Diablo IV Monetization Plans Leaked | Asmongold Reacts to Force Gaming 

This is what happens when people who love gaming create a company, then people who love money buy that company.

I miss the days of not having to consider the monetization of a game before playing it.

Sad that the diablo franchise is becoming the face of the most toxic,manipulative micro transactions in the western gaming market,well done blizzard.

The problem with justifying the cosmetics AND battlepass is that most of the "continuous development" as Asmon calls it will go into expansions which they will ALSO sell for box price. Look at the "continuous development" that D3 received. I'm with Force on this one, I can't see enough continous development for an ARPG to justify all these routes to monetization.

I always find the 'games haven't increased in price' argument strange. We only really have these conversations regarding AAA games, the games that make the most money, the games that not only recoup their dev costs, but also accrue enough dollars to pay publisher CEOs hundreds of millions of dollars. For most workers producing products for profit based companies, as long as the company can pay the wages of the workers 'while' they're making it, plus provide some profit for the higher ups to buy a yacht, all is good and the product and company are seen as viable. Over time, that company would try to balance maintaining quality with the rise of inflation and wages by expanding their customer base - something price reductions were very good at doing. The same quality - for less - over time. Ignoring all the late-stage-capitalism arguments for now, none of this seems to apply to games for some reason. Is it the 'Art' aspect of gaming? Why does anyone look at the companies that make games, see them making absolutely ridiculous amounts of money, and still think the price of games should have gone up? Is it because of the quality of the product rising? Many people would argue the quality of these games has actually decreased on release. I don't see why any product, gaming included, taking the above considerations into account, has to increase the cost of said product over time. Bringing back in those late-stage-capitalism arguments: If productions costs are met, salaries are met in line with inflation, fat cat wages increase, and the customer base expands exponentially, why, as a consumer, should you believe that product should cost more than it used to? That attitude is WHY inflation is increasing so rapidly. These companies can never just have 'enough', and they seem to have convinced consumers that their need for more and more profit is not only reasonable, but necessary. The problem is publicly traded companies isn't it? Shareholders are never happy. Maybe we shouldn't try to mix 'Art' with rampant greed?

16:40 you forgot that in 2005 most if not all games were sold on a hard copy. Hard copy has manufacturing cost, storage and logistic fee, the publisher had to publish it sometimes on a world wide scale. A digital game has non of this.

The fact that people spent 1 whole hour discussing how the game will try to get your money, instead of how cool it looks, or how good it might feel to cast spells and kill demons says a lot of how much video games have changed for the worst in the past years.

I’ve been looking forward to Diablo 4 for the past 5 years… if they really crush it and make it Pay to Win, I will never play another Blizzard game. Hopefully Riot MMO is good

I completely disagree. I think most people would be willing to spend 90$ or even more if the company promised not to monetize the game in other capacities. But no game company has tried. Why? Because their existing systems are more profitable.

"If it's cosmetics it's okay" No. We need to stop with that stupid line of thinking. The reason microtransactions in gaming are at the point they are now is because we keep being weak sniveling morons when it comes to this. No microtransactions are good. Right down the line. Gamers need to start being a bit intelligent and stop supporting awful practices like cosmetic microtransactions. Cosmetics bad, battle passes bad. Devs need to stop this "games as a service" concept. They should just, you know, release games and let them be. "Continuous development" is fucking stupid. Diablo 1 was released and remained as-is (with Hellfire being seen by the fanbase as largely unofficial since it wasn't made by the original devs). Diablo 1 is still amazing regardless of that, Hellfire or not. Same with Diablo 2, that got the expansion, and that's it. No microtransactions, no "cosmetics", just one of the best games ever, still to this day, and that's all it had to be. Why shouldn't Diablo 4 just come out and largely remain as-is forever? What changed about gaming that games being good isn't the desirable outcome, but instead they need to be shit but get new shitty content all the time?

You're utterly deluding yourself if you don't expect there to be tremendous pressure to monetize the game now that they have the receipts from Immortal and know how much potential money they're leaving on the table by being nice for niceness' sake. Does the negative PR factor in? I'm sure. But seriously, brace yourself.

I love how companies can now charge a box price and then also create a racket with cosmetics in the game and now that's completely understandable. Nah, fuck that. If you are making me pay a box price then I want everything. I can't believe I am actually getting less excited to play D4.

