Asmongold Reacts to Bellular: Diablo Immоrtаl will ruin Blizzard Reputation 

I didn’t realize blizzard still had a reputation left

Warren Buffett once said that "A brand is a promise". The trust between a consumer and a brand they trust has a lot of value, and Blizzard is pursuing short term profits at the cost of long term growth and revenue further down the line. It's a very short sighted way to manage a company. There's a book that describes this problem in many american corporations called, "The Man who Broke Capitalism". It's about how Jack Welch took one of the oldest and most powerful corporations (General Electric) and drove it into the ground by chasing quarterly earnings.

I couldn't even play an hour without getting bugged for money. I remember in the early days you could go a day without MTX being shoved down your throat. This game wanted .99 at first, then $5, then $20, then $100. All within an hour.

Just remember, since day one of this game being announced, they were targeting children with these systems. "Slay demons with the whole family!" They advertised it as a family game, a family game that'll sap you and your children of all your money. What a disgusting company.

I'm not shocked. Their corporate umbrella includes King, and they are a money maker because of the gambling tactics their games use. It was only a matter of time before they applied this formula to other games in their library.

Whaling was that bad at 34:37 Bellular starting making seal noises🤣🦭

800%? I went out and got my first phone so i could get it such a bargain, like he said I'd be losing money if i didn't.

Eating meat is not extreme, that is literally how we evolved as human beings. My great grandpa lived to 91 and ate ribeyes for dinner everyday

"Evil is everywhere. Diablo Immortal is out now." that's Diablo Immortals titel on twitter, I'll admit i laughed hard on the fact that Diablo Immortal is Evil everywhere with it's p2w

I would pay $60 one time for a game, but with predatory monetization, f**k em.

This game should've been renamed,"Bobby's World and the Quest for the Golden Parachute!!!'

Huh, acting like Blizzard's name still has weight.

Its called immortal because you have to live forever to complete it!

44:05 best part

That's wrong. You can't ruin something that already thrashed to dust

The idea of Blizzard destroying their reputation even more after everything else they've done is truly horrifying. Like they have to be trying to become more hated than like Konami right?

I love how he thinks this would be worse for the company image than all the sexual misconduct at the company

This game is now allowed in the Netherlands and Belgium for a reason.

Why dont they just charge people normally for the game itself? If it has enough good content, people will be happy to pay for it.

tha thing is even if you are a pay to win player in diablo but doesnt know how to build your character you're not really doing anything special other than wasting money on this game

That`s why I like games like stardew valley, terraria, v rising, dont starve etc

I can't wait until we come full circle by getting horse armor microtransactions in Diablo 4.

They did give us the authentic Diablo experience. I feel like I’m in Hell 💀💀💀

imagine making a game so bad that gamers are begging the government for regulation 😂 way to go blizzard!

Many years ago, when I was a kid, I would just look through the Metzen art books that came with Blizzard games. There was a magic about their games. They made you want to be a part of their world. Now they are doing their homework on psychology to intentionally take advantage of people and take as much of their money as they can. What a colossal disappointment.

"Who cares about reputation? We're making all the money." -Blizzard

Zack: "I need a balding middle aged man to tell me how I feel about video games, obviously" Me, a regular Asmondgold watcher: "....yeah pretty much"

Fans: "Blizzard cant stoop any lower." Blizzard: "Hold my beer" *Releases diablo immoral*

The "Being invited into a party for everyone there trying to steal your wallet" quote was amazing, summed up Blizzard in a nutshell

I'm surprised that even for "fun" streamers in a attempt to show how insanely ludacrous the pay-to-win is, they had give blizzard even more money besides the downloads.... could've just torched the reviews without ever buying the game, and swear of blizzard from ones life.

Implying their reputation wasn't already in shambles to begin with.

If Blizzard treats their main games like mobile games, why would you think they would hold back with an actual mobile game?

15:30 McConnel is 100% right. Don’t do it. It isn’t worth it. The only way to make a change in the industry is to make them lose money. If you give them anything they will continue to do this garbage in gaming as long as they make money. It begins and ends with the consumer.

