However, designers had to include extra milestone prizes after that principal prize, which will generally require you to spend real money for the chance to gain an advantage in the contest. 'In the business I was in, there were weekly events that offered unique prizes, and they were designed to allow you to participate with rare in-game currency, which allowed you to win one of the major prizes. And, we also purposefully placed less lucrative deals on top of other ones to make the others appear more lucrative and let players feel that they are smarter by saving out and getting the other deals.' This can help to conceal the real value of the money since there isn't a one-to-one conversion. 'Like, if I spent $1, I'd get two kinds of currency (gold and jewels for instance).

'A usual tactic in mobile games or other games using microtransactions, is to make the currencies,' an anonymous employee employed in the mobile game industry has told me. It's also evident in the instance of Lapis -the currency paid within Final Fantasy Brave Exvius -It entices players through 'bonus' currencies that can reach the hundreds of thousands after purchasing packs with a value of up to $100.

This is evident with Genshin Impact's Genesis Crystal store, where buying large amounts of currency can grant players a larger amount of exactly the same currency. This has been a standard practice in the mobile marketplace for many years, however different the way of presenting it may have looked. It's a result of Diablo's microtransactions, that although they were a bit pricey, weren't made up from thin air.ĭiablo Immortal is doused in many in-game transactions that's a wall of deals with exaggerated numbers to convince players of the fact that, the greater the amount they purchase, the more they save. But this isn't the knee-jerk reaction to disappointing announcements or the fact that Diablo Immortal is now available through mobile device. When Diablo Immortal was announced at BlizzCon 2018, one participant in the crowd stood before the developers of the free-to-play mobile title to inquire: 'Is this an out-of-season April Fools' joke?' This general vitriol and mockery ensued from Diablo Immortal up until its recent release.

Diablo immortal crowd reaction