Blizzard really, really wants you to know Diablo 4 isn't going to add any pay-to-win ﷽elements. In fact, the ARPG's lead developers are s🤡o keen on making that point clear that they repeated it no less than six times during a recent livestream.
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), director of community Adam Fletcher, game director Joe Shely, and associate game director Joseph Piepiora each responded to a recent influx of questions about whether the game could go pay-to-win with a decisive, "yeah, no." (That was Shely, verbatim.)"We♊ do want to confirm that we did talk about and address the questions we've been seeing a lot in the community related to pay for power that have been swirling around; people talking about 'are you guys planning on adding pay for power in Diablo 4,' and I know that, we talked about it in the beginning, we are not planning on adding pay for power in Dℱiablo 4," .
For some context, the YouTube channel recently shared a video titled 'Blizzard's latest survey is VERY concerning.' The crux of the video is a reportedly leaked, although as yet unverified, Blizzard survey asking for feedback on potential new features coming in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Diablo 4's Vessel of Hatred expansion. The survey reportedly detailed four paid tiers priced at $50, $70, $80, and $100, respectively, as well as benefits for pꦍlayers buying into the higher tiers, incl꧒uding a bigger stash and early access to new Uniques and Legendary powers.
However, the developers addressed these and related concerns at several point🔯s in the recent livestream.
"Again, we have no plans to add pay for po🔯wer to Diablo 4," said Shely.
"There's♈ no plans to sel⭕l power in Diablo 4," added Piepiora.
Neither the survey, the Bellular News video, no🌼r any rel😼ated media coverage were mentioned specifically, but it's once again obvious that Blizzard intends to avoid any perception of pay-to-win in Diablo 4. Whether that line in the sand sticks around is always going to be an unknown in a live service game, but it should be reassuring to see that the game's leads don't seem to be budging an inch on the issue.
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