Asmon: "Im sad this is cancer growing on gaming" also Asmon: "LETS GO BOYS TIME TO PUMP SOME MONEYS ON THE CANCER GROWING ON GAMING LETS GOOOOOOOO"

When discussing dev costs relative to the price “not changing” it’s kind of dumb to not also include how massive the industry has gotten. The audience size has grown exponentially

The numbers are hidden for a reason. To equate inflation and the rising cost of things to how these games are monetized in the modern age is wrong. Companies have always pushed the boundaries of what is the acceptable minimum of content upon a release. And what they could sell later, in the same game for an added cost without being scorned for not including said content with the initial release.

So we basically have a second EA then. Can't even call them Blizzard anymore without it being a punchline to a joke.

Horse Armour DLC in 2022!? The serpent is truly eating it’s own tail

Lemme guess, you are gonna buy everything in the game to “prove a point” and so “y’all don’t have to” Only to discover that you have a positive effect on spending just by playing the game and your master plan does the opposite of what you think it does

I love how Asmon defends every scummy practice videogame corporate companies are doing to gamers. Some of the worst takes I’ve ever heard. I guess we should raise video game prices because normies are making more than $10 an hour. Never mind, the cost of living increases that have superseded wages.

I feel pure disgust when I see how much profit D Immortal has generated in this short span of time. It's like majority of the players can't discern what's right and what's not. Preorders should be the thing of the past. Preordering the game just doesn't make any sense if you only buy digital copy. Get a grip, wait for a game to come out, read few reviews and support the games that deserve it. Don't jump on the hype wagon and don't preorder after you watched flashy trailer that's literally designed to only show fun parts of the game. Don't buy loot boxes. EVER.Why spend stupid amount of money on loot boxes which are basically hazard, when a 100 bucks could get you 2-3 brand new games that could occupy you for months. It's just like Asmon said, corruption of the whole gaming market is just a matter of time and things are going to get much worse before they get better. I'm just glad there is still good developers out there who develop the games without loot boxes, battle passes and P2W. I'm more than happy to pay more for the game as long as none of the things mentioned in the video are would not be present in the game.

I couldn't get far into this video personally. Something I was told a long time ago was that microtransactions goes directly to the CEO's pocket. Not the programmers who worked on the game, not the employees, not even the company. Activision Blizzard cement it to me, from the employees being so underpaid that they can't afford to buy lunch from the studio's cafeteria to Bobby being I think the second most overpaid CEO in the USA. If it was the cost of making games that mattered most, they would look for ways to cut corners and cheaper alternatives first. It was never about the cost of making games that microtansactions were made, but how to exploit the consumers.

Yeah guys it wont be pay to win... it will just have pay2haveprogression, pay2play 7 days earlier and pay2own any of the midly cool or interesting skins. Isnt that great. Isnt the "well the devs have to eat too, so just let them monetize EVERYTHING besides balance" going so great. Isnt it nice when balance isnt compromised - but progression, artstyle and engagement are? Dont forget to drop 100$ on premium battlepass to unlock Chinese New Year skins. Or Santa Christmas skins. Gotta have that seasonal stuff after all. Also doesnt the "preorder skins can be used infinite amount of times" sound interesting. Oh boy if they have X uses per skin, that will be great.

Just let us buy the fucking game, and earn everything through PLAYING it. Such a CRAZY idea isn't it?

I've literally given away my copies of diablo 3, uninstalled diablo 2, and also gave away all my copies of CoD. As far as I'm concerned Blizzard and Activision are non existent to me. I will not support these companies.

Thanks for the update Asmongold... unfortunately I think this is the final nail in the coffin for me... bye Blizzard. Sad to go, but I guess it was bound to happen sometime.

The survey at the start is conjoint analysis. They randomize the traits of the "editions" of the game, and make the survey respondent choose from a bunch of sets of random options. This is used to see relative values of different features, so they know what people are most likely to pay for. So, it's unlikely those exactly will be the options. But something like that is definitely coming.

I remember enjoying diablo 2 immensely in my teens and twenties. The more I hear about monetization in these games the more I realize that I'm not interested in them anymore. Seasons, special packs, a market, bought gear or item chances, a secondary bought currency that injects your character with power or cosmetic items while undermining the actual in game universe. All of these things take away from immersion, make the game feel like a financial burden, and creates incentives for the developer to take things out of the game to sell them piecemeal to buyers of the game as "microtransactions". Imagine a subset of players going after the cosmetic items the same way stone of jordans were in diablo 2. It could be quite fun to go for these cosmetic items in the game, if they were in the game.