I'm sure this entire situation is infuriating for the devs, imagine spending so much time on a game, everyone I've heard so far has said the gameplay is really good, and then the entire game that you've spent months working on, that you know is a good game, is just torn to shreds by whoever decides all of this microtransaction crap. Let's hope Diablo 4 is better

I've played lost ark, I've played 5 different gacha games over the course of nearly a decade, and none of them even come close to this level of insanity, evil, deception, manipulation, or greed. Other games are consciously trying to not cross the line into exploiting gambling, addiction and other mental fallacies, because they know the shit they can get into if the line is crossed. Blizz are literally hiring psychologists to figure out how to maximally exploit every gambling, addiction, mental fallacy, as if they were operating an unregulated underground casino. It's actually bananas the evil and cynicism this company has embraced.

Ah yeah. Spending 100k on a mobile game. What a time to be alive.

You guys are missing another huge point. Gaming is amazing because it puts you in a fantasy world where everyone is on a level playing field. This brings the same capital class systems that plague the real world. Suddenly you are fighting a battle you cannot win no matter your skill level or how much time you spent training.

damn asmon you keep finding gold, straight from JD right back to blizz drama again. Legendary.

I like how Americans only know two currencies: 😂 1.) USD 2.) Not USD

Wiseguy once said " if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging" Blizzard seems to be trying to tunnel somewhere

I don't know man. I don't think you should be spending hundreds of dollars on this game. You can't make the point you are trying to make that nothing will change while actively helping it not change. Bellular is right, you do totally normalize it by participating and you have more mindshare than the average person. If you took a stance that it was wrong and shouldn't pay you would literally influence thousands of people not to pay. I'm not angry I'm disappointed in you. 😒

its actually really sad seeing the last shred of hope people had for Blizzard get destroyed,like I’ve never been a fan of their games but I respected the quality of their titles and to see them become what they are now is like seeing a famous athlete retire and resort to drug abuse

i lived my whole life without diablo immortal, and i can also live the rest of my life without it

The funniest thing is that if everyone who downloads the game only ever buys the 1 USD beginner pack, it will likely still easily cover the development cost tenfold.

Bold of you to assume Blizzard's reputation wasn't beyond ruined already

This is what tells me Blizzard really hasnt learned a damn thing. The recent changes in 9.2.5 and some of the Dragonflight previews almost made me want to come back. The mess of shadowlands definitely drove me away but I still hold out a faint hope they "might" redeem themselves. I fully realize this means the company itself has to truly realize they are heading in the wrong direction, but I almost though they actually realized that! Then...this. So no, they havent.

Honestly, I'm with McConnell on the argument. He's an absolute whack, but he knows his own sht got together more than Asmon does.

i dont think they care about their reputation, only money and they are making it alright, honestly all this rage is kinda sad just play good games and stop giving this piece of shit free publicity.

Blizzard died to me when they stopped making more Starcraft games. They been going downhill.

"Ruin Blizzard reputation." We are looooooong past that. That's like saying "Make water wet."

"Do you guys not have money?" -- Diablo Immortal developers, probably.

6:28 Loved the projection there. "I need a bearded balding guy to tell me what to think about video games." 16:10 I heard your monologue when you left. I stand corrected. Glad to hear you also think this is a scam.

Dude, you know what would be really awesome and 4th-barrier breaking? Imagine if in Diablo Immortal we discovered that Diablo is actually possessing the top-investors of Blizzard. Like, IRL. Then to fight evil in our own world we should stop playing evil gacha-iducing games: the problem is not the money, is our immortal Nephalen souls that we are feeding to Diablo!! They would be literally leeching our souls!! Then after the company declares bankrupcity we actually defeated Diablo!! After a few decades, a new Diablo (at least V because IV is still under the King of Terror's influence) game shows up and it actually doesnt suck (you soul). CHampions of Sanctuary and shit!! LIke, imagine?

