Quin69 mocks Diablo IV\u2019s \u201cfree\u201d Season Pass Blizzard Entertainment\/Quin69It\u2019d be an understatement to say that Blizzard\u2019s been in hot water for the past few years. Now, Twitch streamer Quin69 has lambasted Blizzard for their handling of the Diablo 4 Season Pass. It\u2019s been really hard for Blizzard to get a win lately, with Diablo Immortal being the latest PR disaster for the company. Its pay-to-win monetization got a lot of flak from players worldwide. Streamer Quin69 proved just how ridiculous Diablo Immortal\u2019s monetization is by putting over 10 grand into the end game loot grind only to still not get what he\u2019s looking for. Diablo 4 gets a Season Pass However, Diablo 4 may be different. The 60 dollar price tag on the title will hopefully mean less egregious monetization in comparison to Diablo Immortal\u2019s free-to-play business model. But, for Quin69, the language used in Diablo IV\u2019s latest quarterly development update isn\u2019t giving him a whole lot of faith in Blizzard. \u201cWhat the f*** is this, dude?\u201d just about sums up Quin\u2019s opinion on Blizzard\u2019s language about the Diablo IV Season Pass. He sarcastically mocks Blizzard, saying that we get free content with the 60 dollar purchase price. \u201cGaming in 2022\u201d, he mocks. Is there hope for Blizzard yet? As for where the material he\u2019s reading is from, it\u2019s in a massive Diablo IV development update released on August 18, 2022. It was revealed in this update that Diablo IV will have a cosmetic shop alongside battle pass rewards, although it won\u2019t have the same pay-to-win mechanics present in Diablo Immortal. At least, according to Kegan Clark, Diablo IV\u2019s director of product. Blizzard\u2019s business model here is in-line with battle passes in other games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty: Warzone. It offers \u201cpremium currency\u201d and greater rewards for paying players, while also offering smaller rewards in a designated free path. It\u2019s fair to expect the Diablo IV Season Pass to look something like this, and it\u2019s a tried-and-true business model for live service games. There\u2019s a free path that provides fairly meager and inconsistent rewards, alongside a premium path that promises greater rewards. It\u2019s hard to say what Diablo IV\u2019s rewards will be, but, going off of what\u2019s in Blizzard\u2019s development update, these rewards should be mostly cosmetic. While this is a relief for hardcore Diablo fans, Quin69\u2019s comments point to an industry that has widely accepted the practice of asking for more and more money from their players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Quin69 mocks Diablo IV\u2019s \u201cfree\u201d Season Pass Blizzard Entertainment\/Quin69It\u2019d be an understatement to say that Blizzard\u2019s been in hot water for the past few years. Now, Twitch streamer Quin69 has lambasted Blizzard for their handling of the Diablo 4 Season Pass. It\u2019s been really hard for Blizzard to get a win lately, with Diablo Immortal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}