79€ for a PC Game. Lmao. I'm out.

When you talked about the portion about him saying "I dont believe a game that costs 60$ should have a battlepass" you seemed to have misunderstood him. He is okay with games that cost 60$ + cosmetic transaction - to fund consistent development. His issue is with 60$ box price, cosmetic store, battlepass. At that point its greed and not funding development.

Looking a little stressed and jaded here Asmongold. Was quite surprised (even though I get your stance)when you mentioned increasing monetization rather than reducing it, which 'might' create more awareness of its predatory nature. I feel that the opposite will be true and cement said 'features' permanently. Something felt off with you watching this.

The take that games haven’t increased in price because people aren’t willing to pay it is incredibly disingenuous. As someone who works in game development, even in the last 5 years, the cost to produce a game has drastically decreased, especially with the massive decrease in physical copies needed to be produced, and shipped. If anything games should be significantly cheaper than they were in 2005. Tech is one of the few industries where as things progress, it tends to get significantly cheaper to make.

As much as I wanna believe that “will not impact gameplay” they literally said the same thing about immortal on the chests

Pretty sad seeing him grossly misinterpret wages against inflation. And the fact that he was so adamant that he was right about it just makes me shake my head.

Diablo is the game that got me to build my first PC at 12 in 1996 when i played diablo 1 on a demo disk. All i could afford was a 486 which struggled to run windows 95..... but it worked. Before that i had Atari's and commodore but this is the game that got me into PC gaming. I wont be playing diablo4, this game franchise is dead. All we have now are memories of something that was once great.

As someone with over 1000 hours in D3 I would like to clarify some points which both Azmon and Force have made incorrectly: 1) you cannot trade in D3 anymore, any loot (gems and cosmetics included) is account bound; 2) you can only buy extra stash for in-game gold, which you can ONLY get by playing the game; 3) there ARE cosmetics in D3 (pets, wings, banners etc) but they are obtained either by finding from treasury goblins, completing seasonal challenges or given for special events (e.g. release or anniversary of another Blizzard game). D4 having microtransactions and battle pass while being a full game is of course bullshit, as it means to me it will also strive to be this modern live-service game driven by FOMO, which is very sad.

Asmon sometimes has some weird ass logic like "wages are increasing" therefore game prices should also increase too in some way or form i.e. ingame cosmetics. He forgets that cost of living are skyrocketing along with rent. Your wage increase means nothing if people can't have extra money to spend on entertainments.

I used to buy Cod at 60$ now it's 100$ but the quality is worse and filled with microtransactions and that's the same with most games. How do you explain that?

Another blizzard game to avoid, so glad they listen.

I really needed this game to be good and micro transaction free. See you on the other side guys its been real ✌️

When we have these discussions we need to remember that most of the micro-transaction income goes straight to executives and shareholders, the defense of "we need to pay the devs for the extra content" isn't really a good one

"A game cannot exist based on the box price!" Guild Wars 1 disagrees, 17 years later!

17:50 Dude, stop. The number of consumers for games have increased several-fold since 2002. When you have that much sale security, you're covered as long as the game isn't outted as a flop. We're not even going to talk about the money digital copies saves in manufacturing costs or the beta testers they no longer hire.

Rest assured blizzard, no matter what you put out this man is going to blow 1500 dollars on it within 3 days of release! Don't worry, make it as bad as you want to!

Gaming is dead.

Asmon is wrong regarding the game not laster forever based on the box price .. diablo 2 is still up and running, I got that game in 1998 & the playerbase from then is still active, they moved to D2R, but the real OG's all play mods such as PD2. Seeing pay to win garbage for Diablo 4 will not be inviting to the OG diablo player base, which is primarily men in their 30's.

It's depressing but i think it's just a lost battle unless governments step in to regulate. With the "success" of Diablo immortal i would imagine the higher management at Activision is pushing hard to get similar monetization into Diablo 4. I'm not surprised, not even disappointed anymore as i don't have any expectations... I'm just sad to see gaming being at the place it is atm.

"IT HAS NO EFFECT ON GAMEPLAY" Aside from removing something from the game that is a key reason to play. Finding cool shit that looks cool is a game hook.

just remember when comparing PoE and Diablo, PoE is free to play and has cosmetic MTs.

