Diablo 2 Resurrected didn't pioneer

"In the organization I worked in, there were weekly events that offered unique prizes and they were designed to let you [...] finish it using uncommon in-game currency, which would allow you to take home one of the main prizes. But designers also had to add D2R Items additional milestone prizes following the main prize, which would usually require spending real cash to be able to win the event. Many of our milestones and metrics to measure whether an event was successful is the amount people put into. We did take into account sentiment, however I'm sure the upper-levels have always been more interested in whether the event enticed people to spend."

Real-time transactions don't have a new look in any way by any stretch of the imagination. Diablo 2 Resurrected  didn't pioneer them however it would be insincere to make that claim as reality. Blizzard's action-RPG isn't the root cause, but instead the most savage amalgamation of free to play mobile and PC games. Two different Battle Passes each with different rewards, each exclusive to your character (and not your overall roster) and too many different currencies for a typical player to keep track of, Diablo 2 Resurrected 's economy reads like a mobile marketplace monstrosity.

The practices, even if they're opposed, have become normalized within the entire industry. One could argue that the use of loot boxes and other real-money transactions within AAA games has created this type of predatory economy -- but the more AAA gaming shifts to the games-as a service model, the more it has in common with the mobile gaming that has existed within this extremely popular sphere for almost a decade.

And this isn't just apparent in the use of money to purchase items however, it is also evident in gacha mechanics as well as in the information about drop rates in rarer items. Gacha is using game currency, whether it's free, or purchased through an in-game shop to acquire something random items, such as equipment pieces in the case of Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia or characters from the ever-popular (and persistant) Fate/Grand Order or Genshin Impact.

In Diablo 2 Resurrected 's case, there's the usage of legendary crests (which can be earned or purchased) to increase the odds of a five-star gem appearing in the dungeons at the end of the game. While not entirely traditional in its approach to presentation (most gachas are played by "rolling" on a limited-time banner), players are still playing randomness that they are used to in other games in the Diablo II Resurrected Ladder Items same manner. In many ways this is how it's like the Diablo game has been working towards these sorts of mechanics since its beginnings, such as Maddy Myers wrote a few weeks back.

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Two different Battle Passes each with different rewards, each exclusive to your character (and not your overall roster) and too many different currencies for a typical player to keep track of, Diablo 2 Resurrected 's economy reads like a mobile marketplace monstrosity.