{"id":125437,"date":"2022-06-14T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125437"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:31:19","slug":"diablo-4-wont-be-pay-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125437-diablo-4-wont-be-pay-to-win","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4 won&#8217;t be pay to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The release of Diablo Immortal has, for many gamers, left a sour taste in the mouth and cast several doubts over Diablo 4 and its expected release in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Rod Fergusson, an overseer for the development of Diablo 4, tweeted that the next game in the series won&#8217;t be pay to win.<\/p>\n<p>He states that the game will be built to deliver a wide breadth of content both at launch and after with the only microtransactions being present in cosmetics and full, story-driven expansions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To be clear, D4 is a full price game built for PC\/PS\/Xbox audiences. We are committed to delivering an incredible breadth of content after launch, for years to come, anchored around optional cosmetic items &amp; full story driven expansions. More details soon. Necro blog tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rod Fergusson (@RodFergusson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RodFergusson\/status\/1536068892086243328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This tweet, while encouraging, should however be taken with a grain of salt as Diablo Immortal had a similar marketing campaign indicating it would have minimal micro-transactions &#8211; yet the opposite is true.<\/p>\n<p>While Diablo Immortal may now be one of the lowest-rated games ever on Metacritic, soundly beating titles like Warcraft 3: Reforged, it has still generated a massive amount of revenue for Blizzard so it\u2019s possible Diablo 4 may go down the same path despite the outcry.<\/p>\n<p>However, for the time being, the tweet from Fergusson is a hopeful step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/125435-the-new-playstation-plus-is-out-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">The new PlayStation Plus is out \u2013 here\u2019s what you need to know<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Tweet from a Diablo 4 developer the game won&#8217;t be pay to win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":125424,"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":[3,11681,4],"tags":[26280,26069],"class_list":["post-125437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-diablo-4","tag-diablo-immortal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125437","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=125437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}