The best boss in the game is close to the end, when you're 10k deep in your wallet, you got legendary gems everywhere and the final boss spawns... It's Blizzard simps telling you how fucking good the game is, and that it is free and paying is voluntary. Hardest boss to kill too.

My favourite part is when you fight Diablo and he reveals himself to be Morbious and says "its morbin time". Gives me chills every time.

I don't think people realize how much some people are willing to spend on a mobile game. I've been playing Star Trek Fleet Command for several years and in 3-1/2 years one lady spent over a million dollars to make sure she was the highest level person in the game. They threw a company wide party when she hit 1 mil and then they named a star system after her and put it in the game.

Watching asmon play immortal is like watching a multi-millionaire smoke crack just because he can

$770,000 and sum change to fully max out all character slots with max 5 star gem slots on all equipment. I rather buy a 3 story house and corvette C8 with change than specifically colored internet pixels for that money.

Playing these games on stream also supports what these companies are doing and also gets kids that are watching streamers play this and spending money in this way to play games is also negatively influencing them. I know it feels like a lost battle 99% of the time and that our opinions mean nothing but i do think if the gaming community stands together changes can be made, it happened with Battlefront 2 and their lootboxes.

Blizzard 2018: Do you guys not have phones? Blizzard 2022: Do you guys not have money?

If you are giving blizzard time after what happened with the wow allegations then you're getting exactly the shit predatory games you deserve.

I hope this will keep getting worse and worse, because it creates endless content for me. I enjoy listening to people complaining about this stuff. It's so satisfying to watch Bellular shitting on Blizzard after all the years of praise he gave this god awful company. Let it never end!

No amount of crap will ever ruin Blizzard. They have been doing crap for years now and people still support them. It is a lost cause tbh.

I love Asmon, been watching for years, but the man is being so cringe with this act about wanting to spend money. He is a true addict. Mcconnell is absolutely correct.

Diablo immortal makes genshinimpact look cheap, atleast if you're a whale in genshin, the most you'd pay if you're going for c6 (7 copies of a character) it would cost you 1200-2200 depending on your luck. And atleast with that you get game changing upgrades to that character. Keeping in mind most people will only go for 1 copy of the character and be done. Instead of 50k for reduced incoming damage in diablo immortal.

Why are people thinking blizzard is running their reputation nowM they done so for years already. Yet people are still loyal or keep coming back to their stuff despite their many many scandals

i disagree with the initial statement. After Warcraft 3 ref*cked and Diablo 2 Resuwrecked and WoW Shadowblands Blizzard doesnt have a Reputation left to ruin. Add the real life scandals and people jumping the ship....Blizzard is dead. And in my honest oppinion they already f*cked up Diablo 3 by eleminating difficulty and taking the "dark horror" out of the game that created the dark horror fantasy genre

It's called diablo immortal, because you have to be immortal to reach proper end game without paying.

Imagine how much of a hit it could have been *without* the predatory micro-transaction system.

The game is amazing, when Deckard Cain said "Morb a while, and listen" I knew that one day I was going to become a game developer, I want to see the same game magic be passed on to my kids and grandkids, that's the world I want to live in.

"WILL ruin?" Blizzard's reputation is already ruined. Right now, all they do is trampling on the corpses of our childhood heroes.

Hope Asmon can win the game after spending 100K

Blizzard must be rly good at limbo judging by how low they're willing to go to get the moneys

What reputation? they hit rock bottom long ago

When somone describes the games as addictive instead of fun, i know there's a problem there

Played it for 3 days and now It started feel pointless unless you are ready to burn your hard earned money into something worthless. If you are thinking about spending any money into this evil shit, why don’t you get something for your mama instead. She deserves way more than this garbage

Blizzard dont you guys have phones? LOL then they make Cash cow Diablo Immoral $100,000 to beat it LOL

Dude this was one of the funniest videos ive ever seen. I literally couldnt stop laughing.

Nearly lost my mind seeing the implication that Blizzard doesn’t already have negative reputation with all factions

So is it just a yearly tradition to pretend like "This one thing ruined Blizzard"?

