The last year has not been kind to Blizzard Entertainment on the PR front, and the release ofDiablo Immortalisn’t doing the company any favors thanks to its costly microtransactions rivaling games likeStar Wars Battlefront 2orGTA Online. Players are spending thousands of dollars to unlock the game’s Legendary Gems and upgrade their characters enough to progress in any meaningful fashion, along with standing a chance in fights against other players. However, one player is taken this system and is turning it on its head thanks to their stockpile ofWorld of Warcraftcurrency, which they are converting to general Blizzard currency for use in the new game.
Diablo Immortalis the latest entry in Blizzard’s long-runningDiabloseries, set in the dark fantasy world of Sanctuary and plays home to hosts of heroes, angels, and demons. Immortal is set betweenDiablo 2andDiablo 3and sees players join series regular Deckard Cain on quest to find the shattered pieces of the Worldstone before disaster befalls Sanctuary. Players will also do battle with the forces of Skarn, a former lieutenant of the series' titular villain, who is the mastermind behind the threat facing Sanctuary.
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The player mentioned above, who is taking advantage of theirWorld of Warcraftgold stockpile inImmortal, goes by the handle Naecabon according to GamesRadar. Naecabon spoke about this in a lengthy Reddit post under the username daymeeuhn, where they talked about converting the roughly 600 millionWarcraftgold they saved up to purchase $50,000World of Warcrafttokens to use in the MMO’s auction house, which can then be turned in for $15 toward their Blizzard Balance. Naecabon said that when they realized how the conversion worked, they decided to build a “gold whale” character inImmortalto “dunk” on all the “cash whale” players in PvP.
Naecabon said this process is proving to be a massive success on their part, with their character regularly defeating these “cash whales” with “scary efficiency.” They said one such player is streamer jtisallbusiness, who claims to have spent roughly$100,000 onImmortalsince the game’s release.
When a game is dubbed “pay-to-win” by the larger community, players will typically try to find ways of gaming the system to spend as little money as possible. Naecabon’s experience inDiablo Immortalis one such example of this, which has been mired since release with stories of players spending over $10,000 inImmortalto upgrade their characters to be viable in PvP and endgame. Now that this way of gaming the system is known to the public, the ball is now inBlizzard’s court, with many waiting to see if it addresses the trick or adjusts the conversion system in any meaningful way.
Diablo Immortalis currently available on Android, iOS, and PC.
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