"60 dollar games were introduced in the Xbox era" Me... laughing in Sega Master System with my 80 dollar games.

surely the MTX money always goes into further development and not into yacht savings

"Thank you for your sacrifice." IE-whoever streamed it lost their family member/friend their job. 100% they were fired for this.

Blizzard makes another game with toxic monetization/in-game transactions. Everyone: **Surprised Pikachu face**

My heart is broken, Blizzard will NEVER see another dime from me.

Essentially out of the system lucky millionaire who worked at Sam's club that pays the same amount today as it did when he worked it: Wages are absolutely increasing I'm not going to listen to that. I wonder where the angry droves come from sometimes. It truly is a mystery.

16:35 It depends on the game. There are actually a couple of counterexamples to almonds claim… noMansSky, Titanfall 2 plus a large amount of games that have received updates for years after release for example Starsector.

16:30 companies doesnt receive most of the money from game purchases, it gets from skins and cosmetic purchases. Look at PoE, company runs well despite game is free to play. So paying 60$ for a game i would say its reasonable, but paying for every expansion additional money? Cmon..

Cosmetic items have always been the backbone of grooming players to feel its ok to spend money into microtransactions. And this effect transfers over well beyond D4 into games that are predatory and pay 2 win. So screw cosmetics.

Video game prices haven't gone up? Every single generation of consoles just as a reference point has seen the base box cost go up by an average price of 5 to 10 USD globally. Ps2 games were 40-60, PS3 were 50-70 ps4 were 60-80 with a rare 50 exception and ps5 is now starting at 70 I love your content but don't come and say prices aren't going up in accordance with the inflation. Seen at the level of what you're getting the percentage increase based on unit sales is similar to that of the increase on milk. A lot of your arguments are literally contradicting each other basing F2P allowed freedoms and directly placing them into a full release AAA title...

wages r def NOT increasing effectively (numerically yea sure), 1rst, we live on a MULTI country planet sooo, its different depending on where u live, 2nd, inflation outruns wage increase so, effectively people has LESS money for games, sure games have the same price and they r "cheaper"... and generally worse and rushed then, MAYBE they get finished 3 years after release... so. screw that and battlepases.. they develop a great, full and complete game like game devs used to (with the new tech of today obiously,i mean back then that was the best they had too, and in 20 years current games will look ancient so thats not a valid point, current games are AS hard to develop as old games, new and better tools=better results with the same time) then if they charge 100$ for THAT... ok, fair enough, do it, but do THE BEST thing tech permits, let tech be the limiting factor not deadlines... ofc that wont happen with activision, ea and the likes, but its what it is...

Blizzard have big plans for our wallets. At this point I just really want to see the most elaborate cash shop every put together, some new ideas: - They should just put a fog around the screen that you need to pay to remove every 5 mins, - repairs should cost platinum. - I want to see rifts cost cash to enter. - i want to see battlepass required to access vendors. - I want to see some epic gem scam thats "just for the whales, its like a bottomless pit". - you can pay for your own instance of the game, or you farm with others.

if the monetization has no effect on gameplay then i dont care honestly

I dont know if he later talks about it, but even if the price of videogames hasnt gone up, they are making way more money than back in the day. Blizzard's not dying because they cant sell their games for 10 more $ lol

Yeah go fucking figure RPGs feel lame as fuck when that cool looking sword comes from a $30 credit card swipe and not, you know, actually earning it. It ruins the character fantasy and the world. There's a certain level of expectation I have when paying an upfront cost, and being able to build my character and earn shit in that paid for setting is one of them. I'd rather these live service f2p games start monetizing the transmog system some way, and still require you to earn the actual item itself in-game. Like maybe putting together a mog and then having to pay a REASONABLE price to add it to an outfit collection of some type that you have forever, like a skin. But, if I am paying for an xpac, in my eyes, I've paid for those armor pieces already. This shit is trash, and honestly Asmon is sucking big Blizz cock here.

Got Horse Armor. An oldie but a goodie. Its almost like Blizzard is trying to make themselves an even bigger meme laughingstock at this point.

I can pretty firmly say that I think Diablo 2: Resurrected will be my last Diablo experience. I cannot support Blizzard in their future games after all this bullshit.

