New Diablo 4 Details About Loot System Revealed

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Diablo 4 Will Have Microtransactions


In entirely unsurprising news, Blizzard has officially confirmed that the upcoming ARPG Diablo 4 will be monetized. While Diablo 4 won't be revisiting the controversial days of Diablo 3's auction house, or anything else of that severity, it does sound like Diablo 4 will be adopting some modern-day monetization practices. Blizzard states that it's still very early and that monetization plans are in flux, but does make clear that Diablo 4 will not sell power.

Twitch streamer Quin69 got the question answered at BlizzCon 2019, speaking with Diablo 4 lead game designer Joe Shely. Shely confirmed Blizzard's product plans in a simple statement. Diablo 4 will have a purchasable base game like previous Diablo releases. It will also have expansions, also akin to all previous Diablo releases. And finally, Shely confirms that, "You also will be able to acquire cosmetics in the game." Given the context of this sentence, "acquire" can be assumed to imply "purchase."

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Quin69 asks a followup question, questioning whether Shely is specifically referring to in-game microtransactions. Shely says that while Diablo 4 is still early in development, microtransactions would be accurate. Shely later characterizes this by saying that microtransactions are "an opportunity to have more options available than you would otherwise." Given the modern popularity of cosmetic purchases, it's hard to argue that they wouldn't be popular even if the Diablo franchise has never featured them before.
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