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Diablo Immortal is a huge success making 1 million dollars a day on average, despite being the worst user rated game in Metacritic history
manfestival
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Not surprised at all and people shouldn't be either
MiguelItUp
Member
Exactly. I'm still not sure why people were so shocked by it. This has been the norm for mobile F2Ps for awhile. If it's a popular or well known IP, it's inevitable.
ChorizoPicozo
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ChorizoPicozo
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Aguero9320
Member
I’ve been playing this a bit while travelling on my iPad - seems good to me. Haven’t spent and won’t spend a penny on it, but enjoyed what I’ve played so far.
Revolutionary
Member
Not surprised. It's not a bad game, but the monetization is quite aggressive. That said, it's easy to play through the game without spending a dime. I played through the story, had a good time, and paid a grand total of $0. /shrug
Edit: Also, I don't think there was ever a time when Metacritic User Reviews meant anything.
Edit: Also, I don't think there was ever a time when Metacritic User Reviews meant anything.
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MiguelItUp
Member
It's honestly one of the very few I bothered with cause it's Diablo, and yeah, I agree. The game is actually very well made, all aggressive monetization aside. You can also play it, not spend a dime, and it's still enjoyable.
Exactly, the review scores that plummet are all the result of review bombs anyway.
DeltaPolarBear
Member
You might as well say "Drug trafficking is a huge success despite every government fighting against it".
It is gambling. It makes money. We know this. The fact that gambling makes money doesn't invalidate people who don't want it in games. And just because we couldn't stop it making money doesnm't mean we should stop fighting against it.
It is pretty much the same thing with Konami making money hand over fist with their gambling pivot. It is not our job to cheer for companies making money when they are not making the product we want anymore.
It is gambling. It makes money. We know this. The fact that gambling makes money doesn't invalidate people who don't want it in games. And just because we couldn't stop it making money doesnm't mean we should stop fighting against it.
It is pretty much the same thing with Konami making money hand over fist with their gambling pivot. It is not our job to cheer for companies making money when they are not making the product we want anymore.
Silver Wattle
Gold Member
Weird thread, some kind of brag about a shit games horrific monetization/gambling being financially successful? Ok OP.
Scotty W
Banned
Great example of the blindness of internet gaming culture. They allow themselves to believe that money is not the most important thing to a company and are unaware that several billion people went online recently because they got a smartphone. You think they are foolish to make money off that market? You expect them not to monetize this game because “that’s immoral!”? You are blind, and unacquainted with reality.
kiphalfton
Member
The average person is a dumb fuck. Not like us enlightened few on online forums.
dreamcastluvr
Member
Same thing happened with other stinkers like GTA Trilogy, Black Ops Cold War, Aliens Colonial Marines, (et al); they get review-bombed, but your average Joe Gamer doesn't give a shit about reviews or passionate fans' boycotts and will continue to throw money at them. The video game industry's own McDonalds Effect.
daywarf
Member
f-word funny
saturnalian
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justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
Exploiting people works.
Bobby Kotick knows that gamers in general are a bunch of whiny cunts that fall in line the moment they dangle another distraction in front of them. No matter how much impotent rage they muster over Diablo Immortal, they’re running around with their Dragonflight preorder mount in World of Warcraft, and they‘re salivating over every Diablo IV nugget. Why should they behave in any other way when Blizzard’s financials continue to improve?
OldBoyGamer
Banned
The mobile game market is a very different beast to console and pc gaming tbf. (Heck there’s a lot of difference between console and PC gamers) Mobile gamers are a completely different demographic. There is some cross over of course, but the playing and paying habits are very different.
The interesting thing will be if they can sustain this earn rate. The Diablo name carries a lot of weight and the game has made a big splash in terms of SM traffic. I Can imagine millions of people watched negative content and thought ‘I gotta try this shit for myself’. And when they played the game, my understanding is that the core game itself is fantastic, so they found a brilliant game!
Convert those millions into a an average of 5% conversion rate and you’ve got £1M a day. (Example economics of course)
Whether they can sustain or grow that will be interesting to see
The interesting thing will be if they can sustain this earn rate. The Diablo name carries a lot of weight and the game has made a big splash in terms of SM traffic. I Can imagine millions of people watched negative content and thought ‘I gotta try this shit for myself’. And when they played the game, my understanding is that the core game itself is fantastic, so they found a brilliant game!
