In another strike against the ill-fated mobile game, a New Zealand streamer has spent £5,000 on Diablo Immortal and got nothing of value.
Diablo Immortal, ’s new mobile game, has been mired in controversy ever since its announcement. The action role-playing game was released on June 2 and in the last few days has racked up a 0.7 audience score on Metacritic.
Many of the issues stem from the game’s ludicrous microtransactions. Asmongold, a streamer known for his World Of Warcraft streams, by earning rare loot with a paid-for boost, but effectively nothing after the boost ended.
Now, Twitch streamer Quin69 has spent $10,000 NZD (£5,137) on the game and got increasingly angry as he did so, earning absolutely nothing of value on the spending spree.
Quin was aiming to acquire some rare gems which are used to enhance equipment. The gems are split into star ratings depending on their rarity, with his money not being enough to get hold of a single five-star gem.
Quin was keeping tabs on his spending for the audience, eventually hitting a whopping $10,335.51 NZD before succumbing to a rant as he danced around the room yelling about various things he could have bought instead.
Examples he gave were an entire school career up to 18 for a child and a car.
Blizzard’s game has been banned from because of its loot boxes, while the game has continued to be review bombed with low ratings across both Apple and Google’s app stores,
Other players have figured out that the game will take several years to fully upgrade a character or require you to
Despite player complaints, the game still remains popular on Twitch, with 25,000 viewers across all streams and is currently topping out charts on app stores.
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