"I'm losing money if I don't buy this" is the mentality that causes crippling debt and eventual self deletion.

People spending money on games like these should really seek therapy. This is anything but healthy, completely independend of wether you have money or not. It's not even a question of beeing rich or poor. You actively support the industry in their completely stupid ways of making games these days.

"Eroding how reasonable normal is." That is why people have been able to slowly be desensitized to violence in the world, politics, everything. No one would have stomached the greed and depravity of this world if it hadn't been slowly fed to us, and made us forget what normal even is, what decency even is. It's always just the next thing, a little worse, and we accept it, because we were trained to accept it.

The part at the end "it doesnt matter, those people are still going to go off and do stupid shit like that anyway," while you're right, dumb people are going to make dumb choices no matter what, the problem still persists that you playing and paying AND advertising it for your own profit does in fact normalize this shit and encourage others to do the same, and ultimately rewards blizzard for their own malicious design.. but you dont care because you profit from it to, making you just as bad as blizzard. Rather than them choosing to go with a sensible but profitable design (something like how square enix runs dissidia opera omnia) they chose to manipulate and exploit their players for money in the most extreme ways possible... you to are manipulating and exploiting this situation in ridiculous ways for your own profit regardless of the broader reaching negative consequences, you dont care because "fuck you, got mine." They could have chosen a better but still profitable path even if it was less profitable than exploiting their players and dragging the industry down.. and you could have chosen a better but still profitable path even if it was less profitable than manipulating and goading your audience in your own way, which, what a surprise, is also dragging gaming down. I get it, as a "streamer" you need to ride the trends, just like with elden ring, ff14, new age, etc, its how you stay relevant and make money. But in this one case, where the game is incredibly maliciously designed to exploit the user in every way possible and is a fucking shitstain on the face of gaming, you could have taken the better path, gotten in touch with other streamers and all decided and publicly announced you'd be boycotting playing the game because of how vile blizzard has been about exploiting their players.... but no, you'd rather choose to do what you always do, make up bullshit to rationalize your poor behavior.. ya know.. the same shit blizzard does... so that you can keep doing what you do even at the expense of players and the industry as a whole. I despise what belluar wants, which is government legislation to stop these practices by game companies.. I hate the idea of corrupt and stupid politicians sticking their dicks in gaming yet again. But maybe thats the only solution, since assclowns like you, who HAVE the power, have the voice, have the reach, have the influence, have the social and professional connections, to actually make an impact and put enough pressure to make companies like blizzard change course... someone like you refuses to do any of that and would rather just exploit the situation for your own profit rather than take the high road. You're just a pathetic asshole, no better than the blizzard devs who designed the shitshow that is diablo immortal.

172k for bellular is pretty kewl. I hope you guys actually go and support their channel. They are also a game making studio with some type of pc release in the work for a survival game. Been watching them for years.

Dunno why people keep bringing up Lost Ark. Yeah, you can buy mats in Lost Ark, if you want.. But even with good gear, you can still be horrible at the game, and take days to kill the hardest bosses, like Asmongold. Diablo Immortal is idiot proof if you buy all of the shit, you get MASSIVE power increases. Spending a significant amount of money on mats in Lost Ark is just dumb, you're just burning money.

asmon says "not playing a game just doesn't work", but it does. Its rare but its literally just a matter of numbers. Starwars battlefront 2 is an excellent example of this. Its microtransactions were so predatory, so absurd, that the playerbase said "fuck this" and they actually rolled that shit back to a semi playable state. With how egregious these microtransactions are people could do the same with diablo immortal, so saying "oh that's just not possible" is patently ridiculous. Going into these systems and whaling the shit out of them isn't how you get change. you're effectively going "hey viewers look at what you COULD have if you just spend a few bucks!", while also supporting blizzard themselves for implementing the systems. If you actually wanted to showcase these systems in their egregiousness to enact change you'd literally be doing the opposite. Showing viewers how much worse the experience is as a f2p, rather than how much better it is as a whale.

