‘Diablo Immortal’ Player Spends $100K To Max His Character, Now Too Powerful To Matchmake

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Got it! Aug 7, 2022, 11:52am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Diablo Immortal Blizzard Alright, this may genuinely be one of the funniest gaming stories I’ve heard this year, and a perfect chef’s kiss moments for the gacha/p2w industry using one of its worst offenders, Diablo Immortal. While it’s been calculated that it can take north of $100,000 to full max out a single character in Diablo Immortal with gambling for and leveling high rarity gems, few people actually went and spent that. Well, at least someone did, only now, he appears to have spent so much making his character as strong as possible, that the game’s PvP matchmaking system can no longer find anyone to put him with.

This happened to Jtisallbusiness , who spent $100,000 to max his Barbarian as much as possible, but then he ended up winning so many games, the game just…stopped matching him altogether due to his insane MMR, and he says he’ll sit around for 48 to 72 hours waiting for a match. He posted the below video asking whether he should try and get a refund for his $100K account since this portion of the game no longer functioned for him at all, effectively. It has 1.

5K likes and 15,000 dislikes, as he’s not finding much of a sympathetic audience: It’s possible a fix for this is on the way, as Blizzard has commented on the fact that some players cannot find matches in Battleground PvP, and after a month, Jitsallbusiness said Blizzard finally did get back to him about it. But what isn’t clear is what happens if they start putting him in matches again with such a strong character, and if it’s even possible he can lose with how much he’s spent. As commenters said when this situation was unfolding, this may just be what happens when you “win” a pay-to-win game.

MORE FOR YOU ‘Demon Slayer’ Season 2 Finally Has An Actual 2021 Release Date Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Not A Sure Thing, Says Director ‘Genshin Impact’ Still Refuses To Increase Anniversary Rewards, Despite Fan Outcry As for Diablo Immortal as a whole, it recently crossed $100 million in revenue, and despite all the pushback, it is raking in cash for Blizzard, including from megawhales like what we’re seeing here. For Blizzard’s part, their current strategy with the game seems to be pretty heads down, letting those who like it/are addicted to it continue to play and spend, and they have not pulled back any of the main monetization issues that people had with the game at launch. Game director Wyatt Cheng, after initially defending its monetization at release, has not tweeted anything meaningful about it in nearly two months, other than to retweet a recent announcement that Immortal had hit 20 million installs a couple weeks ago.

So, this appears to be the plan, change essentially nothing despite all the initial anger, let the players who want to dive into the unforgiving gacha economy keep spending, and don’t overly promote the game (at least in the West), lest they draw more ire. Blizzard seems to be shifting its public focus to Diablo 4, as early private tests are starting, and we could see some more open ones soon enough. Blizzard has already promised that Diablo 4 will not be monetized like Immortal, but to say Blizzard has developed something of a trust problem among fans is an understatement.

It’s a strange gaming saga that continues to have weird little caveats like this one, but we’ll see how it performs in the long term for Blizzard, and whether all this is worth it. Follow me on Twitter , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram . Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls .

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