and Taxi Drivers, we have asked everyone about Diablo Immoral and what they think about and they gave excellent to good feedback I don't know who on earth we could of missed we must have been just unlucky !!!"
They basically just asked around in their own disgusting filthy "greedy mofo" echochamber.
Its' like asking a bank to regulate themselves. "We could not find any evidence of fraud or insider trade". Yeah right.
Well, they asked all their "customers". You don't ask children what they want to do in the school. Neither you ask cows about steak recipes :P
Been a Blizzard fan and player ever since Lost Vikings my heart sinks when i see what happened to my absolute favorite gaming company.
But i guess everything in life ends so did the Blizzard we once knew and loved.
All the OG devs are out of there anyway all that remains is Blizzard name and amazing memories i made playing so many of their games and having so much fun.
3:23 Man so mad he wants into the anime poster
"lets do it, lets pull the trigger" yeah, and kill what little left of Blizzard there is to love.
What is there to love? Do they let you borrow the cosby room on weekends? lmao
Blizz was already dead tho, he's just following exec orders. Gamers don't run blizzard, money does
We as a community say, after taking Blizzard out in the back, and Old Yeller it.
nah that will happen with Diablo 4 and it's heavy pay to win monetization.
1:45 “We really spent a lot of time trying to understand where we went wrong… we spent a lot of time talking to each other”
Dude, you KNOW where you went wrong from the infamous first announcement: mobile game, no PC version, and then micro transactions. It really isn’t hard.
But apparently its JUST A TINY BIT TOO immoral to admit that you are milking people with gambling addictions.
oh, PC ver soon btw
which NOONE WOULD WANT IT considering how shitty the game is
but at least now you know it and you could hype for it
Do you know where is this footage from?
I literally got a Diablo Immortal ad when I clicked on this lmao.
Edit: Aaaaaand one at the end lol.
he made his special operations game as revenge for laughing at him about us all not having cell phones
More people need to watch this, Blizzard died on July 9 2008 sold their soul to Activision
Except Diablo 3 was a great game, and they quickly took the cash auction house out of the game and fixed the loot balance in order to make good with all the players they pissed off. This bullshit though... unacceptable.
@@pogtuber5146 No it was so dogshit that an indie company working from their fcking garage made a 100x times better game called path of exile that threw d3 into the garbage can so fast blizzard completely stopped supporting it
@@pogtuber5146 "quickly took out", you mean after a year? I wouldn't be surprised if they had people making alts to profilt even more selling spawned gear to the average gamer.
@@pogtuber5146 Agreed, I enjoyed D3 after the changes and let's hope D4 will not look anything like this. I am a Diablo fan and pains me to see what they've done to Diablo Immortal
@@tuxtron1025 10 months is a pretty quick turnaround for not only ripping an entire game feature out but introducing an entirely new loot system
MrLlama's face sums it up so good, nothing else matters.
this game is basically hand crafted for asian market, asians love p2w shit and are willing to spend ton of money to have an leverage against other players to compensate for their uncomplished lives
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time - thank you! Wonderful video!
I bet the tubby asian guy smells bad, you can just see it in the way he looks sweaty all the time.
You forgot the part where they litterally intentionally trick you with 3 kinds of crests. By hiding one of them. The package and f2p elder crests are bound gems.
Someone should sue, no joke
@@DougiePlaysSoccer Can't they most likely hid some legal fuckery in the ToS about not being legally responsible once you agree.
@@trial_with_an_error9687 doesn't matter. Just because it's in a contract doesn't make it legally binding. And even when it technically is on the consumer, we in the west have *reasonable expectation* laws.
They could very well get class actioned.
@@FeedMeSalt No they couldn't, they're beyond scummy but there's 0 legal grounds for anything. there's nothing legally wrong with what they're doing, it's just shady as fuck. We just need stricter laws on loot boxes and mobile gambling like belgium
@@PaRappa_the_Rapper In the US? Good luck dude half the country is trying to re-elect an aspiring dictator lmao
1:25 is still the best gaming quote that will live on forever.
Right after this video I got an ad for Diablo immortal lol
it just blew my mind that I have spent 7 minutes of my adult life watching other adult men going through such intense emotions whilst staring into the screen, rearranging pixels and clicking buttons.
Wow. I waited 10 years for the next Diablo game. 10 years. And our waiting was rewarded with this.
This is, truly, jaw dropping. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something this bad ever.
I might just never play a blizzard game again. Like that’s how enraged I feel and how terrible this is.
Why wait for diablo when there's PoE lmao
@@Juiccy you think they didnt base thier monetization off of PoE? lol
@@mikeymaiku PoE is only stash tabs and cosmetics. Diablo Immortal is on a whole different level come on
@@GormanVidal indeed in Poe you get a limited amount of stash tabs this will allow you to judge the game for a few days and see if it's worth investing in it. If you play it for years and spent like 10 dollars every 3 months you will be done buying them soon enough. From there out it's just buying cosmetics to give money to the makers to make it a better game if you wish to do so there is no obligation.
See you soon on diablo iv
i still like the "we make it mobile so it reaches everyone" but putting the requirements so high that many peoply cant even install it on mobile
i play on pc and can run monster hunter world, elden ring, etc etc tons of games just fine and this game just runs like shit
Every single player who bought even the *800% Value package* deserves everything blizzard is doing to them.