Asmon logic here is just crazy. Going deep in the game to show how deep are its problems will only bring more people into the game. Look at how many people started FF14 because of him. Look at how many people started lost ark because of him. Heck, I never liked pay to win games and I started playing lost ark after watching him. I even felt tempted to try Diablo immortal too. The denial of his influence just doesn't make any fuckiong sense.

Pretend they didn't release the shop, and just play the game and you will see it plays basically exactly like Diablo 3,especially if you use a controller. It is fun and you can grind as much as you had to in previous games. But then you see they are selling something that will boost your stats immediately, and all the sudden, people on here crying acting like they can't play the game without spending money. LMFAO!!!

I recently watched another video, by someone who worked in Zynga(Farmville franchise), and in his video he said that his company Zynga literally hired Business Managers from Vegas. Yeah, VEGAS had to be in the portfolio or GTFO.

First time I have absolutely no interest in playing a Diablo game.

11:00 "So you buy the crests with real money and then you use the crests to get a higher chance..." Close. You buy the currency to buy crests with real money and then you use the crests for a chance to get an overpowered item that you can't get if you're F2P that you then need to spend more money on to level up by buying more currency that buys you more crests that gives you more gems that you use to upgrade the overpowered item. It's pay to win and obfuscated gambling and distancing people from having a realistic view of what things cost and hiding the largest portion of the actual cost for that item to have it at its max level, all rolled into one. Strangely enough, only the gambling part is why it's banned from The Netherlands and Belgium. Obscuring costs so that the player has no idea what something costs and making them pay with fictional currency is completely legal. A legendary crest costs $2.64 or 2,3733... pounds. And yes, that was on purpose so you have no way of calculating in your head how much money you've put in. Slightly less and definitely not round numbers when you buy with a 5%, 10%, or 15% discount. Even the 4.5% chance of getting a 5 star gem is purposefully not 5% because that would make calculating too easy by converting that to 1/20, but that was almost unnecessary because that 5 star gem will only be 1/5 most of the time and only have a 1% chance of being 5/5. But yeah, let's say you have a 5% chance, then it would be easy to say it's a 1/2000 chance to get a 5/5 legendary gem and people would. Making it 4.5% does stop people from saying it's less than 1/2000 chance and even that was on purpose. They literally used literally every trick in the book on literally everything in the game. I wouldn't even be surprised if Diablo III was made the way that it is just to prime people for this game, just so the style of storytelling and questing would be familiar and that especially non gamers and phone gamers would be drawn in because it's so incredibly easy and has no challenges besides understanding gazillions of currency, upgrades, spamming lots of graphics and big numbers and colours to distract from the lack of an actual game underneath.

Attic Jesus you are my new fav streamer thanks for the hard work bro

Okay, most of us got your sarcasm already Asmongold. There is no need to continue to play this game and throwing money to a company that doesn't deserve it. So what about that FFXIV that you promised us which you said you will after DeppAmber trial?

If it's free with MTX, people complain. If it's paid with MTX, people complain. Have you people never played a mobile game? I don't know of any multiplayer mobile game that isn't pay to win in some fashion.

there standards must be below the level of dog *** playing such bad games everyday, looks like a low quality port of diablo 3, u could easily mistake it for a direct port to mobile infact, with graphics settings reduced and mobile controls, so not sure why they think its fun... they probably should just go play diablo 3 then.

It's a game for whales. Let them have their game, play something else. I know I wont be playing it, probably won't play D4 either. Serve enough turds to your customers, they stop taking a bite after a while.

"it's optional" Then why it's banned in Belgium and the Netherlands. Atleast we defend our children against these predatory practices. To be fair i haven't missed anything by not playing Lost Ark.

I don’t really watch asmon, and In my opinion he didn’t add anything of value by commentating over this. The video speaks for itself, why add an extra 15 minutes of redundant sarcasm?

Can't wait for this to carry over into retail!! Just got your BIS on the newest raid... sweet that will be 4.99 cents to equip it. What you don't have PayPal on your phone!?