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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by oefrha on Sunday June 05, 2022 @11:54AM (#31632093)
It's not like you can get the "best" seasonal gear in D3 (which is paid upfront) without a ridiculous amount of grind. Well, not as ridiculous as 10 years, but still.

Without knowing how money scales in this game it's very hard to judge the 10 years / 110k figure. In D3 sometimes you're grinding exponentially for 1% or even 0.1% improvements at a time, and you don't have to.

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by hw on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:25PM (#31632380)
Time is money. Paying for progress or items provides accessibility to that experience for people who just dont have the time to grind.
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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by LeoNatan25 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:33PM (#31632470)
Don’t play the “accessibility” nonsense argument with us old-time gamers. You know what I could have done in D3 to skip the grind, if I wanted to? Use cheats or trainers or a save file from the internets, in a single player game, for which I paid for. Not this nonsense today, where even single player games are gated behind “sErViCeS” backend to prevent cheating, aka DRM for the payed DLC stuff, that is already on disk downloaded, in a single player games. Please stop.
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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by oefrha on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:06PM (#31633393)
D3 is in fact not very single player for all but the most casual players who stop at finishing the story solo.
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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by noirbot on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:38PM (#31633663)
Really? I did plenty of pushing into high-tier rifts solo in D3. It's definitely more stable and reliable with multiple people, but I did plenty of grinding solo and have a good time.
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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by hnxs on Sunday June 05, 2022 @04:41PM (#31634631)
How?
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