{"id":125324,"date":"2022-06-06T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125324"},"modified":"2022-06-06T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:05:03","slug":"it-costs-r1-7-million-to-max-out-a-character-in-diablo-immortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125324-it-costs-r1-7-million-to-max-out-a-character-in-diablo-immortal","title":{"rendered":"It costs R1.7 million to max out a character in Diablo Immortal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo Immortal hasn\u2019t been out long, but those who\u2019ve been playing the game have already noticed its unhealthy monetisation scheme. YouTube channel Bellular News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Y3Lb25MKqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>found<\/strong><\/a> that it would cost players $110,000 (R1.7 million) to max out a character.<\/p>\n<p>Diablo Immortal may be a Free to Play game but to fully maximise a character\u2019s effectiveness requires the purchasing of Legendary Gems to unlock endgame tier progression \u2013 something that currently can only be done via the games monetisation options.<\/p>\n<p>Buying these Legendary Gems to max-out a character does not guarantee that you receive the items you are looking for, as they only have a chance of dropping from the loot boxes you will be paying for.<\/p>\n<p>Bellular News also noted that it would theoretically take ten years of playtime to fully equip a character in the game\u2019s current state without spending any real money.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, Diablo Immortal\u2019s general gameplay loop and performance have been well-received by players, but this has been tempered by a healthy degree of scepticism over the game monetisation.<\/p>\n<p>If Bellular News\u2019 calculations are accurate, this scepticism will have been well-founded.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125317-four-new-free-games-for-xbox-gold-revealed\">Four new free games for Xbox Gold revealed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the calculations of Well-regarded YouTuber Bellular Games it will cost R1.7 million to fully equip a character in Diablo Immortal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":125246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,3],"tags":[26069,26251],"class_list":["post-125324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-pc","tag-diablo-immortal","tag-monetisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}