Even the survey is manipulative/predatory lol (To elaborate a bit more: Blizzard wants you to pick Option A by making you completely disregard option B and C.)

As a professional Technical Artist in the games industry, there is A LOT more that goes into creating new skins than Ctrl + C -> Ctrl + V. Sure simple recolors don't take much effort, especially if the shader is already set up for it, but usually skins are more than a simple recolor, especially since Riot set the standard there.

Thanks to everyone that played/spent money on Diablo Immortal to make these microtransactions possible in D4. Way to give them millions of dollars when you swore you were never gonna touch Diablo Immortal but did anyways. The fans should really be patting themselves on the backs for being able to change the main series into an MMO mobile game. Very impressive loyalism.

I get the comparison to PoE, but there's 1 huge problem. PoE is a F2P game done right, Diablo IV is a triple A 60$ game with the same or worst microtransactions as a F2P game. So what exactly are we paying 60$ for over PoE?

Ohh hell no. I don’t want to play Diablo 4 if there is monetization. It’s a slippery slope. This blows

I wonder if Blizzard is learning the right lessons from the Diablo Immortal blow back, or if they are instead learning that big abusive monetization makes big abusive monetization profits.

7 day head start is insane. Games cost the same because the technology made to produce it got cheaper. When CD-RW first came out they were expensive as hell and then years later on black friday you could get 50-100 for a dollar. Also they sell digital copies for the same price and save A LOT of the cost of a physical copy, another reason why games are the same cost. Hopefully its just cosmetics rewards for battlepass but not holding my breath

All cool and so, but there's one question. You spend so much time talking about blizzard games having terrible microtransactions and so on, but you still talk about these games. You're the one of many that makes them popular. Why are you against their practices if you're the one sticking to them? And there's GW2. A great game, fair pvp system, gems can be bought by gold, great solution to power creep, etc. It's not the best, but it's definitely not bad. And there's nothing about that game in the RU-vid/Twitch. Almost no one is making content for this game, no one is watching. It's mostly the game "how you want games to be" and you ignore it. Instead of helping a good game (gw is just one example) to get more popularity you continue to advertise blitz games. I wonder why predatory monetization systems work. You want to accelerate this process? Well, guess what, content creators are the biggest reason this process takes so long. They create the hype even by saying that the game is bad. Because a random casual player will hear about DI not about any other game. And he may find some fun in it, because casual players and gamers value different things in games. And yet the playersbase of DI of all things is growing.

2005 box price of 60 dollar argument is such bullcrap. Back then you had to physically publish the copies, there was a lot of logistics and getting those copies around the world. If you published more than you could sell, guess what, you lost money. Now you download the game via internet that costs 0 and the gaming market in 10x.

The fact they were charging that price back in the day, and haven't changed pricing just shows how little it costs to develop the game, and how much profits they have been taking in for years

I imagine that the reduction distribution costs level out the inflation at least on initial release. Do we consider what are the savings due to not having to ship and box games?

Thanks for covering and bringing this to light fellas. Now I know to just ignore and forget everything about Diablo 4 and pretend it doesn't exist.

If diablo 4 is littered with micro transactions i'm just not gonna buy it. I don't know why people put up with this nowadays. Blizzard just makes me sick with this garbage. I don't even want to play any of their games anymore.

The BattlePass is what made me uninstall Diablo Immortal. You should NOT lose your stuff if you don't have time to complete it. I'm already not going to bother with D4.

I can accept that game prices need to go up when these publishes stop getting billions in profits and are paying their fair share of taxes, as well as their employees fairly.

It boggles my mind how after 10 years of monetization and micro transactions people still waste there money,we do it to ourselves,blaming companies when we enable them is why they do it

That would be like some teams competing for world's first raids in Destiny 2 got to start playing a full reset before others did. In the past like Forsaken it would have been a HUGE advantage as day 1 raids weren't under contest mode and the extra power drops they got would have put them at level for the activity while everybody else would be under-leveled. Even today they would have more time to get xp meaning the most powerful mods further into the artifact would be available to them and they'd also have time to unlock and farm more of the new expansion loot that could be more powerful than older stuff. So I can see how in a game with a market it would also provide a huge advantage.

and people said genshin monetization is expensive....

Selling cosmetics in a game that's all about looting in the first place is just wrong on so many levels. Why would they even bother making any of the in-game earnable loot cool to earn when you can just drop money on the cool stuff. Thankfully D2 is still very active.

