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If you purchase legendary crests, you"re not buying a single roll of dice as you would when buying the FIFA Ultimate Team card pack like. You are buying buy cheap Diablo IV Gold a chance to load dice to reach into the game engine to alter the drop rate (slightly) to your liking. Its addictive gameplay mechanics aren"t distinct from the addictive gameplay mechanics, but instead tied directly to combat and loot drops inside the game. Diablo is scarily well-positioned to achieve this. As my colleague Maddy Myers pointed out, these heavily loot-focused games have always had a slot-machine feel and this is what Diablo Immortal"s business model makes the game appear as if it were.

Blizzard has repeatedly tried to make clear that Immortal"s monetization can safely be ignored until the game"s end and it"s true and claims that the vast majority gamers enjoy the game without having to spend any money, which is possible. It"s untrue to say that the most enjoyable part of Diablo games resides in playing through the story rather than maxing out your character. It"s also disingenuous to deny that these games have always been designed to instill the desire to hit the power cap in the players. For those who have a tendency towards gambling addiction, towards the addictive nature of Diablo"s game itemor, worse, both -- the legendary crest system is inflicting a lot of harm and is potentially extremely destructive.

For all other players it"s just a matter of making Diablo less fun.

We"ve been there before or similar to it. When Diablo 3 launched in 2012, it featured an auction house that was real money where players could purchase and sell their item drops. In theory, this was to prevent cheating and scamming that beset trading on Diablo 2. However, to guide players toward this auction-house, Blizzard lowered loot drop rates in the game to an extent that equipping your character with a weapon became a tedious chore, and the game as a whole felt unrewarding to play. When the unpopular auction house was taken down and drop rates was increased during 2014 Diablo 4 Gold instantly became more fun, even before the developments of the Reaper of Souls expansion brought it to legendary status.