When we needed him most, he came to save us all.
"they come with a set of assumptions about what a mobile game can be, and I kinda want to challenge those assumptions."
That definitely, DEFINITELY did not work.
They went the opposite of challenging those assumptions, they embraced it with open arms... and legs! xD
The random clips of Wyatt talking out of his ass is funny lol
I want his dealers phone number
When dumpster fires like these come out you really start to question whether anyone working at these massive companies know what they’re doing, like their genuine competence is unworthy of belief.
it's corruption company now.
the video quench my thirst for a new crowbcat video. thank you.
I do not feel any pity for the people who spent even a single $ or € on this game.
You guys are the reason the companies became so greedy.
Exactly i almost don't even blame blizzard its like these idiots are giving their money away for next to nothing who could blame blizzard for wanting to get in on that
I spent 5$ I had on google play store credit from surveys and feel guilty about it
And they really think they’re doing it for a cause 😭
Well said. They keep complaining but theyre still buying dumb hypocrites.
people crying about p2w and then spend thousands on it lol
that 99 cents is just a way for you to register your cc.
Yyyupp! Special tactics
Bruh the humpback whale segment was genius. Brilliant.
"Is this an out of season April Fool's joke?"
My man give yourself more credit. You might be a Crowbcat at home, but this was godlike.
They went very quickly from "do You guys not have phones" to "do You guys not have credit cards"
Blizzard was bad already but this is it. I'm really not looking forward to Diablo 4. It will be a giant pay to win fest for pc.
Yeah it'll be the first Diablo game I haven't bought and beaten but at this point I feel like buying their games and providing them sales is like buying from North Korea. At this point just retire the series, games, and characters I grew up loving. Your terrible company has ruined them.
@@someguy9307 3 killed the story immortal killed the gameplay and 4 will probably be both.
@@holysparkbatman how 3 killed the story? I was thinking of getting it, is it not worth it? I only played until diablo 2: resurrected and have not played 3 yet.
@@adrieanhopkins9795 3 is a fantastic game as far as just gameplay goes but the story is not that great. I’d recommend playing it but going forward after you beat it you’ll see why 4 is gonna be a hard game to sell based on the story which is half the game when it comes to Diablo. If you just want a arpg get grim dawn it’s better than what blizzard could make now.
_'And it's only one hundred dollars?'_ line killed me, lol.
I got a Diablo Immortal ad at the very end of the video
That Sir David's voice was the best thing in this whole meme video.
I like those streamers are like "this is outrageous!!" and also "Let's see how much we can spend on this game" , meanwhile Blizzard's higher ups are chilling on a pool in their yacht on a bigger pool in a bigger yacht shopping for a bigger pool
when the david attenborough narration started I lost my shit hahaha just perfect editing
“Do you guys not have brains”
Gotta hand it to Blizzard, the only company who can't even beat the success of their own classic games... This game and D4 may just as well be another nail in the coffin.
Na man that club has plenty of members: bioware, bethesda( still milking a 2011 title), and ubisoft
This video is actually on Crowbcat's level.. well done man
that asian dude looks like he has aged one hundred years since the "do you guys not have phones?" debacle
Im glad crowbat has become almost like another genre of videos and I’m all for it
When you think less about it, it feels more like this is a psychological documentary video about a nightmare called Diablo Immortal.
As players are calling it now 10 days later, it’s a scamware
i like calling it cashware
@@scar445 that implies, that like currency, it has value. it doesn't.
@@ethanstump its a play on the "cashgrab" title
@@scar445 k, i see it. then wouldn't cashgrabware indicate it more accurately? but then it's pretty unwieldy as a term. scamware is less ambiguous while still being short.
@@ethanstump yeah, but it implies a scam of any sort. Cashware jumps straight to the point.
The death of gaming right here
Thing is, people are legit making this game profitable by making it famous, if the internet was reasonable, no one would talk about this game and leave it to rot
Crowbcat at home... genius.
Love the homage to Crowbcat. You did a great job dude, keep it up!
By far the best most entertaining thing I have seen all week.
Glad to hear it :)
In an alternate universe, Diablo immortal came out on console without being p2w and became one of the greatest games of all time with a meta score of 99.
Unironically the best Quinn will ever do on a ladder
wow, this was so entertaining. ty for this who ever you are
i cracked of laughter at 2:00
I really hope wyatt cheng doesn't touch a video game again for the rest of his life...
“We wanted to reach millions of wallets, I mean players.”
As long as there are fools to give money, they will make such games
This game for me is an indicator for idiocy.
If you are reasonably and sane, you don't play it.
If you are a moron, you play it...
It's not really about that, the people who get caught up in this are the ones who are prone to addictive behaviour.
For example, in people with adhd (like me), the brains dopamine regulation works differently, making us very likely to seek out dopamin inducing behaviour more than the average person. And this is exactly the type of person they are aiming at. Someone who will go into a tunnel vision when they really engage with something.
Plus often times it's not grown men/women who fall for this, but kids and teens. At age 16 I had already spent about 2000€ on "free" games that I would never play today.
It's just an immoral and manipulative business practice.
@@Fliptheonly Very interesting what you say, but in that case, Blizzard is a drug-dealer and should be handled in the same way!