As someone else said there’s no shot it won’t be heavily monetized because of the “success” immortal had.

The price hasn´t increased for the game itself but the audience has grown by a large margin which easily makes up for the inflation. The issue is that these companys are trying to make as much money as possible for share holders.

Got to love how Zack watches every video ahead of time, then pretends he's watching it for the first time with viewers so he can sound smart when he knows what the person in the video is going to say.

there were TONS of 60$ games way before 2006.. super mario 64 was a 60$ game for example. it has nothing to do with ps3 or xbox 360.

a game with a pricetag shouldn't have any further monetization.

Keep in mind everyone: Blizzard claimed there would be no pay to win in Diablo Immortal, and it did not exist in the alpha or beta versions of the game. Blizzard did a 100% bait and switch, and this is always a possibility. Blade and Soul, an older Korean MMO, didn't release their major pay to win systems until a few months after release, once players were invested in the game. WoW monetizes tokens, Hearthstone monetizes card packs, HoS monetizes heroes... don't fool yourselves. Blizzard CAN AND WILL monetize this game, and they are simply trying to garner some good PR before launch so they can increase sales. They know what people want to hear, and they aren't afraid to lie.

Dunkey actually had a pretty good/interesting Video that dives into the perceived increase in the cost of games/consoles over time (based on the sticker cost) Vs the actual constant decrease in what they cost when you factor in inflation and the value of today's dollar. Now, this doesn't take into account the the idea that real wages have stagnated the past 40-45 years, decreasing the buying power of the average consumer. Meaning that even though the cost relative to the value of a dollar has gone down, the cost relative to what people actually have available to spend (as a percentage of the disposable income they have left over after paying bills) hasn't gone down nearly as much, and in some cases has gone up. It also isnt really trying to include the examples of egregious monetization in live service games and the vast amounts people are encouraged to spend over time... But as far as sticker prices on buying a game "at face value" his points hold true. So all this is to say, there are a few reasons that video games FEEL more expensive to the average person than they were in prior decades, but in terms of sheer dollar value they are not more expensive, they are exponentially cheaper. An Atari was more expensive in 1980 than a PS5 was in 2020 🤯

The game truly lives up to its title now, even its makers got corrupted by the devil giving them a curse of insatiable greed.

You know I really like when I buy a game for the price listed in the store and I get the whole game without having to break out my wallet to look cool or progress at a reasonable pace in the game I paid for already. But I guess that's just too much to ask anymore.

we all need to stop complaining about game companies being greedy. it's our fault, we bought their bullshit games and their garbage skins and all the other shit, we as gamers showed them that we will buy any shit they throw at us so of course they keep doing it. stop buying their bullshit, and they will stop making it, easy. but nobody is gonna do that

I hope they come to their senses and realize how much of a MASSIVE DISAPPOINTMENT it'd be for MILLIONS OF FANS of the Diablo series if they go over board with an aggressive monetization scheme.

I have played hundreds of mobile games across a few years now and these monetization models are taken from what is tried and proven in mobile games. Mobile games easily make money and they are cheap to make, a decent mobile game easily makes more money than a decent AAA game and it seems like Blizzard is the first to cave to this. Expect to see more companies take this route unless the government steps in which is unlikely.

We can definitely appreciate all the arpgs that came from the franchise and take that as a positive to the gaming community as a whole. Games like Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, Last Epoch and Lost Ark are all some of the best games ever made inspired by this one. It's unfortunate where the social aspect of gaming has become who has the biggest paycheck, but it was just a matter of time, and blizzard is only doing what makes the most money at the end of the day. The only people who can stop the problem is the ones who contribute at the same time, so it seems like we are stuck with the ultimate reality of it only becoming worse with time. All in all, appreciate it for what it was and what became from it, and realize this is a way bigger issue than just Diablo. They are just following stride and doing a great job of printing money.

Blizzard died when the suits from Activision started to take control. I hope Microsoft can turn it around but honestly might be a better idea to just shut it down and sit on the IP for a few years.

I understand battle passes for games that are free and are required for monetization, but Diablo 4 is going to cost money with more money to get the battle pass for only cosmetics.

The last couple Videos with you talking about Monetization and Manipulation in Videogames opened my Eyes. Honestly didnt realize that and they helped me change my Mind and get more aware of it. Thanks @Asmongold TV