If you do not take note of the PvP aspect, Diablo Immortal sadly isn't an outlier when it comes to popular RPGs for free, and it doesn't do anything that cash-extraction mobile games hadn't done before D2R Items. The microtransactions that Diablo Immortal offers aren't the first time for this particular Diablo franchise. When Diablo was released its game back in 2012. it featured a real-money auction house that allowed players to sell in-game items in exchange for cash.

with Blizzard getting a tiny cut of each transaction. When players reached more difficult levels and the game's progress slowed and many felt pressured to interact with the auction house in order to improve their character. Blizzard received feedback from players and then removed the auction house from Diablo completely, as if they had learned its lesson.

It is interesting to see this kind of scenario play out once again in Diablo Immortal -- which also has an auction house where players are able to sell items such as Legendary Gems to one another with a special currency that can be acquired by purchasing a premium currency using real money--is Blizzard not only not learning from the mistakes of the past of the franchise, but apparently intent to repeat them.

Diablo as a game is all about slaying multiple demons and gaining greater amounts of loot and improving your character's abilities to face greater and greater obstacles D2R ladder items buy. The ability to buy one's way into success either using Legendary Crests as well as the auction house of the game undermines the very essence of what Diablo as a brand is about.