unless blizzard expects 10million downloads at 20$ a game

Exactly - I keep seeing people "holding onto hope!!!!!!!" that it won't have severe P2W Mechanics. People actually think the only micro-transactions will be fucking cosmetic LOL.

Bring on the paywall, boys.

this ^^^^

And i bet the only thing they do know about this game, other than it being for mobile only, is its business model.

It's simple business. You don't create a product THEN figure out how you're getting your $$$$ when you're a company as big as ActiBlizzard. You build the game around the money stream.

Hence why the shareholders wanted to see mobile in Blizzard's portfolio it's the biggest and hottest gaming market.

RIP.

Almost all games have some sort of pay 2 win. You either play a game with a trade system or you don't. You either grind your ass off with time or pay your way with buyables. I'd much rather see pay 2 win via player interactions and trading then buying directly from developers. Or even worse limiting game play around buyable play time by charging gems or w.e and saying you need them for rifts/raids/runs whatever

Play a freemium game, then come back and talk to me.

Freemium games are brutal. This isn't "buy some FG to make some trades for services/items" or "Buy an imported D2 circlet online"

These games are pay to win and also pay to play/progress. Imagine you couldn't RIFT in D3 or BAAL run in diablo 2 because you didn't have enough resources or whatever. The only way to get these resources is to buy them with $$$, do daily log ins to get energy, or whatever style they go.

No good. Will be shit.

That's exactly what my last sentence was about brother ^^

I agree with you. This is going to be a money draining massacre.

With the backlash already instated i don't see them going too over the top but it's blizztard so you never know.

It being mobile is all the information necessary to piss off a few million people.

This post was edited by FroggyG on Nov 6 2018 12:30pm