Convert those millions into a an average of 5% conversion rate and you’ve got £1M a day. (Example economics of course)
Whether they can sustain or grow that will be interesting to see
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NiiloPielinen
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Kiya's Guard
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I wonder how much of the market is funded by asian consumers. In other words, i would like to see info on the western market about these kind of games. But yeah, good job Kotick
Estimates for diablo : https://appmagic.rocks/google-play/diablo-immortal/com.blizzard.diablo.immortal
Estimates for mobile : https://www.statista.com/statistics/256673/global-mobile-game-revenue-by-region/
Still waiting to know if this game will ever come out in China.
Kiya's Guard
Member
Thanks, didn't know these two sites. Wow, usa is spending way more than I expected, nothing about Europe though. And lol, didn't know immortal hasn't released in china yet.
I watch some videos of the state of mobile gaming every now and then (interested and even download some games, but I never get to play them lol), and I know China has been limiting the green passes for games a lot (the process for the developers is so damn complicated there), so I guess that's the reason why.
JimmyRustler
Member
Our hobby has completely been overrun by the mob... And there is no way back.
Who'd think that one day we can look back with nostalgia at the days where we were shunned as geeks by everyone else...
Games made by geeks for the geeks. Today it's games made by businessman for the mob.
Who'd think that one day we can look back with nostalgia at the days where we were shunned as geeks by everyone else...
Games made by geeks for the geeks. Today it's games made by businessman for the mob.
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I played it, I enjoyed it. This is a fun experience, and it could be so much more. That core feeling of fun Diablo is there. However that feeling slowly gets snowed under negative factors. I stopped playing not because it isn't fun, but because it felt short lived and not real. Hard to explain. With Diablo 4 coming out within the next year, I just crave a true full on Diablo experience. I don't want to burn my self out on immortal.
The game is fun and it's predatory like most other Asian based mobile games. Of course it's making money, the test will be how it's doing once people hit that Hell level 3 pay wall and second battle pass, or renewal.
It's an incredible mobile game, almost magic. But the PC client is as they say 'beta'. If this games continues making this kind of bank for a year, that's pretty crazy and bad for non-mobile gamers. Dangerous times.
The game is fun and it's predatory like most other Asian based mobile games. Of course it's making money, the test will be how it's doing once people hit that Hell level 3 pay wall and second battle pass, or renewal.
It's an incredible mobile game, almost magic. But the PC client is as they say 'beta'. If this games continues making this kind of bank for a year, that's pretty crazy and bad for non-mobile gamers. Dangerous times.
Draugoth
Gold Member
Seems like Immortal came to stay:
www.gamesindustry.biz
Diablo Immortal's first month earnings near $50m
Blizzard's mobile version of Diablo is off to a solid start; despite complaints around its monetisation, the developer …
www.gamesindustry.biz
ChuckeRearmed
Member
How big was COD mobile?
ChuckeRearmed
Member
The fun thing is that the game hasn't launched in China due to stupid reason. Imagine those numbers...
Javthusiast
Banned
SirKicksalot
Member
Second largest launch ever after Pokemon GO - 150 million downloads and $54 million.
Well deserved. And it's a much friendlier game for F2P.
PaddyOCanager
Member
Cool, now that you have your money pig please make Diablo 4 good.
levyjl1988
Banned
At this point it is better to gamble at a casino than play a gotcha game on mobile. Mobile games give you nothing in return, at least with a casino you have at least a chance of winning. The problems with casinos is that they don’t keep a sense of progression or have any story or character elements.
When they are done and happy with the investment they will shut down the servers and you lose everything you sunk your time and money on.
When they are done and happy with the investment they will shut down the servers and you lose everything you sunk your time and money on.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Elder Legend
Banned
I got too Paragon 40 completely free to play without spending a dime. And then when I hit max level battle pass which was level 40 I bought the most expensive one for $15. The way I look at it is, I've spent dozens or hours for free playing the game and all the gems and loot was self earned. I also ended up in the top hundred for solo challenge leaderboard via complete free 2 play which i made me feel good.
So I felt at that point it was justifiable enough to spend the money because I did enjoy my time. I really spent it for the Battle Pass cosmetic and the fact that the season was ending in 2 days. Excited too see what they bring to next season.
So I felt at that point it was justifiable enough to spend the money because I did enjoy my time. I really spent it for the Battle Pass cosmetic and the fact that the season was ending in 2 days. Excited too see what they bring to next season.
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The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Metacritic score is nothing but a warring tool.
Werewolfgrandma
Banned
Silly comparison since there is zero ptw in Apex
rabbity-thing
Member
If you ask me, this sounds like a feather for Apex's cap.
ClosBSAS
Member
Oh really? I thought these numbers were cause of china..holy shit...once that market kicks in...