Whatever progress you do make is slow and agonizing with a litany of issues at nearly every step.

But the truth is that unless you have a hyperbolic time chamber a la Dragon Ball Z, you will never advance enough to get even close to end-game min-maxing without spending some money. Maybe I didn’t give this money hydra, sprouting more things to purchase the more you pay, a real chance. The sheer audacity is as maddening and rage-inducing as it is hilarious.'ĭiablo Immortal is one of the very worst games ever made. 'This isn’t even a soulless cash-grab – the cash-grab is its very soul. Fast-forward several years later to the announcement of a PC port and here we are. With how long it took to develop and Blizzard seemingly focused on delivering a “true” Diablo game, I was still somewhat curious.

It’s heavily based on NetEase’s Crusaders of Light, which is the prime example of terrible monetization practices in a video game, forget the mobile space. Slowly and slowly, it became more obvious that Diablo Immortal isn’t necessarily a new game. Even if soaked to the gills with microtransactions – which I believed at the time would be limited to premium cosmetics or stash tabs like Path of Exile, maybe a Battle Pass – as long as it was fun, that was enough.

Was it what I wanted out of a Diablo title? No. Way back at BlizzCon 2018, when the bomb dropped about the next Diablo being a mobile, free-to-play action RPG, I was one of those “wait and see” types.

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